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Zhao P, Guo WC, Li M, Lu HY, Chen CF. Single-Molecule White Circularly Polarized Photoluminescence and Electroluminescence from Dual-Emission Enantiomers. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024; 63:e202409020. [PMID: 38899789 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202409020] [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: 05/13/2024] [Revised: 06/19/2024] [Accepted: 06/20/2024] [Indexed: 06/21/2024]
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The strategy of integrating conformational isomerization donors and chiral acceptors in a single molecule was proposed to construct white circularly polarized luminescence (WCPL) materials in this work. Consequently, a pair of dual-emission enantiomers, namely (R/S)-DO-PTZ, were designed and synthesized, which displayed white emission with blue and yellow dual-emission bands in solution and solid films with Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) coordinates of (0.30, 0.33) and (0.33, 0.35), respectively. Meanwhile, (R/S)-DO-PTZ exhibited a high PLQY of up to 67 % in doped films and clear mirror-image WCPL signals with a |glum| value of 3.0×10-3. Moreover, white circularly polarized electroluminescence (WCPEL) based on organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with (R/S)-DO-PTZ as emitters were also achieved with CIE coordinates of (0.32, 0.37) and EQEmax of 4.7 %, representing the state-of-the-art level of white OLEDs based on single-molecule purely organic emitters. By optimizing the device structure, warm WCPEL devices were further obtained with a |gEL| value of 2.8×10-3, CIE coordinates of (0.37, 0.48) and EQEmax of up to 15.6 %. To our knowledge, this is the first report of CP-WOLEDs based on single-molecule purely organic emitters.
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- Pei Zhao
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function, Institute of, Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function, Institute of, Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function, Institute of, Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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Moreno-Naranjo JM, Furlan F, Wang J, Ryan STJ, Matulaitis T, Xu Z, Zhang Q, Minion L, Di Girolamo M, Jávorfi T, Siligardi G, Wade J, Gasparini N, Zysman-Colman E, Fuchter MJ. Enhancing Circularly Polarized Electroluminescence through Energy Transfer within a Chiral Polymer Host. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024; 36:e2402194. [PMID: 38865650 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202402194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2024] [Revised: 06/04/2024] [Indexed: 06/14/2024]
Abstract
Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) that are able to emit high levels of circularly polarized (CP) light hold significant promise in numerous future technologies. Such devices require chiral emissive materials to enable CP electroluminescence. However, the vast majority of current OLED emitter classes, including the state-of-the-art triplet-harvesting thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials, produce very low levels of CP electroluminescence. Here a host-guest strategy that allows for energy transfer between a chiral polymer host and a representative chiral TADF emitter is showcased. Such a mechanism results in a large amplification of the circular polarization of the emitter. As such, this study presents a promising avenue to further boost the performance of circularly polarized organic light-emitting diode devices, enabling their further development and eventual commercialization.
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- Juan Manuel Moreno-Naranjo
- Department of Chemistry, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, White City Campus, London, W12 0BZ, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, White City Campus, London, W12 0BZ, UK
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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9ST, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, White City Campus, London, W12 0BZ, UK
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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9ST, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, White City Campus, London, W12 0BZ, UK
- Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PJ, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, White City Campus, London, W12 0BZ, UK
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- Department of Materials, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
- Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
- Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, White City Campus, London, W12 0BZ, UK
- Department of Materials, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, UK
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- Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, UK
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- Department of Materials, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
- Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, White City Campus, London, W12 0BZ, UK
- Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9ST, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, White City Campus, London, W12 0BZ, UK
- Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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Nakayama S, Yamagishi H, Oki O, Kushida S, Chen J, Kuwabara J, Kanbara T, Yospanya W, Oda R, Yamamoto Y. Near-unity angular anisotropy of circularly polarized luminescence from microspheres of monodispersed chiral conjugated polymers. Chem Commun (Camb) 2024; 60:7634-7637. [PMID: 38958669 DOI: 10.1039/d4cc01428f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/04/2024]
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A microsphere, assembled from a chiral π-conjugated polymer with narrow polydispersity, features a well-organized twisted-bipolar structure and exhibits highly biased circularly polarized luminescence (CPL). The CPL emitted toward the equatorial direction is 61-fold greater than that emitted along the zenith direction, which is the highest anisotropy among existing microscopic CPL emitters.
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- Sota Nakayama
- Department of Materials Science, Institute 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, Institute 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, Institute 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, Institute 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, Institute 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, Institute 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, Institute 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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- Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8577, Japan
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- University of Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, CBMN, UMR 5248, F-33600 Pessac, France
- Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8577, Japan
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- Department of Materials Science, Institute 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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Gust D, Scholz M, Schumacher V, Mulatier JC, Pitrat D, Guy L, Oum K, Lenzer T. Annealing temperature-dependent induced supramolecular chiroptical response of copolymer thin films studied by pump-modulated transient circular dichroism spectroscopy. Sci Rep 2024; 14:12694. [PMID: 38830981 PMCID: PMC11148131 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-63126-4] [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: 02/23/2024] [Accepted: 05/22/2024] [Indexed: 06/05/2024] Open
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Copolymer thin films showing induced supramolecular chirality are of considerable interest for optoelectronic applications such as organic light-emitting diodes. Here, we introduce a new helicene-like chiral additive with two octyloxy substituents which displays excellent chiral induction properties in an achiral polyfluorene copolymer, leading to a circular dichroism (CD) response of up to 10,000 mdeg. This chiral inducer also displays very good thermal stability, which enables us to perform an extended study on the induced chiroptical properties of the cholesteric copolymer thin films annealed at different temperatures in the range 140-260 °C. Starting from about 180 °C, a distinct change in the morphology of the CD-active film is observed by CD microscopy, from micrometre-size granular to extended CD-active regions, where the latter ones display skewed distributions of the dissymmetry parameter gabs. Broadband Müller matrix spectroscopy finds a pronounced CD and circular birefringence (CB) response and only weak linear dichroism (LD, LD') and linear birefringence (LB, LB'). Ultrafast transient CD spectroscopy with randomly polarised excitation reveals a clean mirror-image-type transient response, which shows a second-order decay of the S1 population due to singlet-singlet annihilation processes.
