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Yin Y, Zeng S, Xiao C, Fan P, Shin DJ, Kim KJ, Nam H, Ma Q, Ma H, Zhu W, Kim T, Lee JY, Wang Y. Hybridized local and charge transfer dendrimers with near-unity exciton utilization for enabling high-efficiency solution-processed hyperfluorescent OLEDs. MATERIALS HORIZONS 2024; 11:1741-1751. [PMID: 38288665 DOI: 10.1039/d3mh01860a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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Achieving both high emission efficiency and exciton utilization efficiency (ηS) in hot exciton materials is still a formidable task. Herein, a proof-of-concept design for improving ηS in hot exciton materials is proposed via elaborate regulation of singlet-triplet energy difference, leading to an additional thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) process. Two novel dendrimers, named D-TTT-H and D-TTT-tBu, were prepared and characterized, in which diphenylamine derivatives were used as a donor moiety and tri(triazolo)triazine (TTT) as an acceptor fragment. Compounds D-TTT-H and D-TTT-tBu showed an intense green color with an emission efficiency of approximately 80% in solution. Impressively, both dendrimers simultaneously exhibited a hot exciton process and TADF characteristic in the solid state, as was demonstrated via theoretical calculation, transient photoluminescence, magneto-electroluminescence and transient electroluminescence measurements, thus achieving almost unity ηS. A solution processable organic light-emitting diode (OLED) employing the dendrimer as a dopant represents the best performance with the highest luminance of 15090 cd m-2 and a maximum external quantum efficiency (EQEmax) of 11.96%. Moreover, using D-TTT-H as a sensitizer, an EQEmax of 30.88%, 24.08% and 14.33% were achieved for green, orange and red solution-processed OLEDs, respectively. This research paves a new avenue to construct a fluorescent molecule with high ηS for efficient and stable OLEDs.
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- Yixiao Yin
- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Light-Electricity-Heat Energy-Converting Materials and Applications, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China.
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Light-Electricity-Heat Energy-Converting Materials and Applications, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China.
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Light-Electricity-Heat Energy-Converting Materials and Applications, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China.
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Light-Electricity-Heat Energy-Converting Materials and Applications, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China.
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University 2066, Seobu-ro, Jangan-gu, Gyeonggi, Suwon 14169, Korea.
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- Department of Information Display, Hongik University, 04066, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Information Display, Hongik University, 04066, Seoul, Korea
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- Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing 211816, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing 211816, China.
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Light-Electricity-Heat Energy-Converting Materials and Applications, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China.
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- Department of Information Display, Hongik University, 04066, Seoul, Korea
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Hongik University, Sejong, 30016, Korea.
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University 2066, Seobu-ro, Jangan-gu, Gyeonggi, Suwon 14169, Korea.
- SKKU Institute of Energy Science and Technology, Sungkyunkwan University 2066, Seobu-ro, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi, 16419, Korea
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Light-Electricity-Heat Energy-Converting Materials and Applications, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China.
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Blazevicius D, Grigalevicius S. A Review of Benzophenone-Based Derivatives for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 14:356. [PMID: 38392729 PMCID: PMC10892487 DOI: 10.3390/nano14040356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2024] [Revised: 02/06/2024] [Accepted: 02/09/2024] [Indexed: 02/24/2024]
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Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have garnered considerable attention in academic and industrial circles due to their potential applications in flat-panel displays and solid-state lighting technologies, leveraging the advantages offered by organic electroactive derivatives over their inorganic counterparts. The thin and flexible design of OLEDs enables the development of innovative lighting solutions, facilitating the creation of customizable and contoured lighting panels. Among the diverse electroactive components employed in the molecular design of OLED materials, the benzophenone core has attracted much attention as a fragment for the synthesis of organic semiconductors. On the other hand, benzophenone also functions as a classical phosphor with high intersystem crossing efficiency. This characteristic makes it a compelling candidate for effective reverse intersystem crossing, with potential in leading to the development of thermally activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) emitters. These emitting materials witnessed a pronounced interest in recent years due to their incorporation in metal-free electroactive frameworks and the capability to convert triplet excitons into emissive singlet excitons through reverse intersystem crossing (RISC), consequently achieving exceptionally high external quantum efficiencies (EQEs). This review article comprehensively overviews the synthetic pathways, thermal characteristics, electrochemical behaviour, and photophysical properties of derivatives based on benzophenone. Furthermore, we explore their applications in OLED devices, both as host materials and emitters, shedding light on the promising opportunities that benzophenone-based compounds present in advancing OLED technology.
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- Dovydas Blazevicius
- Department of Polymer Chemistry and Technology, Kaunas University of Technology, Radvilenu Plentas 19, LT50254 Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Polymer Chemistry and Technology, Kaunas University of Technology, Radvilenu Plentas 19, LT50254 Kaunas, Lithuania
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Kumar K. Charge transporting and thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials for OLED applications. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:3711-3754. [PMID: 38221898 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp03214k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2024]
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The design and synthesis of effective charge transporting (CT) and thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials are in high demand to obtain high-performing OLED devices. Recently, the significant development in the field of OLEDs has led to the creation of numerous charge transporting and TADF materials with diverse structures. To further improve the device performance, a better understanding of the structural characteristics and structure-property relationships of these materials is essential. Moreover, to enhance the efficiency of OLEDs, all the electrogenerated excitons should be constrained in EMLs. The TADF mechanism can theoretically register 100% IQE through a potent up-conversion method from non-radiative triplet excitons to radiative singlet excitons. In this review, the structural importance, classification, physical properties, and electroluminescence data of some recent charge transporting and TADF materials are summarized and discussed. Moreover, their molecular structural dependence on functional groups and linkers is classified, which can enhance their charge transporting or emitting ability. To offer a potential roadmap for the further development of charge transporting and TADF materials, it is hoped that this study will encourage researchers to acknowledge their important role in OLEDs.
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- Krishan Kumar
- School of Chemical Sciences, IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh 175075, India.