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- Domenic Gust
- Faculty IV: School of Science and Technology, Department Chemistry and Biology, Physical Chemistry 2, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57068, Siegen, Germany
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- Faculty IV: School of Science and Technology, Department Chemistry and Biology, Physical Chemistry 2, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57068, Siegen, Germany
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- Faculty IV: School of Science and Technology, Department Chemistry and Biology, Physical Chemistry 2, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57068, Siegen, Germany
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- Univ. Lyon, ENS de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Laboratoire de Chimie, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69342, Lyon, France
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- Univ. Lyon, ENS de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Laboratoire de Chimie, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69342, Lyon, France
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- Univ. Lyon, ENS de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Laboratoire de Chimie, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69342, Lyon, France
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- Faculty IV: School of Science and Technology, Department Chemistry and Biology, Physical Chemistry 2, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57068, Siegen, Germany.
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- Faculty IV: School of Science and Technology, Department Chemistry and Biology, Physical Chemistry 2, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57068, Siegen, Germany.
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Gedeon C, Del Rio N, Furlan F, Taddeucci A, Vanthuyne N, Gregoriou VG, Fuchter MJ, Siligardi G, Gasparini N, Crassous J, Chochos CL. Rational Design of New Conjugated Polymers with Main Chain Chirality for Efficient Optoelectronic Devices: Carbo[6]Helicene and Indacenodithiophene Copolymers as Model Compounds. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024; 36:e2314337. [PMID: 38406997 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202314337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2023] [Revised: 02/18/2024] [Indexed: 02/27/2024]
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The unique properties of conjugated polymers (CPs) in various optoelectronic applications are mainly attributed to their different self-assembly processes and superstructures. Various methods are utilized to tune and control CP structure and properties with less attention paid to the use of chirality. CPs with main chain chirality are rare and their microscopic and macroscopic properties are still unknown. In this work, the first experimental results are provided along these lines by synthesizing a series of racemic and enantiopure CPs containing statistical and alternating carbo[6]helicene and indacenodithiophene moieties and evaluating their microscopic (optical, energy levels) and macroscopic properties (hole mobilities, photovoltaic performance). It is demonstrated that a small statistical insertion of either the racemic or enantiopure helicene into the polymer backbone finely tunes the microscopic and macroscopic properties as a function of the statistical content. The microscopic properties of the enantiopure versus the racemic polymers with the same helicene loading remain similar. On the contrary, the macroscopic properties, and more interestingly those between the two enantiomeric forms, are altered as a function of the statistical content. Once incorporated into a solar cell device, these chiral CPs display better performance in their enantiopure versus racemic forms.
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- Clement Gedeon
- Advent Technologies SA., Stadiou Str, Patras, Platani, 26504, Greece
- Univ Rennes, CNRS, ISCR - UMR 6226, Rennes, 35000, France
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- Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Department of Chemistry, White City Campus, Imperial College London, 82 Wood Lane, London, W12 0BZ, UK
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- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0GD, UK
- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, University of Pisa, Via Moruzzi 13, Pisa, 56124, Italy
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- Aix Marseille University, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, iSm2, Marseille, 13007, France
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- Advent Technologies SA., Stadiou Str, Patras, Platani, 26504, Greece
- Institute of Chemical Biology, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, 11635, Greece
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- Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Department of Chemistry, White City Campus, Imperial College London, 82 Wood Lane, London, W12 0BZ, UK
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- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0GD, UK
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- Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Department of Chemistry, White City Campus, Imperial College London, 82 Wood Lane, London, W12 0BZ, UK
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- Advent Technologies SA., Stadiou Str, Patras, Platani, 26504, Greece
- Institute of Chemical Biology, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, 11635, Greece
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Sun R, Park KS, Comstock AH, McConnell A, Chen YC, Zhang P, Beratan D, You W, Hoffmann A, Yu ZG, Diao Y, Sun D. Inverse chirality-induced spin selectivity effect in chiral assemblies of π-conjugated polymers. NATURE MATERIALS 2024; 23:782-789. [PMID: 38491147 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-01838-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2023] [Accepted: 02/14/2024] [Indexed: 03/18/2024]
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Coupling of spin and charge currents to structural chirality in non-magnetic materials, known as chirality-induced spin selectivity, is promising for application in spintronic devices at room temperature. Although the chirality-induced spin selectivity effect has been identified in various chiral materials, its Onsager reciprocal process, the inverse chirality-induced spin selectivity effect, remains unexplored. Here we report the observation of the inverse chirality-induced spin selectivity effect in chiral assemblies of π-conjugated polymers. Using spin-pumping techniques, the inverse chirality-induced spin selectivity effect enables quantification of the magnitude of the longitudinal spin-to-charge conversion driven by chirality-induced spin selectivity in different chiral polymers. By widely tuning conductivities and supramolecular chiral structures via a printing method, we found a very long spin relaxation time of up to several nanoseconds parallel to the chiral axis. Our demonstration of the inverse chirality-induced spin selectivity effect suggests possibilities for elucidating the puzzling interplay between spin and chirality, and opens a route for spintronic applications using printable chiral assemblies.
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- Rui Sun
- Department of Physics and Organic and Carbon Electronics Lab (ORaCEL), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Physics and Organic and Carbon Electronics Lab (ORaCEL), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Physics and Organic and Carbon Electronics Lab (ORaCEL), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Materials Science & Engineering and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Sivananthan Laboratories, Bolingbrook, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
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- Department of Physics and Organic and Carbon Electronics Lab (ORaCEL), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
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Zhang X, Chen X, Fu S, Cao Z, Gong W, Liu Y, Cui Y. Homochiral π-Rich Covalent Organic Frameworks Enabled Chirality Imprinting in Conjugated Polymers: Confined Polymerization and Chiral Memory from Scratch. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024; 63:e202403878. [PMID: 38506535 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202403878] [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: 02/24/2024] [Revised: 03/19/2024] [Accepted: 03/20/2024] [Indexed: 03/21/2024]
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Optically active π-conjugated polymers (OACPs) have garnered increasing research interest for their resemblance to biological helices and intriguing chirality-related functions. Traditional methods for synthesizing involve decorating achiral conjugated polymer architectures with enantiopure side substituents through complex organic synthesis. Here, we report a new approach: the templated synthesis of unsubstituted OACPs via supramolecularly confined polymerizations of achiral monomers within nanopores of 2D or 3D chiral covalent organic frameworks (CCOFs). We show that the chiral π-rich nanospaces facilitate the in situ enantiospecific polymerization and self-propagation, akin to nonenzymatic polymerase chain reaction (PCR) system, resulting in chiral imprinting. The stacked polymer chains are kinetically inert enough to memorize the chiral information after liberating from CCOFs, and even after treatment at temperature up to 200 °C. The isolated OACPs demonstrate robust enantiodiscrimination, achieving up to 85 % ee in separating racemic amino acids. This underscores the potential of utilizing CCOFs as templates for supramolecularly imprinting optical activity into CPs, paving the way for synthetic evolution and advanced functional exploration of OACPs.
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- Xiaofeng Zhang
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules and State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules and State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules and State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules and State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules and State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules and State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules and State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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Zhong XS, Yuan L, Liao XJ, Hu JJ, Xing S, Song SQ, Xi JQ, Zheng YX. Circularly Polarized Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Chiral Hole Transport Enantiomers. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024; 36:e2311857. [PMID: 38272858 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202311857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2023] [Revised: 01/06/2024] [Indexed: 01/27/2024]
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The circularly polarized organic light-emitting diodes (CP-OLEDs) demonstrate promising application in 3D display due to the direct generation of circularly polarized electroluminescence (CPEL). But the chiral luminescence materials face challenges as intricated synthetic route, enantiomeric separation, etc. Herein, fresh CP-OLEDs are designed based on chiral hole transport material instead of chiral emitters. A pair of hole transport enantiomers (R/S-NPACZ) exhibit intense dissymmetry factors (|gPL|) about 5.0 × 10-3. With R/S-NPACZ as hole transport layers, CP-OLEDs are fabricated employing six achiral phosphorescence and thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials with different wavelengths, in consistence with the generated CPEL spectra. The CP-OLEDs based on achiral red, green, and blue iridium(III) complexes exhibit external quantum efficiencies (EQEs) of 14.9%, 30.7%, and 14.1% with |gEL| factors of 8.8 × 10-4, 2.3 × 10-3, and 2.0 × 10-3, respectively. Moreover, the devices using achiral blue, blueish-green, and green TADF materials display EQEs of 24.1%, 17.9%, and 25.4% with |gEL| factors of 1.0 × 10-3, 3.6 × 10-3, and 2.2 × 10-3, respectively. As far as known, it is the first example of CP-OLEDs based on chiral hole transport materials, which act as the organic circularly polarizers and have potential to generate CPEL from achiral luminescence materials.
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- Xiao-Sheng Zhong
- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, P. R. China
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Zhong H, Gao X, Zhao B, Deng J. "Matching Rule" for Generation, Modulation and Amplification of Circularly Polarized Luminescence. Acc Chem Res 2024; 57:1188-1201. [PMID: 38578919 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.4c00044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/07/2024]
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ConspectusCircularly polarized luminescence (CPL) generated by chiral luminescent systems has sparked enormous attention in multidisciplinary field as it brings infinite potential for applications, such as 3D optical displays, biological probes, and chiroptical sensors. Satisfying both the conditions of chirality and luminescence (including fluorescence or phosphorescence) is a prerequisite for constructing CPL materials. In this regard, whether in organic, inorganic, or hybrid systems, chiral and luminescent components generally involve effective coupling through covalent or noncovalent bonds. For covalent interactions, such as the copolymerization of chiral and luminescent monomers, although covalent bonds provide high stability for the system, they inevitably involve tedious preparation procedures that connect chirality and luminescence together. For noncovalent bonds, take supramolecular assembly as an example, chiral elements and achiral light-emitting units are chiral transferred through intermolecular interactions, and their advantages include the diversity of luminescent and chiral building blocks, the stimuli responsiveness brought by noncovalent bonds, as well as the potential amplification of CPL signals by coassembly. However, the stability of the assembly system may be poor, and the assembly chiroptical performance and morphology are difficult to predict. Gratifyingly, matching rule that do not rely on covalent together with noncovalent interactions allows for the effortless construction, modulation, as well as amplification of CPL systems.In this Account, we overview different strategies based on matching rule, including fluorescence-selective absorption, circularly polarized reflection, and circularly polarized fluorescence energy transfer (CPF-ET). Examples of these strategies are illustrated with a focus on helical polymers in light of their appealing structures and wide uses. For instance, for fluorescence-selective absorption, chiral helical polymers can convert racemic fluorescence light into a circularly polarized one with specific handedness by simply overlapping the helical polymer's circular dichroism (CD) spectra with the luminophore's emission spectra. For circularly polarized reflection, employing the selective reflection of certain handedness's circularly polarized light, the high helical twisting power (HTP) of the helical polymer in the cholesteric liquid crystals (N*-LCs) gives the system high glum. Additionally, for CPF-ET, only the emission spectrum of the donor and the absorption (or excitation) spectrum of the achiral acceptor are required to overlap, and no covalent or noncovalent interactions between the two are required. An outlook for the CPL materials related to matching rule which will avail the optimization and extension of this intriguing approach concludes the Account. We hope that the Account will offer insightful inspiration for the flourishing progress of chiroptical systems and present exciting opportunities.