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Hao XL, Ren AM, Zhou L, Zhang H. Theoretical Research and Photodynamic Simulation of Aggregation-Induced Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:9771-9780. [PMID: 37948560 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c06145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
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The discovery and utilization of pure organic thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials provide a major breakthrough in obtaining high-performance and low-cost organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). In spite of recent research progress in TADF emitters, highly efficient and stable TADF emitters in high-concentration solutions and in the solid state have been rarely reported, and most of them suffer from aggregation-induced quenching (ACQ). To resolve this issue, the aggregation-induced delayed fluorescence (AIDF) mechanism was studied in depth by the simulation of excited-state dynamic processes, and the effect of geometric modifications on optical properties was minutely investigated based on molecular modeling. TD-DFT calculations demonstrate that it is the key point for the transformation between prompt fluorescence and TADF to effectively regulate singlet-triplet energy difference and electron-vibration coupling by the aggregation effect. Then, excellent green and red TADF materials with very small singlet-triplet energy differences of 0.05 and 0.06 eV, high TADF quantum yields up to 57.53% and 39.19%, and suitable fluorescence lifetimes of 0.99 and 1.67 us, respectively, were designed and obtained, which demonstrate the potential application of these two TADF materials in OLEDs.
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- Xue-Li Hao
- State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, People's Republic of China
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- Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, People's Republic of China
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Hao XL, Ren AM, Zhou L. Research and Design of Aggregation-Regulated Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials for Time-Resolved Two-Photon Excited Fluorescence Imaging and Biological Monitoring. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:10309-10317. [PMID: 37943283 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2023]
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Exploring the nature of aggregation-regulated thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) and proposing effective design strategies for two-photon excited TADF materials for time-resolved biological imaging and monitoring are urgent and encouraging. In this work, it is found that the aggregation effect not only plays an important role in decreasing the internal conversion decay rate but also strongly influences the singlet-triplet excited-state energy difference as well as the intersystem crossing rate. It is proposed that the transformation from prompt fluorescence materials to long lifetime TADF or phosphorescence materials can be accomplished by regulating the position of substituent groups, which provides an effective method to design and develop long afterglow materials. Then, a high-performance TADF compound with a large two-photon absorption cross section in the biological window (112 GM/775 nm), high TADF efficiency (nearly 100%), and long fluorescence lifetime (50.75 μs) has been designed, which demonstrates the potential application in time-resolved two-photon excited fluorescence imaging and biological detection.
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- Xue-Li Hao
- State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, People's Republic of China
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- Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, People's Republic of China
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Zhang K, Wang X, Chang Y, Wu Y, Wang S, Wang L. Carbazole-Decorated Organoboron Emitters with Low-Lying HOMO Levels for Solution-Processed Narrowband Blue Hyperfluorescence OLED Devices. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202313084. [PMID: 37775994 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202313084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2023] [Revised: 09/28/2023] [Accepted: 09/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/01/2023]
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The hyperfluorescence has drawn great attention in achieving efficient narrowband emitting devices based on multiple resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescence (MR-TADF) emitters. However, achieving efficient solution-processed pure blue hyperfluorescence devices is still a challenge, due to the unbalanced charge transport and serious exciton quenching caused by that the holes are easily trapped on the high-lying HOMO (the highest occupied molecular orbital) level of traditional diphenylamine-decorated emitters. Here, we developed two narrowband blue organoboron emitters with low-lying HOMO levels by decorating the MR-TADF core with weakly electron-donating carbazoles, which could suppress the hole trapping effect by reducing the hole traps between host and MR-TADF emitter from deep (0.40 eV) to shallow (0.14/0.20 eV) ones for facilitating hole transport and exciton formation, as well as avoiding exciton quenching. And the large dihedral angle between the carbazole and MR-TADF core makes the carbazole act as a steric hindrance to inhibit molecular aggregation. Accordingly, the optimized solution-processed pure blue hyperfluorescence devices simultaneously realize record external quantum efficiency of 29.2 %, narrowband emission with a full-width at half-maximum of 16.6 nm, and pure blue color with CIE coordinates of (0.139, 0.189), which is the best result for the solution-processed organic light-emitting diodes based on MR-TADF emitters.
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- Kaiyuan Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 130022, Changchun, P. R. China
- School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, 230026, Hefei, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 130022, Changchun, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 130022, Changchun, P. R. China
- School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, 230026, Hefei, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 130022, Changchun, P. R. China
- School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, 230026, Hefei, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 130022, Changchun, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 130022, Changchun, P. R. China
- School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, 230026, Hefei, P. R. China
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Hojo R, Bergmann K, Elgadi SA, Mayder DM, Emmanuel MA, Oderinde MS, Hudson ZM. Imidazophenothiazine-Based Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials with Ultra-Long-Lived Excited States for Energy Transfer Photocatalysis. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:18366-18381. [PMID: 37556344 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c04132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/11/2023]
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Triplet-triplet energy transfer (EnT) is a powerful activation pathway in photocatalysis that unlocks new organic transformations and improves the sustainability of organic synthesis. Many current examples, however, still rely on platinum-group metal complexes as photosensitizers, with associated high costs and environmental impacts. Photosensitizers that exhibit thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) are attractive fully organic alternatives in EnT photocatalysis. However, TADF photocatalysts incorporating heavy atoms remain rare, despite their utility in inducing efficient spin-orbit-coupling, intersystem-crossing, and consequently a high triplet population. Here, we describe the synthesis of imidazo-phenothiazine (IPTZ), a sulfur-containing heterocycle with a locked planar structure and a shallow LUMO level. This acceptor is used to prepare seven TADF-active photocatalysts with triplet energies up to 63.9 kcal mol-1. We show that sulfur incorporation improves spin-orbit coupling and increases triplet lifetimes up to 3.64 ms, while also allowing for tuning of photophysical properties via oxidation at the sulfur atom. These IPTZ materials are applied as photocatalysts in five seminal EnT reactions: [2 + 2] cycloaddition, the disulfide-ene reaction, and Ni-mediated C-O and C-N cross-coupling to afford etherification, esterification, and amination products, outcompeting the industry-standard TADF photocatalyst 2CzPN in four of the five studied scenarios. Detailed photophysical and theoretical studies are used to understand structure-activity relationships and to demonstrate the key role of the heavy atom effect in the design of TADF materials with superior photocatalytic performance.