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- Hai Zhong
- 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
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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
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Mishra S, Bowes EG, Majumder S, Hollingsworth JA, Htoon H, Jones AC. Inducing Circularly Polarized Single-Photon Emission via Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity. ACS NANO 2024; 18:8663-8672. [PMID: 38484339 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c08676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/27/2024]
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One of the central aims of the field of spintronics is the control of individual electron spins to effectively manage the transmission of quantized data. One well-known mechanism for controlling electronic spin transport is the chiral-induced spin-selectivity (CISS) effect in which a helical nanostructure imparts a preferential spin orientation on the electronic transport. One potential application of the CISS effect is as a transduction pathway between electronic spin and circularly polarized light within nonreciprocal photonic devices. In this work, we identify and quantify the degree of chiral-induced spin-selective electronic transport in helical polyaniline films using magnetoconductive atomic force microscopy (mcAFM). We then induce circularly polarized quantum light emission from CdSe/CdS core/shell quantum dots placed on these films, demonstrating a degree of circular polarization of up to ∼21%. Utilizing time-resolved photoluminescence microscopy, we measure the radiative lifetime difference associated with left- and right-handed circular polarizations of single emitters. These lifetime differences, in combination with Kelvin probe mapping of the variation of surface potential with magnetization of the substrate, help establish an energy level diagram describing the spin-dependent transport pathways that enable the circularly polarized photoluminescence.
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- Suryakant Mishra
- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Materials Physics and Applications Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Materials Physics and Applications Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Materials Physics and Applications Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Materials Physics and Applications Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Materials Physics and Applications Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Materials Physics and Applications Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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Vázquez-Domínguez P, Rizo JF, Arteaga JF, Jacquemin D, Favereau L, Ros A, Pischel U. Azaborahelicene fluorophores derived from four-coordinate N, C-boron chelates: synthesis, photophysical and chiroptical properties. Org Chem Front 2024; 11:843-853. [PMID: 38298564 PMCID: PMC10825847 DOI: 10.1039/d3qo01762a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2023] [Accepted: 12/12/2023] [Indexed: 02/02/2024]
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A series of six azaborahelicenes with varying electron-donor substitution at the 4-position of the aryl residue (i.e., naphthyl) or with variable π-extension of the aryl residue (thianthrenyl, anthryl, pyrenyl) was prepared with an efficient and flexible synthetic protocol. These different types of functionalization afforded notably pronounced intramolecular charge-transfer (ICT) character for the dyes with the strongest electron donor substitution (NMe2) or easiest to oxidize aryl residues, as evidenced by photophysical investigations. These effects also impact the corresponding chiroptical properties of the separated M- and P-enantiomers, which notably display circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) with dissymmetry factors in the order of magnitude of 10-4 to 10-3. Theoretical calculations confirm the optical spectroscopy data and are in agreement with the proposed involvement of ICT processes.
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- Pablo Vázquez-Domínguez
- Institute for Chemical Research (CSIC-US) C/Américo Vespucio 49 E-41092 Seville Spain
- Department of Organic Chemistry, Innovation Centre in Advanced Chemistry, ORFEO-CINQA, University of Seville C/Prof. García González 1 41012 Seville Spain
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- Institute for Chemical Research (CSIC-US) C/Américo Vespucio 49 E-41092 Seville Spain
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- CIQSO - Center for Research in Sustainable Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, University of Huelva Campus de El Carmen s/n E-21071 Huelva Spain
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- Nantes Université, CNRS, CEISAM UMR 6230 F-44000 Nantes France
- Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) F-75005 Paris France
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- Institute for Chemical Research (CSIC-US) C/Américo Vespucio 49 E-41092 Seville Spain
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- CIQSO - Center for Research in Sustainable Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, University of Huelva Campus de El Carmen s/n E-21071 Huelva Spain
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Chen L, Yuan J, He X, Zheng F, Lu X, Xiang S, Lu Q. Controllable Circularly Polarized Luminescence with High Dissymmetry Factor via Co-Assembly of Achiral Dyes in Liquid Crystal Polymer Films. SMALL METHODS 2024:e2301517. [PMID: 38221818 DOI: 10.1002/smtd.202301517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2023] [Revised: 12/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/16/2024]
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Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) materials are highly demanded due to their great potential in optoelectronic and chiroptical elements. However, the preparation of CPL films with high luminescence dissymmetry factors (glum ) remains a formidable task, which impedes their practical application in film-based devices. Herein, a facile strategy to prepare solid CPL film with a high glum through exogenous chiral induction and amplification of liquid crystal polymers is proposed. Amplification and reversion of the CPL appear when the films are annealed at the chiral nematic liquid crystalline temperature and the maximal glum up to 0.30 due to the enhancement of selective reflection. Thermal annealing treatment at different liquid crystalline states facilitates the formation of the chiral liquid phase and adjusts the circularly polarized emission. This work not only provides a straightforward and versatile platform to construct organic films capable of exhibiting strong circularly polarized emission but also is helpful in understanding the exact mechanism for the liquid crystal enhancement of CPL performance.
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- Lianjie Chen
- School of Chemical Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Aging, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- School of Chemical Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China
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- School of Chemical Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Aging, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Aging, Shanghai, 200240, China
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Joseph JP, Malone T, Abraham SR, Dutta A, Gupta S, Kuzmin A, Baev A, Swihart MT, Hendrickson JR, Prasad PN. Plasticizer-Induced Enhancement of Mesoscale Dissymmetry in Thin Films of Chiral Polymers with Variable Chain Length. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024; 36:e2305684. [PMID: 37725635 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202305684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2023] [Revised: 08/13/2023] [Indexed: 09/21/2023]
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Conjugated polymers with chiral side chains are of interest in areas including chiral photonics, optoelectronics, and chemical and biological sensing. However, the low dissymmetry factors of most neat polymer thin films have limited their practical application. Here, a robust method to increase the absorption dissymmetry factor in a poly-fluorene-thiophene (PF8TS series) system is demonstrated by varying molecular weight and introducing an achiral plasticizer, polyethylene mono alcohol (PEM-OH). Extending chain length within the optimal range and adding this long-chain alcohol significantly enhance the chiroptical properties of spin-coated and annealed thin films. Mueller matrix spectroscopic ellipsometry (MMSE) analysis shows good agreement with the steady-state transmission measurements confirming a strong chiral response (circular dichroism (CD) and circular birefringence (CB)), ruling out linear dichroism, birefringence, and specific reflection effects. Solid-state NMR studies of annealed hybrid chiral polymer systems show enhancement of signals associated with aromatic π-stacked backbone and the ordered side-chain conformations. Further studies using Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), atomic force microscopy (AFM), and polarized optical microscopy (POM) indicate that PEM-OH facilitates mesoscopic crystal domain ordering upon annealing. This provides new insights into routes for tuning optical activity in conjugated polymers.
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- Jojo P Joseph
- Department of Chemistry and The Institute for Lasers, Photonics, and Biophotonics, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA
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- Department of Electro-Optics and Photonics, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, 45469, USA
- Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH, 45433, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and The Institute for Lasers, Photonics, and Biophotonics, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and The Institute for Lasers, Photonics, and Biophotonics, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and The Institute for Lasers, Photonics, and Biophotonics, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and The Institute for Lasers, Photonics, and Biophotonics, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA
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- Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH, 45433, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and The Institute for Lasers, Photonics, and Biophotonics, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA
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Song I, You L, Chen K, Lee WJ, Mei J. Chiroptical Switching of Electrochromic Polymer Thin Films. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024; 36:e2307057. [PMID: 37897242 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202307057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Revised: 10/17/2023] [Indexed: 10/30/2023]
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The interaction between light and chiroptical polymers plays a crucial role in chiroptics, spintronics, and chiral-spin selectivity. Despite considerable successes in creating dissymmetric polymer films, the elucidation of chiroptical activities under electrochemical switching remains unexplored. Here homogeneous chiral electrochromics is reported using chiral assembly of conjugated polymers through a transient solidification process with molecular chiral templates. In their neutral state, the chiral electrochromic polymers directly produce a remarkably dissymmetric polarization-dependent transmittance. The circular dichroism (CD) and dissymmetric transmission can be tuned by adjusting the doping level of the electrochemically active polymer films. Under high levels of oxidation, the chiroptical activities are reversed with strong bleaching in the visible, leading to formation of monosignate CD spectra over the infrared region. The matching between circular polarization handedness and chirality of chiroptical polymers makes a distinct impact on optical contrast and color switching dynamics due to the flipped chiroptical activities through polymer redox reactions. The differential circularly polarized transmission in the chiral see-through display can make a well-resolved color change in human eyes, demonstrating proof-of-concept devices for 3D imaging and information encryption. This work serves as a foundation to develop advanced on-chip fabrication of circular polarization-multiplexed display in flexible and highly integrated platforms.
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- Inho Song
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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Han H, Choi JH, Ahn J, Lee H, Choi C, Jung W, Yeom J, Hwang DK, Sung BJ, Lim JA. Chiral Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Conjugated Polymers with Intramolecular Rotation-Isomeric Conformation Asymmetry for Near-Infrared Circularly Polarized Light-Sensing Organic Phototransistors. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023. [PMID: 38032109 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c13976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2023]
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Recent advances in chiral nanomaterials interacting with circularly polarized (CP) light open new expectations for optoelectronics in various research fields such as quantum- and biology-related technology. To fully utilize the great potential of chiral optoelectronic devices, the development of chiral optoelectronic devices that function in the near-infrared (NIR) region is required. Herein, we demonstrate a NIR-absorbing, chiroptical, low-band-gap polymer semiconductor for high-performance NIR CP light phototransistors. A newly synthesized diketopyrrolopyrrole-based donor-acceptor-type chiral π-conjugated polymer with an asymmetric alkyl side chain exhibits strong chiroptical activity in a wavelength range of 700-1000 nm. We found that the attachment of an enantiomerically pure stereogenic alkyl substituent to the π-conjugated chromophore backbone led to strong chiroptical activity through symmetry breaking of the π-conjugation of the backbone in a molecular rotational motion while maintaining the coplanar backbone conformation for efficient charge transport. The NIR CP light-sensing phototransistors based on a chiral π-conjugated polymer photoactive single channel layer exhibit a high photoresponsivity of 26 A W-1 under NIR CP light irradiation at 920 nm, leading to excellent NIR CP light distinguishability. This study will provide a rationale and strategy for designing chiral π-conjugated polymers for high-performance NIR chiral optoelectronics.
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- Hyemi Han
- Center for Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Sogang University, Seoul 04107, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
- Division of Nanoscience and Technology, KIST School, University of Science and Technology (UST), Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
- KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Sogang University, Seoul 04107, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
- Division of Nanoscience and Technology, KIST School, University of Science and Technology (UST), Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
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Albano G, Taddeucci A, Pescitelli G, Di Bari L. Spatially Resolved Chiroptical Spectroscopies Emphasizing Recent Applications to Thin Films of Chiral Organic Dyes. Chemistry 2023; 29:e202301982. [PMID: 37515814 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202301982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2023] [Revised: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 07/28/2023] [Indexed: 07/31/2023]
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Instrumental techniques able to identify and structurally characterize the aggregation states in thin films of chiral organic π-conjugated materials, from the first-order supramolecular arrangement up to the microscopic and mesoscopic scale, are very helpful for clarifying structure-property relationships. Chiroptical imaging is currently gaining a central role, for its ability of mapping local supramolecular structures in thin films. The present review gives an overview of electronic circular dichroism imaging (ECDi), circularly polarized luminescence imaging (CPLi), and vibrational circular dichroism imaging (VCDi), with a focus on their applications on thin films of chiral organic dyes as case studies.