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- Ryoga Hojo
- Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Chemical Process Development, Bristol Myers Squibb Company, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, United States
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- Department of Discovery Synthesis, Bristol Myers Squibb Research and Early Development, 3551 Lawrenceville Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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Wu ZL, Lv X, Meng LY, Chen XL, Lu CZ. Tröger's Base-Derived Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Dopant for Efficient Deep-Blue Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. Molecules 2023; 28:4832. [PMID: 37375387 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28124832] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2023] [Revised: 06/02/2023] [Accepted: 06/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
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The development of efficient deep-blue emitters with thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) properties is a highly significant but challenging task in the field of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) applications. Herein, we report the design and synthesis of two new 4,10-dimethyl-6H,12H-5,11-methanodibenzo[b,f][1,5]diazocine (TB)-derived TADF emitters, TB-BP-DMAC and TB-DMAC, which feature distinct benzophenone (BP)-derived acceptors but share the same dimethylacridin (DMAC) donors. Our comparative study reveals that the amide acceptor in TB-DMAC exhibits a significantly weaker electron-withdrawing ability in comparison to that of the typical benzophenone acceptor employed in TB-BP-DMAC. This disparity not only causes a noticeable blue shift in the emission from green to deep blue but also enhances the emission efficiency and the reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) process. As a result, TB-DMAC emits efficient deep-blue delay fluorescence with a photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) of 50.4% and a short lifetime of 2.28 μs in doped film. The doped and non-doped OLEDs based on TB-DMAC display efficient deep-blue electroluminescence with spectral peaks at 449 and 453 nm and maximum external quantum efficiencies (EQEs) of 6.1% and 5.7%, respectively. These findings indicate that substituted amide acceptors are a viable option for the design of high-performance deep-blue TADF materials.
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- Ze-Ling Wu
- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China
- Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China, Fuzhou 350108, China
- Xiamen Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Photoelectric Functional Materials, Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China
- Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China, Fuzhou 350108, China
- Xiamen Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Photoelectric Functional Materials, Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China
- Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China, Fuzhou 350108, China
- Xiamen Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Photoelectric Functional Materials, Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China
- Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China, Fuzhou 350108, China
- Xiamen Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Photoelectric Functional Materials, Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China
- Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China, Fuzhou 350108, China
- Xiamen Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Photoelectric Functional Materials, Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Primrose WL, Mayder DM, Hojo R, Hudson ZM. Dibenzodipyridophenazines with Dendritic Electron Donors Exhibiting Deep-Red Emission and Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence. J Org Chem 2023; 88:4224-4233. [PMID: 36920272 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.2c02774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/16/2023]
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The development of deep-red thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters is important for applications such as organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and biological imaging. Design strategies for red-shifting emission include synthesizing rigid acceptor cores to limit nonradiative decay and employing strong electron-donating groups. In this work, three novel luminescent donor-acceptor compounds based on the dibenzo[a,c]dipyrido[3,2-h:20-30-j]-phenazine-12-yl (BPPZ) acceptor were prepared using dendritic carbazole-based donors 3,3″,6,6″-tetramethoxy-9'H-9,3':6',9″-tercarbazole (TMTC), N3,N3,N6,N6-tetra-p-tolyl-9H-carbazole-3,6-diamine (TTAC), and N3,N3,N6,N6-tetrakis(4-methoxyphenyl)-9H-carbazole-3,6-diamine (TMAC). Here, dimethoxycarbazole, ditolylamine, and bis(4-methoxyphenyl)amine were introduced at the 3,6-positions of carbazole to increase the strength of these donors and induce long-wavelength emission. Substituent effects were investigated with experiments and theoretical calculations. The emission maxima of these materials in toluene were found to be 562, 658, and 680 nm for BPPZ-2TMTC, BPPZ-2TTAC, and BPPZ-2TMAC, respectively, highlighting the exceptional strength of the TMAC donor, which pushes the emission into the deep-red region of the visible spectrum as well as into the biological transparency window (650-1350 nm). Long-lived emission lifetimes were observed in each emitter due to TADF in BPPZ-2TMC and BPPZ-2TTAC, as well as room-temperature phosphorescence in BPPZ-2TMAC. Overall, this work showcases deep-red emissive dendritic donor-acceptor materials which have potential as bioimaging agents with emission in the biological transparency window.
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- William L Primrose
- Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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Lee S, Lee Y, Lee K, Lee S, Wang KK, Han WS. Effect of bulkiness on the triplet state of carbazole-benzophenone-based dyad systems. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2022.114347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Hao XL, Ren AM, Zhou L. Research and Design of Aggregation-Induced Phosphorescent Materials for Time-Resolved Two-Photon Excited Luminescence Imaging. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:11745-11752. [PMID: 36516071 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c03338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Pure organic two-photon excited room temperature phosphorescent (RTP) materials have attracted great attention for time-resolved imaging due to their long emission lifetime and high resolution. The materials with an aromatic carbonyl group exhibit aggregation-induced emission (AIE) and RTP characteristics simultaneously. Here, we deeply explored the nature of aggregation-induced phosphorescence (AIP), especially the relationship between molecular configuration and optical properties. It was found that aggregation effect can suppress geometrical vibrations and regulate energy difference between S1 and T1. The aromatic carbonyl group plays significant roles in changing electronic configuration, resulting in large Stokes shift and spin-orbit coupling. It also leads to small transition dipole moment, decreasing two-photon absorption cross section and radiative decay rate. To improve two-photon absorption properties, we further designed a π-conjugated compound with large two-photon absorption cross section in the biological window (36.40 GM/656 nm) and AIP characteristics, which is a potential material in the application of time-resolved two-photon excited imaging.