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- Gianluigi Albano
- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi 13, 56124, Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi 13, 56124, Pisa, Italy
- Diamond Light Source, Ltd., Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0DE, UK
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi 13, 56124, Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi 13, 56124, Pisa, Italy
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Minion L, Wade J, Moreno‐Naranjo JM, Ryan S, Siligardi G, Fuchter MJ. Insights into the origins of inverted circular dichroism in thin films of a chiral side chain polyfluorene. Chirality 2023; 35:817-825. [PMID: 37349263 PMCID: PMC10946986 DOI: 10.1002/chir.23601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2023] [Revised: 05/16/2023] [Accepted: 06/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/24/2023]
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We synthesized a fluorene-bithiophene co-polymer with chiral side chains (cPFT2) and investigated its chiroptical properties via synchotronradiation circular dichroism. We observed that thin films of the polymer display an intense circular dichroism (CD) upon annealing, which is of opposite handedness to the CD reported for similar polyfluorenes bearing the same enantiomeric chiral side chain. We then contrast the properties of this polymer with chiral side chain fluorene homopolymer (cPF) and observe large differences in their thin film morphology. Using photoluminescence spectroscopy, we uncover evidence of polymer chain bending in cPFT2, which is further supported by theoretical calculations, and propose an explanation for the observed inverted optical activity.
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- Louis Minion
- Department of MaterialsImperial College LondonLondonUK
- Centre for Processable ElectronicsImperial College London, South Kensington CampusLondonUK
- B23 Beamline, Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation CampusDidcotUK
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- Department of MaterialsImperial College LondonLondonUK
- Centre for Processable ElectronicsImperial College London, South Kensington CampusLondonUK
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- Centre for Processable ElectronicsImperial College London, South Kensington CampusLondonUK
- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Research HubImperial College London, White City CampusLondonUK
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- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Research HubImperial College London, White City CampusLondonUK
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- B23 Beamline, Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation CampusDidcotUK
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- Centre for Processable ElectronicsImperial College London, South Kensington CampusLondonUK
- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Research HubImperial College London, White City CampusLondonUK
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Taddeucci A, Zinna F, Siligardi G, Di Bari L. Circularly Polarized Microscopy of Thin Films of Chiral Organic Dyes. CHEMICAL & BIOMEDICAL IMAGING 2023; 1:471-478. [PMID: 37655166 PMCID: PMC10467535 DOI: 10.1021/cbmi.3c00049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2023] [Revised: 05/19/2023] [Accepted: 05/23/2023] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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We introduce an optical microscopy technique, circularly polarized microscopy or CPM, able to afford spatially resolved electronic circular dichroism (ECD) of thin films of chiral organic semiconductors through a commercial microscope equipped with a camera and inexpensive optics. Provided the dichroic ratio is sufficiently large, the spatial resolution is on the order of the μm and is only limited by the magnification optics integrated in the microscope. We apply CPM to thin films of small chiral π-conjugated molecules, which gave rise to ordered aggregates in the thin layer. Primarily, conventional ECD can reveal and characterize chiral supramolecular structures and possible interferences between anisotropic properties of solid samples; however, it cannot generally account for the spatial distribution of such properties. CPM offers a characterization of supramolecular chirality and of commingling polarization anisotropies of the material, describing their local distribution. To validate CPM, we demonstrated that it can be adopted to quantify the local ECD of samples characterized by intense signals, virtually on any standard optical microscope.
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- Andrea Taddeucci
- Dipartimento
di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, University
of Pisa, Via Moruzzi 13, 56124 Pisa, Italy
- Diamond
Light Source Ltd., Chilton, Didcot OX11 0DE, United
Kingdom
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, University
of Pisa, Via Moruzzi 13, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, University
of Pisa, Via Moruzzi 13, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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Yang S, Zhang S, Hu F, Han J, Li F. Circularly polarized luminescence polymers: From design to applications. Coord Chem Rev 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2023.215116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/30/2023]
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Song I, Ahn J, Ahn H, Lee SH, Mei J, Kotov NA, Oh JH. Helical polymers for dissymmetric circularly polarized light imaging. Nature 2023; 617:92-99. [PMID: 37138111 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05877-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2022] [Accepted: 02/22/2023] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Control of the spin angular momentum (SAM) carried in a photon provides a technologically attractive element for next-generation quantum networks and spintronics1-5. However, the weak optical activity and inhomogeneity of thin films from chiral molecular crystals result in high noise and uncertainty in SAM detection. Brittleness of thin molecular crystals represents a further problem for device integration and practical realization of chiroptical quantum devices6-10. Despite considerable successes with highly dissymmetric optical materials based on chiral nanostructures11-13, the problem of integration of nanochiral materials with optical device platforms remains acute14-16. Here we report a simple yet powerful method to fabricate chiroptical flexible layers via supramolecular helical ordering of conjugated polymer chains. Their multiscale chirality and optical activity can be varied across the broad spectral range by chiral templating with volatile enantiomers. After template removal, chromophores remain stacked in one-dimensional helical nanofibrils producing a homogeneous chiroptical layer with drastically enhanced polarization-dependent absorbance, leading to well-resolved detection and visualization of SAM. This study provides a direct path to scalable realization of on-chip detection of the spin degree of freedom of photons necessary for encoded quantum information processing and high-resolution polarization imaging.