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- Xue-Li Hao
- State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, People's Republic of China
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- Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, People's Republic of China
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Zhou J, Wang S, Chen X, Fan J, Wang Y. Imidazolopyrazine based thermally activated delayed fluorescence: Synthesis, property and the application for solution-processed OLEDs. Tetrahedron 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2022.133126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Song X, Peng L, Chen W, Gao Y, Fang W, Cui G. Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence of a Dinuclear Platinum(II) Compound: Mechanism and Roles of an Upper Triplet State. Chemistry 2022; 28:e202201782. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.202201782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Xiu‐Fang Song
- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry Ministry of Education, Chemistry College Beijing Normal University Beijing 100875 P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry Ministry of Education, Chemistry College Beijing Normal University Beijing 100875 P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry Ministry of Education, Chemistry College Beijing Normal University Beijing 100875 P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry Ministry of Education, Chemistry College Beijing Normal University Beijing 100875 P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry Ministry of Education, Chemistry College Beijing Normal University Beijing 100875 P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry Ministry of Education, Chemistry College Beijing Normal University Beijing 100875 P.R. China
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Sun D, Saxena R, Fan X, Athanasopoulos S, Duda E, Zhang M, Bagnich S, Zhang X, Zysman‐Colman E, Köhler A. Regiochemistry of Donor Dendrons Controls the Performance of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Dendrimer Emitters for High Efficiency Solution-Processed Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2022; 9:e2201470. [PMID: 35470593 PMCID: PMC9284163 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202201470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The potential of dendrimers exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) as emitters in solution-processed organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) has to date not yet been realized. This in part is due to a poor understanding of the structure-property relationship in dendrimers where reports of detailed photophysical characterization and mechanism studies are lacking. In this report, using absorption and solvatochromic photoluminescence studies in solution, the origin and character of the lowest excited electronic states in dendrimers with multiple dendritic electron-donating moieties connected to a central electron-withdrawing core via a para- or a meta-phenylene bridge is probed. Characterization of host-free OLEDs reveals the superiority of meta-linked dendrimers as compared to the already reported para-analogue. Comparative temperature-dependent time-resolved solid-state photoluminescence measurements and quantum chemical studies explore the effect of the substitution mode on the TADF properties and the reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) mechanism, respectively. For TADF dendrimers with similarly small ∆EST , it is observed that RISC can be enhanced by the regiochemistry of the donor dendrons due to control of the reorganization energies, which is a heretofore unexploited strategy that is distinct from the involvement of intermediate triplet states through a nonadiabatic (vibronic) coupling with the lowest singlet charge transfer state.
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- Dianming Sun
- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon‐Based Functional Materials & DevicesJoint International Research Laboratory of Carbon‐Based Functional Materials and DevicesSoochow UniversitySuzhouJiangsu215123P. R. China
- Organic Semiconductor CentreEaStCHEM School of ChemistryUniversity of St AndrewsSt Andrews KY16 9STUK
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- Soft Matter OptoelectronicsSoft Matter Optoelectronics and Bavarian Polymer Institute (BPI)University of BayreuthUniversitätsstraße 3095447BayreuthGermany
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon‐Based Functional Materials & DevicesJoint International Research Laboratory of Carbon‐Based Functional Materials and DevicesSoochow UniversitySuzhouJiangsu215123P. R. China
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- Departamento de FísicaUniversidad Carlos III de MadridAvenida Universidad 30, 28911 LeganésMadridSpain
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- Soft Matter OptoelectronicsSoft Matter Optoelectronics and Bavarian Polymer Institute (BPI)University of BayreuthUniversitätsstraße 3095447BayreuthGermany
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon‐Based Functional Materials & DevicesJoint International Research Laboratory of Carbon‐Based Functional Materials and DevicesSoochow UniversitySuzhouJiangsu215123P. R. China
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- Soft Matter OptoelectronicsSoft Matter Optoelectronics and Bavarian Polymer Institute (BPI)University of BayreuthUniversitätsstraße 3095447BayreuthGermany
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon‐Based Functional Materials & DevicesJoint International Research Laboratory of Carbon‐Based Functional Materials and DevicesSoochow UniversitySuzhouJiangsu215123P. R. China
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- Organic Semiconductor CentreEaStCHEM School of ChemistryUniversity of St AndrewsSt Andrews KY16 9STUK
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- Soft Matter OptoelectronicsSoft Matter Optoelectronics and Bavarian Polymer Institute (BPI)University of BayreuthUniversitätsstraße 3095447BayreuthGermany
- Bayreuth Institute of Macromolecular Research (BIMF)University of BayreuthUniversitätstraße 3095447BayreuthGermany
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Sun D, Duda E, Fan X, Saxena R, Zhang M, Bagnich S, Zhang X, Köhler A, Zysman-Colman E. Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Dendrimers that Underpin High-Efficiency Host-Free Solution-Processed Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2022; 34:e2110344. [PMID: 35364621 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202110344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2021] [Revised: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The development of high-performance solution-processed organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) remains a challenge. An effective solution, highlighted in this work, is to use highly efficient thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) dendrimers as emitters. Here, the design, synthesis, density functional theory (DFT) modeling, and photophysics of three triazine-based dendrimers, tBuCz2pTRZ, tBuCz2mTRZ, and tBuCz2m2pTRZ, is reported, which resolve the conflicting requirements of achieving simultaneously a small ΔEST and a large oscillator strength by incorporating both meta- and para-connected donor dendrons about a central triazine acceptor. The solution-processed OLED containing a host-free emitting layer exhibits an excellent maximum external quantum efficiency (EQEmax ) of 28.7%, a current efficiency of 98.8 cd A-1 , and a power efficiency of 91.3 lm W-1 . The device emits with an electroluminescence maximum, λEL , of 540 nm and Commission International de l'Éclairage (CIE) color coordinates of (0.37, 0.57). This represents the most efficient host-free solution-processed OLED reported to date. Further optimization directed at improving the charge balance within the device results in an emissive layer containing 30 wt% OXD-7, which leads to an OLED with the similar EQEmax of 28.4% but showing a significantly improved efficiency rolloff where the EQE remains high at 22.7% at a luminance of 500 cd m-2 .
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- Dianming Sun
- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Joint International Research Laboratory of Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, P. R. China
- Organic Semiconductor Centre, EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9ST, UK
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- Soft Matter Optoelectronics, BIMF & BPI, University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstraße 30, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Joint International Research Laboratory of Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, P. R. China
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- Soft Matter Optoelectronics, BIMF & BPI, University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstraße 30, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Joint International Research Laboratory of Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, P. R. China
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- Soft Matter Optoelectronics, BIMF & BPI, University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstraße 30, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Joint International Research Laboratory of Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, P. R. China
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- Soft Matter Optoelectronics, BIMF & BPI, University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstraße 30, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9ST, UK
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Chen L, Chang Y, Shi S, Wang S, Wang L. Solution-processed white OLEDs with power efficiency over 90 lm W -1 by triplet exciton management with a high triplet energy level interfacial exciplex host and a high reverse intersystem crossing rate blue TADF emitter. MATERIALS HORIZONS 2022; 9:1299-1308. [PMID: 35195631 DOI: 10.1039/d1mh02060a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Solution-processed white organic light-emitting diodes (WOLEDs) have shown much lower device efficiency than their vacuum-deposited counterparts, due to the lack of triplet exciton management in a single-emissive-layer device structure, which will induce triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA) and triplet-polaron annihilation (TPA). Here, two kinds of solution-processed WOLEDs, including thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF)/phosphorescence hybrid WOLEDs and all-TADF WOLEDs, with high power efficiency are developed by using a high triplet energy level (T1) interfacial exciplex as a host and a high reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) rate TADF emitter as a blue dopant for triplet exciton management. The interfacial exciplex host with high T1 can ensure that triplet excitons transfer from the host to the blue emitter, and the blue TADF emitter with high RISC rate (1.15 × 107 s-1) can rapidly upconvert triplet excitons to singlet ones to avoid TTA and TPA. The solution-processed TADF/phosphorescence hybrid and all-TADF WOLEDs exhibit maximum external quantum efficiencies of 31.1% and 27.3%, together with maximum power efficiencies of 93.5 and 70.4 lm W-1, respectively, which are the record efficiencies for solution-processed WOLEDs, and quite comparable to those of most vacuum-deposited counterparts.
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- Liang Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, P. R. China.
- School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, P. R. China.
- School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, P. R. China.
- School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, P. R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, P. R. China.
- School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
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Zhang M, Dai G, Zheng C, Wang K, Shi Y, Fan X, Lin H, Tao S, Zhang X. New electron-donating segment to develop thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters for efficient solution-processed non-doped organic light-emitting diodes. CHINESE CHEM LETT 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2021.08.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Li C, Harrison AK, Liu Y, Zhao Z, Zeng C, Dias FB, Ren Z, Yan S, Bryce MR. Asymmetrical‐Dendronized TADF Emitters for Efficient Non‐doped Solution‐Processed OLEDs by Eliminating Degenerate Excited States and Creating Solely Thermal Equilibrium Routes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202115140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Chensen Li
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering College of Materials Science and Engineering Beijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing 100029 China
- Chemistry Department Durham University South Road Durham DH1 3LE UK
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- Key Laboratory of Rubber-Plastics Ministry of Education Qingdao University of Science & Technology Qingdao 266042 P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering College of Materials Science and Engineering Beijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing 100029 China
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- Key Laboratory of Rubber-Plastics Ministry of Education Qingdao University of Science & Technology Qingdao 266042 P.R. China
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- Physics Department Durham University South Road Durham DH1 3LE UK
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering College of Materials Science and Engineering Beijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing 100029 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering College of Materials Science and Engineering Beijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing 100029 China
- Key Laboratory of Rubber-Plastics Ministry of Education Qingdao University of Science & Technology Qingdao 266042 P.R. China
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- Chemistry Department Durham University South Road Durham DH1 3LE UK
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Shi YZ, Wu H, Wang K, Yu J, Ou XM, Zhang XH. Recent progress in thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters for nondoped organic light-emitting diodes. Chem Sci 2022; 13:3625-3651. [PMID: 35432901 PMCID: PMC8966661 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc07180g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2021] [Accepted: 02/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Nondoped organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have drawn immense attention due to their merits of process simplicity, reduced fabrication cost, etc. To realize high-performance nondoped OLEDs, all electrogenerated excitons should be fully utilized. The thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) mechanism can theoretically realize 100% internal quantum efficiency (IQE) through an effective upconversion process from nonradiative triplet excitons to radiative singlet ones. Nevertheless, exciton quenching, especially related to triplet excitons, is generally very serious in TADF-based nondoped OLEDs, significantly hindering the pace of development. Enormous efforts have been devoted to alleviating the annoying exciton quenching process, and a number of TADF materials for highly efficient nondoped devices have been reported. In this review, we mainly discuss the mechanism, exciton leaking channels, and reported molecular design strategies of TADF emitters for nondoped devices. We further classify their molecular structures depending on the functional A groups and offer an outlook on their future prospects. It is anticipated that this review can entice researchers to recognize the importance of TADF-based nondoped OLEDs and provide a possible guide for their future development. The mechanism, exciton leaking channels, and reported molecular design strategies of TADF emitters for high-performance nondoped OLEDs are summarized. Their molecular structures depending on the functional A groups are further classified.![]()
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- Yi-Zhong Shi
- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University 199 Ren'ai Road Suzhou Jiangsu 215123 PR China
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University 199 Ren'ai Road Suzhou Jiangsu 215123 PR China
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University 199 Ren'ai Road Suzhou Jiangsu 215123 PR China
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University 199 Ren'ai Road Suzhou Jiangsu 215123 PR China
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University 199 Ren'ai Road Suzhou Jiangsu 215123 PR China
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University 199 Ren'ai Road Suzhou Jiangsu 215123 PR China
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Albrecht K, Hisamura E, Furukori M, Nakayama Y, Hosokai T, Nakao K, Ikebe H, Nakayama A. Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence of Carbazole-Benzophenone Dendrimer with Bulky Substituents. Polym Chem 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d2py00255h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Carbazole dendrimers with benzophenone core and bulky terminal substituents were synthesized, and thermally-activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) property was investigated. The adamantane (Ad) substituted dendrimer showed green TADF emission with PLQY...
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Bryce MR, Li C, Harrison AK, Liu Y, Zhao Z, Zeng C, Dias FB, Ren Z, Yan S. Asymmetrical-Dendronized TADF Emitters for Efficient Non-doped Solution-Processed OLEDs by Eliminating Degenerate Excited States and Creating Solely Thermal Equilibrium Routes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 61:e202115140. [PMID: 34870886 PMCID: PMC9306820 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202115140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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The mechanism of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) in dendrimers is not clear. We report that fully‐conjugated or fully‐nonconjugated structures cause unwanted degenerate excited states due to multiple identical dendrons, which limit their TADF efficiency. We have synthesized asymmetrical “half‐dendronized” and “half‐dendronized‐half‐encapsulated” emitters. By eliminating degenerate excited states, the triplet locally excited state is ≥0.3 eV above the lowest triplet charge‐transfer state, assuring a solely thermal equilibrium route for an effective spin‐flip process. The isolated encapsulating tricarbazole unit can protect the TADF unit, reducing nonradiative decay and enhancing TADF performance. Non‐doped solution‐processed devices reach a high external quantum efficiency (EQEmax) of 24.0 % (65.9 cd A−1, 59.2 lm W−1) with CIE coordinates of (0.24, 0.45) with a low efficiency roll‐off and EQEs of 23.6 % and 21.3 % at 100 and 500 cd m−2.