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- Inho Song
- School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Institute of Chemical Processes, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Institute of Chemical Processes, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea
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- School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Institute of Chemical Processes, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Biointerface Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
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- School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Institute of Chemical Processes, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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Xu L, Liu H, Peng X, Shen P, Zhong Tang B, Zhao Z. Efficient Circularly Polarized Electroluminescence from Achiral Luminescent Materials**. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202300492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/17/2023]
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- Letian Xu
- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 China
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- School of Science and Engineering Shenzhen Institute of Aggregate Science and Technology The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Guangdong 518172 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 China
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Zou H, Liu W, Wang C, Zhou L, Liu N, Wu ZQ. Polyfluorene- block-poly(phenyl isocyanide) Copolymers: One-Pot Synthesis, Helical Assembly, and Circularly Polarized Luminescence. Macromolecules 2023. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c01943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/06/2023]
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- Hui Zou
- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Reaction Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui Province 230009, China
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- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Reaction Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui Province 230009, China
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- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Reaction Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui Province 230009, China
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- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Reaction Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui Province 230009, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Jilin University, 1266 Fujin Road, Changchun, Jilin Province 130021, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin Province 130012, China
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Xu L, Liu H, Peng X, Shen P, Tang BZ, Zhao Z. Efficient Circularly Polarized Electroluminescence from Achiral Luminescent Materials. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202300492. [PMID: 36825493 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202300492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2023] [Revised: 02/20/2023] [Accepted: 02/24/2023] [Indexed: 02/25/2023]
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Circularly polarized electroluminescence (CP-EL) is generally produced in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) based on special CP luminescent (CPL) materials, while common achiral luminescent materials are rarely considered to be capable of direct producing CP-EL. Herein, near ultraviolet CPL materials with high photoluminescence quantum yields and good CPL dissymmetry factors are developed, which can induce blue to red CPL for various achiral luminescent materials. Strong near ultraviolet CP-EL with the best external quantum efficiencies (ηext s) of 9.0 % and small efficiency roll-offs are achieved by using them as emitters for CP-OLEDs. By adopting them as hosts or sensitizers, commercially available yellow-orange achiral phosphorescence, thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) and multi-resonance (MR) TADF materials can generate intense CP-EL, with high dissymmetry factors and outstanding ηext s (30.8 %), demonstrating a simple and universal avenue towards efficient CP-EL.
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- Letian Xu
- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- School of Science and Engineering, Shenzhen Institute of Aggregate Science and Technology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518172, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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Liao XJ, Pu D, Yuan L, Tong J, Xing S, Tu ZL, Zuo JL, Zheng WH, Zheng YX. Planar Chiral Multiple Resonance Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials for Efficient Circularly Polarized Electroluminescence. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202217045. [PMID: 36517419 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202217045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2022] [Revised: 12/13/2022] [Accepted: 12/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Chiral boron/nitrogen doped multiple resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescence (MR-TADF) emitters are promising for highly efficient and color-pure circularly polarized organic light-emitting diodes (CP-OLEDs). Herein, we report two pairs of MR-TADF materials (Czp-tBuCzB, Czp-POAB) based on planar chiral paracyclophane with photoluminescence quantum yields of up to 98 %. The enantiomers showed symmetric circularly polarized photoluminescence spectra with dissymmetry factors |gPL | of up to 1.6×10-3 in doped films. Meanwhile, the sky-blue CP-OLEDs with (R/S)-Czp-tBuCzB showed an external quantum efficiency of 32.1 % with the narrowest full-width at half-maximum of 24 nm among the reported CP-OLEDs, while the devices with (R/S)-Czp-POAB displayed the first nearly pure green CP electroluminescence with |gEL | factors at the 10-3 level. These results demonstrate the incorporation of planar chirality into MR-TADF emitter is a reliable strategy for constructing of efficient CP-OLEDs.
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- Xiang-Ji Liao
- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China.,Green Catalysis Center, and College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China.,Green Catalysis Center, and College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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Circularly polarized electroluminescence from a single-crystal organic microcavity light-emitting diode based on photonic spin-orbit interactions. Nat Commun 2023; 14:31. [PMID: 36596798 PMCID: PMC9810703 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-35745-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2022] [Accepted: 12/19/2022] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Circularly polarized (CP) electroluminescence from organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) has aroused considerable attention for their potential in future display and photonic technologies. The development of CP-OLEDs relies largely on chiral-emitters, which not only remain rare owing to difficulties in design and synthesis but also limit the performance of electroluminescence. When the polarization (pseudospin) degrees of freedom of a photon interact with its orbital angular momentum, photonic spin-orbit interaction (SOI) emerges such as Rashba-Dresselhaus (RD) effect. Here, we demonstrate a chiral-emitter-free microcavity CP-OLED with a high dissymmetry factor (gEL) and high luminance by embedding a thin two-dimensional organic single crystal (2D-OSC) between two silver layers which serve as two metallic mirrors forming a microcavity and meanwhile also as two electrodes in an OLED architecture. In the presence of the RD effect, the SOIs in the birefringent 2D-OSC microcavity result in a controllable spin-splitting with CP dispersions. Thanks to the high emission efficiency and high carrier mobility of the OSC, chiral-emitter-free CP-OLEDs have been demonstrated exhibiting a high gEL of 1.1 and a maximum luminance of about 60000 cd/m2, which places our device among the best performing CP-OLEDs. This strategy opens an avenue for practical applications towards on-chip microcavity CP-OLEDs.
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Wade J, Salerno F, Kilbride RC, Kim DK, Schmidt JA, Smith JA, LeBlanc LM, Wolpert EH, Adeleke AA, Johnson ER, Nelson J, Mori T, Jelfs KE, Heutz S, Fuchter MJ. Controlling anisotropic properties by manipulating the orientation of chiral small molecules. Nat Chem 2022; 14:1383-1389. [PMID: 36302869 DOI: 10.1038/s41557-022-01044-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Chiral π-conjugated molecules bring new functionality to technological applications and represent an exciting, rapidly expanding area of research. Their functional properties, such as the absorption and emission of circularly polarized light or the transport of spin-polarized electrons, are highly anisotropic. As a result, the orientation of chiral molecules critically determines the functionality and efficiency of chiral devices. Here we present a strategy to control the orientation of a small chiral molecule (2,2'-dicyano[6]helicene) by the use of organic and inorganic templating layers. Such templating layers can either force 2,2'-dicyano[6]helicene to adopt a face-on orientation and self-assemble into upright supramolecular columns oriented with their helical axis perpendicular to the substrate, or an edge-on orientation with parallel-lying supramolecular columns. Through such control, we show that low- and high-energy chiroptical responses can be independently 'turned on' or 'turned off'. The templating methodologies described here provide a simple way to engineer orientational control and, by association, anisotropic functional properties of chiral molecular systems for a range of emerging technologies.