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- Martin Robert Bryce
- University of Durham, Department of Chemistry, South Road, DH1 3LE, Durham, UNITED KINGDOM
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- Beijing University of Chemical Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, CHINA
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- Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Rubber Plastics, CHINA
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- Beijing University of Chemical Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, CHINA
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- Qingdao University, Key laboratory of Rubber Plastics, CHINA
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- Beijing University of Chemical Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, CHINA
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- Beijing University of Chemical Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, CHINA
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Yang Y, Xiao R, Cao X, Chen Z, Lv X, Zhang Y, Gong S, Zou Y, Yang C. Phenoxazine-Dibenzothiophene Sulfoximine Emitters Featuring Both Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Aggregation Induced Emission. Molecules 2021; 26:5243. [PMID: 34500677 PMCID: PMC8434553 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26175243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2021] [Revised: 08/17/2021] [Accepted: 08/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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In this work, we demonstrate dibenzothiophene sulfoximine derivatives as building blocks for constructing emitters featuring both thermally activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) and aggregation-induced emission (AIE) properties, with multiple advantages including high chemical and thermal stability, facile functionalization, as well as tunable electron-accepting ability. A series of phenoxazine-dibenzothiophene sulfoximine structured TADF emitters were successfully synthesized and their photophysical and electroluminescent properties were evaluated. The electroluminescence devices based on these emitters displayed diverse emissions from yellow to orange and reached external quantum efficiencies (EQEs) of 5.8% with 16.7% efficiency roll-off at a high brightness of 1000 cd·m-2.
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- Yiyu Yang
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; (Y.Y.); (R.X.); (X.L.); (Y.Z.); (C.Y.)
- Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; (Y.Y.); (R.X.); (X.L.); (Y.Z.); (C.Y.)
- Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; (Y.Y.); (R.X.); (X.L.); (Y.Z.); (C.Y.)
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- Hubei Key Lab on Organic and Polymeric Optoelectronic Materials, Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China; (Z.C.); (S.G.)
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; (Y.Y.); (R.X.); (X.L.); (Y.Z.); (C.Y.)
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; (Y.Y.); (R.X.); (X.L.); (Y.Z.); (C.Y.)
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- Hubei Key Lab on Organic and Polymeric Optoelectronic Materials, Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China; (Z.C.); (S.G.)
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; (Y.Y.); (R.X.); (X.L.); (Y.Z.); (C.Y.)
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; (Y.Y.); (R.X.); (X.L.); (Y.Z.); (C.Y.)
- Hubei Key Lab on Organic and Polymeric Optoelectronic Materials, Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China; (Z.C.); (S.G.)
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Wang X, Hu J, Lv J, Yang Q, Tian H, Shao S, Wang L, Jing X, Wang F. π‐Stacked Donor–Acceptor Dendrimers for Highly Efficient White Electroluminescence. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202104145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Xingdong Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun Jilin 130022 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun Jilin 130022 P. R. China
- School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering University of Science and Technology of China Hefei Anhui 230026 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun Jilin 130022 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun Jilin 130022 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun Jilin 130022 P. R. China
- School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering University of Science and Technology of China Hefei Anhui 230026 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun Jilin 130022 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun Jilin 130022 P. R. China
- School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering University of Science and Technology of China Hefei Anhui 230026 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun Jilin 130022 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun Jilin 130022 P. R. China
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Wang X, Hu J, Lv J, Yang Q, Tian H, Shao S, Wang L, Jing X, Wang F. π-Stacked Donor-Acceptor Dendrimers for Highly Efficient White Electroluminescence. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:16585-16593. [PMID: 33942454 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202104145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2021] [Revised: 04/23/2021] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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π-Stacked dendrimers consisting of cofacially aligned donors and acceptors are developed by introducing three dendritic teracridan donors with orthogonal configuration and three triazine acceptors in periphery of hexaphenylbenzene skeleton. The dendritic structure and orthogonal configuration of teracridan not only make their outer acridan segments approaching to acceptor in close distance, but also fix donor and acceptor in face-to-face alignment, leading to through-space charge transfer emission with thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) effect. By regulating charge transfer strength via substituent effect of acceptor, emission color of the dendrimers can be tuned from blue to yellow/red region. Solution-processed two-color white organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) based on blue and yellow π-stacked donor-acceptor dendrimers exhibit the maximum external quantum efficiency of 20.6 % and maximum power efficiency of 58.9 lm W-1 , representing the state-of-the-art efficiency for all-TADF white OLEDs by solution process.
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- Xingdong Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, 130022, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, 130022, P. R. China.,School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, 130022, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, 130022, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, 130022, P. R. China.,School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, 130022, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, 130022, P. R. China.,School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, 130022, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, 130022, P. R. China
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Lee Y, Han YJ, Cho KY, Cho KH, Jeong YC. Large-Scale and High-Resolution Patterning Based on the Intense Pulsed Light Transfer of Inkjet-Printed Light-Emitting Materials. Macromol Res 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s13233-021-9017-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Strategy to improve the efficiency of solution-processed phosphorescent organic light-emitting devices by modified TADF host with tert-butyl carbazole. Tetrahedron 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2020.131869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Shanmugasundaram K, Been H, John JC, Puthanveedu A, Pharm NNT, Lee SG, Choe Y. Simple luminescent phenanthroimidazole emitters for solution-processed non-doped organic light-emitting electrochemical cells. NEW J CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d1nj02811a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Organic luminescent materials with leveraging properties have attracted urgent demand for their commercial application in lighting devices.
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- Kanagaraj Shanmugasundaram
- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
- Department of Organic Material Science and Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
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John JC, Shanmugasundaram K, Brahmmananda Rao CVS, Gopakumar G, Choe Y. Furil-based ionic small molecules for green-emitting non-doped LECs with improved color purity. NEW J CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d1nj00155h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Two novel furil-based small molecules FlBzPy and FlThPy were designed and synthesized with simple synthetic procedures for the first time for the LEC application.
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- Jino C. John
- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Pusan National University
- Busan 609-735
- Republic of Korea
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- Solution Chemistry & Mass Spectrometry Section
- Fuel Chemistry Division
- Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
- Kalpakkam 603102
- India
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- Solution Chemistry & Mass Spectrometry Section
- Fuel Chemistry Division
- Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
- Kalpakkam 603102
- India
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Pusan National University
- Busan 609-735
- Republic of Korea
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Iwai K, Yamagishi H, Herzberger C, Sato Y, Tsuji H, Albrecht K, Yamamoto K, Sasaki F, Sato H, Asaithambi A, Lorke A, Yamamoto Y. Single‐Crystalline Optical Microcavities from Luminescent Dendrimers. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202000712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- Kohei Iwai
- Department of Materials Science Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, and Tsukuba Research Center for Energy Materials Science (TREMS) University of Tsukuba 1-1-1 Tennodai Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8573 Japan
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- Department of Materials Science Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, and Tsukuba Research Center for Energy Materials Science (TREMS) University of Tsukuba 1-1-1 Tennodai Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8573 Japan
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- Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science Kanagawa University 2946 Tsuchiya Hiratsuka 259-1293 Japan
- Institute of Organic Chemistry Clausthal University of Technology Adolph-Roemer-Straße 2A 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld Germany
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- Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science Kanagawa University 2946 Tsuchiya Hiratsuka 259-1293 Japan
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- Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science Kanagawa University 2946 Tsuchiya Hiratsuka 259-1293 Japan
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science Tokyo Institute of Technology 4259 Nagatsuta Midori-ku Yokohama 226-8503 Japan
- ERATO Yamamoto Atom Hybrid Project Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) 4259 Nagatsuta Midori-ku Yokohama 226-8503 Japan
- Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering Kyushu University 6-1 Kasuga-koen Fukuoka 816-8580 Japan
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science Tokyo Institute of Technology 4259 Nagatsuta Midori-ku Yokohama 226-8503 Japan
- ERATO Yamamoto Atom Hybrid Project Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) 4259 Nagatsuta Midori-ku Yokohama 226-8503 Japan
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- Electronics and Photonics Research Institute National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) 1-1-1 Umezono Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8568 Japan
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- Rigaku Corporation 12-9-3 Matsubara Akishima Tokyo 196-8666 Japan
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- Faculty of Physics and CENIDE University of Duisburg-Essen Lotharstraße 1 47057 Duisburg Germany
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- Faculty of Physics and CENIDE University of Duisburg-Essen Lotharstraße 1 47057 Duisburg Germany
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- Department of Materials Science Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, and Tsukuba Research Center for Energy Materials Science (TREMS) University of Tsukuba 1-1-1 Tennodai Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8573 Japan
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Iwai K, Yamagishi H, Herzberger C, Sato Y, Tsuji H, Albrecht K, Yamamoto K, Sasaki F, Sato H, Asaithambi A, Lorke A, Yamamoto Y. Single‐Crystalline Optical Microcavities from Luminescent Dendrimers. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:12674-12679. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.202000712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2020] [Revised: 04/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Kohei Iwai
- Department of Materials Science Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, and Tsukuba Research Center for Energy Materials Science (TREMS) University of Tsukuba 1-1-1 Tennodai Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8573 Japan
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- Department of Materials Science Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, and Tsukuba Research Center for Energy Materials Science (TREMS) University of Tsukuba 1-1-1 Tennodai Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8573 Japan
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- Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science Kanagawa University 2946 Tsuchiya Hiratsuka 259-1293 Japan
- Institute of Organic Chemistry Clausthal University of Technology Adolph-Roemer-Straße 2A 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld Germany
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- Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science Kanagawa University 2946 Tsuchiya Hiratsuka 259-1293 Japan
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- Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science Kanagawa University 2946 Tsuchiya Hiratsuka 259-1293 Japan
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science Tokyo Institute of Technology 4259 Nagatsuta Midori-ku Yokohama 226-8503 Japan
- ERATO Yamamoto Atom Hybrid Project Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) 4259 Nagatsuta Midori-ku Yokohama 226-8503 Japan
- Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering Kyushu University 6-1 Kasuga-koen Fukuoka 816-8580 Japan
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science Tokyo Institute of Technology 4259 Nagatsuta Midori-ku Yokohama 226-8503 Japan
- ERATO Yamamoto Atom Hybrid Project Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) 4259 Nagatsuta Midori-ku Yokohama 226-8503 Japan
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- Electronics and Photonics Research Institute National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) 1-1-1 Umezono Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8568 Japan
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- Rigaku Corporation 12-9-3 Matsubara Akishima Tokyo 196-8666 Japan
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- Faculty of Physics and CENIDE University of Duisburg-Essen Lotharstraße 1 47057 Duisburg Germany
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- Faculty of Physics and CENIDE University of Duisburg-Essen Lotharstraße 1 47057 Duisburg Germany
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- Department of Materials Science Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, and Tsukuba Research Center for Energy Materials Science (TREMS) University of Tsukuba 1-1-1 Tennodai Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8573 Japan
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Ban X, Chen F, Pan J, Liu Y, Zhu A, Jiang W, Sun Y. Exciplex Formation and Electromer Blocking for Highly Efficient Blue Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence OLEDs with All-Solution-Processed Organic Layers. Chemistry 2020; 26:3090-3102. [PMID: 31837285 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201904415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2019] [Revised: 12/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Highly efficient solution-processable emitters are greatly desired to develop low-cost organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The recently developed thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials are promising candidates, but blue TADF materials compatible with the all-solution-process have still not been achieved. Here, a series of TADF materials, named X-4CzCN, are developed by introducing the bulky units through an unconjugated linker, which realizes high molecular weight to enhance the solvent resistance ability without disturbing the blue TADF feature. Meanwhile, the peripheral wrapping groups efficiently inhibit the triplet-triplet and triplet-polaron quenching by isolating the energy-transfer and charge-transporting channels. The photophysical measurements indicate that a small variation in peripheral unit will have a noticeable effect on the luminescence efficiency. The enlarged volume of peripheral units will make the electroluminescent spectra blueshift, while enhancing the energy transfer of exciplex and blocking the energy leakage of electromer can facilitate the exciton utilization. As a result, the fully solution-processed blue OLED achieves a CIE of (0.16, 0.27), a low turn on voltage of 2.9 eV, and a high external quantum efficiency of 20.6 %. As far as we known, this is the first report of all-solution-processed TADF OLEDs with blue emission, which exhibits a high efficiency even comparable to the vacuum-deposited devices.
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- Xinxin Ban
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Function Control Technology for, Advanced Materials, School of Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu Ocean University, Jiangsu, 222005, P. R. China.,School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Function Control Technology for, Advanced Materials, School of Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu Ocean University, Jiangsu, 222005, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Function Control Technology for, Advanced Materials, School of Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu Ocean University, Jiangsu, 222005, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Function Control Technology for, Advanced Materials, School of Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu Ocean University, Jiangsu, 222005, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Function Control Technology for, Advanced Materials, School of Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu Ocean University, Jiangsu, 222005, P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, P. R. China
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Ban X, Liu Y, Pan J, Chen F, Zhu A, Jiang W, Sun Y, Dong Y. Design of Blue Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Emitter with Efficient Exciton Gathering Property for High-Performance Fully Solution-Processed Hybrid White OLEDs. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:1190-1200. [PMID: 31840975 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b20903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The blue thermally activated delay fluorescence (TADF) emitters are highly attractive in the fields of constructing hybrid white organic light-emitting diodes (WOLEDs) due to its high efficiency and color stability. However, few blue TADF emitters can withstand sequential orthogonal solvents, making it impossible to fabricate the fully solution-processed hybrid WOLEDs. Here, two TADF materials, PCz-4CzCN and TPA-4CzCN, were designed and synthesized by equipping the emissive core with nonconjugated bulky units, which can effectively enhance the solvent resistance ability without disturbing the TADF feature. The photophysical investigation indicates that phenylcarbazole unit can efficiently block the electromer formation to enhance the energy transfer and exciton utilization of the emitter. Accordingly, the blue OLEDs of PCz-4CzCN shows higher external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 22.6%, which is the best performance recorded among the fully solution-processed blue OLEDs. Upon further doping, the yellow phosphor PO-01, the fully solution-processed TADF-phosphor (T-P) hybrid WOLEDs was successfully obtained with high performance for the first time. Thanks to the efficient exciplex formation, the turn-on voltage of the white device is only 2.8 V, and the maximum brightness and power efficiency are as high as 53 300 cd m-2 and 38.5 lm W-1, respectively, which are even higher than the previous reported T-P hybrid WOLEDs with a vacuum-deposited electron transfer layer.
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- Xinxin Ban
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Function Control Technology for Advanced Materials, School of Chemical Engineering , Jiangsu Ocean University , Lianyungang , Jiangsu 222005 , China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Function Control Technology for Advanced Materials, School of Chemical Engineering , Jiangsu Ocean University , Lianyungang , Jiangsu 222005 , China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Function Control Technology for Advanced Materials, School of Chemical Engineering , Jiangsu Ocean University , Lianyungang , Jiangsu 222005 , China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Function Control Technology for Advanced Materials, School of Chemical Engineering , Jiangsu Ocean University , Lianyungang , Jiangsu 222005 , China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Function Control Technology for Advanced Materials, School of Chemical Engineering , Jiangsu Ocean University , Lianyungang , Jiangsu 222005 , China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Southeast University , Nanjing , Jiangsu 211189 , China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Southeast University , Nanjing , Jiangsu 211189 , China
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- Nanoscience Technology Center , University of Central Florida , Orlando , Florida 32826 , United States
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Chikayasu Y, Ohisa S, Takahashi T, Chiba T, Kido J. ZnO/Polyethyleneimine Ethoxylated/Lithium Bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide for Solution-Processed Electron Injection Layers in Organic Light-Emitting Devices. J PHOTOPOLYM SCI TEC 2019. [DOI: 10.2494/photopolymer.32.577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Yuki Chikayasu
- Graduate School of Organic Materials Science, Yamagata University
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- Graduate School of Organic Materials Science, Yamagata University
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- Graduate School of Organic Materials Science, Yamagata University
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- Graduate School of Organic Materials Science, Yamagata University
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Liu D, Tian W, Feng Y, Zhang X, Ban X, Jiang W, Sun Y. Achieving 20% External Quantum Efficiency for Fully Solution-Processed Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Dendrimers with Flexible Chains. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019; 11:16737-16748. [PMID: 30986027 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b22662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Actualizing high-efficiency thermally activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with fully wet processes is of great significance to the development of purely organic electroluminescence and the application of large-area OLED displays. Herein, new strategies are proposed to develop the TADF dendrimers with tunable colors by adjusting the way of linking branches to the core and the numbers of peripheral branches. Due to an energy gradient and efficient exciton utilization in the core-dendron system, the solution-processed OLEDs with the four dendrimers 5CzBN-O-Cz, 5CzBN-O-2Cz, 5CzBN-Cz, and 5CzBN-2Cz all give rise to low turn-on voltages and great device efficiency. Notably, 5CzBN-2Cz affords record-high fully solution-processed TADF OLEDs with external quantum efficiency of above 20%, which is significantly comparable to the efficiency of TADF OLEDs based on vacuum deposition. The work offers a guideline for designing solution-processable materials, paving the way toward practical applications of large-area fully solution-processed OLEDs.
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- Dan Liu
- Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Bio-Medical Research, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Smart Carbon-Rich Materials and Device, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Southeast University , Nanjing 211189 , China
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- Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Bio-Medical Research, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Smart Carbon-Rich Materials and Device, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Southeast University , Nanjing 211189 , China
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- Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Bio-Medical Research, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Smart Carbon-Rich Materials and Device, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Southeast University , Nanjing 211189 , China
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- Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Bio-Medical Research, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Smart Carbon-Rich Materials and Device, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Southeast University , Nanjing 211189 , China
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- Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Bio-Medical Research, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Smart Carbon-Rich Materials and Device, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Southeast University , Nanjing 211189 , China
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Function Control Technology for Advanced Materials, School of Chemical Engineering , Huaihai Institute of Technology , Lianyungang , Jiangsu 222005 , China
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- Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Bio-Medical Research, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Smart Carbon-Rich Materials and Device, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Southeast University , Nanjing 211189 , China
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- Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Bio-Medical Research, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Smart Carbon-Rich Materials and Device, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Southeast University , Nanjing 211189 , China
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