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- Jessica Wade
- Department of Materials and London Centre for Nanotechnology, Imperial College London, London, UK.
- Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London, UK.
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- Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Materials and London Centre for Nanotechnology, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Japan
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- Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Materials and London Centre for Nanotechnology, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London, UK.
- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, London, UK.
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Su X, Huang Z, Zhong Z, Peng F, Guo T, Hu L, Ying L. Circularly polarized deep-blue polymer light emitting diodes induced by a chiral small molecule dopant. Chem Phys Lett 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2022.140011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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High-efficiency circularly polarized emission from liquid-crystalline platinum complexes. CHINESE CHEM LETT 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2022.107934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Okayasu Y, Wakabayashi K, Yuasa J. Anion-Driven Circularly Polarized Luminescence Inversion of Unsymmetrical Europium(III) Complexes for Target Identifiable Sensing. Inorg Chem 2022; 61:15108-15115. [PMID: 36106989 PMCID: PMC9516667 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Anion-responsive sign inversion of circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) was successfully achieved by N3O6-type nona-coordinated europium(III) (Eu3+) complexes [(R)-1 and (S)-1] composed of a less-hindered unsymmetrical N3-tridentate ligand (a chiral bis(oxazoline) ligand) and three O2-chelating (β-diketonate) ligands. Here, (R)-1 exhibited a positive CPL signal (IL - IR > 0) at the 5D0 → 7F1 transition of Eu3+, which can be changed to a negative sign (i.e., IL - IR > 0 → IL - IR < 0) by the coordination of trifluoroacetic anions (CF3COO-) to the Eu3+ center. However, (R)-1 preserved the original positive CPL signal (i.e., IL - IR > 0 → IL - IR > 0) in the presence of a wide range of competing anions (Cl-, Br-, I-, BF4-, ClO4-, ReO4-, PF6-, OTf-, and SbF6-). Thus, (R)-1 acts as a smart target identifiable probe, where the CPL measurement (IL - IR) can distinguish the signals from the competing anions (i.e., IL - IR < 0 vs IL - IR > 0) and eliminate the background emission (i.e., IL - IR = 0) from the background emitter (achiral luminescent compounds). The presented approach is also promising in terms of bio-inspired optical methodology because it enables nature's developed chiral sensitivity to use circularly polarized light for object identification (i.e., IL - IR = 0 vs | IL - IR | > 0).
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- Yoshinori Okayasu
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan
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Clever C, Wierzbinski E, Bloom BP, Lu Y, Grimm HM, Rao SR, Horne WS, Waldeck DH. Benchmarking Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity Measurements ‐ Towards Meaningful Comparisons of Chiral Biomolecule Spin Polarizations. Isr J Chem 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ijch.202200045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Caleb Clever
- Department of Chemistry University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15260 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15260 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15260 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15260 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15260 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15260 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15260 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15260 USA
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Li J, Peng X, Hou C, Shi S, Ma J, Qi Q, Lai W. Discriminating Chiral Supramolecular Motions by Circularly Polarized Luminescence. Chemistry 2022; 28:e202202336. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.202202336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Junfeng Li
- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays (KLOEID) Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications 9 Wenyuan Road Nanjing 210023 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays (KLOEID) Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications 9 Wenyuan Road Nanjing 210023 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays (KLOEID) Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications 9 Wenyuan Road Nanjing 210023 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays (KLOEID) Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications 9 Wenyuan Road Nanjing 210023 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays (KLOEID) Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications 9 Wenyuan Road Nanjing 210023 China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Southeast University No.2 SEU Road Nanjing 211189 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays (KLOEID) Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications 9 Wenyuan Road Nanjing 210023 China
- Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics (FSCFE) MIIT Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLoFE) Northwestern Polytechnical University Xi'an 710072 China
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Kocaarslan A, Kaya K, Jockusch S, Yagci Y. Phenacyl Bromide as a Single‐Component Photoinitiator: Photoinduced Step‐Growth Polymerization of
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‐Methylindole. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022; 61:e202208845. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.202208845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Azra Kocaarslan
- Department of Chemistry Istanbul Technical University Maslak, Istanbul 34469 Turkey
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- Department of Chemistry Istanbul Technical University Maslak, Istanbul 34469 Turkey
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- Center for Photochemical Sciences Bowling Green State University Bowling Green OH 43403 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Istanbul Technical University Maslak, Istanbul 34469 Turkey
- Centre of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research (CEAMR) and Chemistry Department King Abdulaziz University 80203 Jeddah 21589 Saudi Arabia
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Bhowmick DK, Das TK, Santra K, Mondal AK, Tassinari F, Schwarz R, Diesendruck CE, Naaman R. Spin-induced asymmetry reaction-The formation of asymmetric carbon by electropolymerization. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2022; 8:eabq2727. [PMID: 35947656 PMCID: PMC9365291 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq2727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2022] [Accepted: 06/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We describe the spin polarization-induced chirogenic electropolymerization of achiral 2-vinylpyridine, which forms a layer of enantioenhanced isotactic polymer on the electrode. The product formed is enantioenriched in asymmetric carbon polymer. To confirm the chirality of the polymer film formed on the electrode, we also measured its electron spin polarization properties as a function of its thickness. Two methods were used: First, spin polarization was measured by applying magnetic contact atomic force microscopy, and second, magnetoresistance was assessed in a sandwich-like four-point contact structure. We observed high spin-selective electron transmission, even for a layer thickness of 120 nm. A correlation exists between the change in the circular dichroism signal and the change in the spin polarization, as a function of thickness. The spin-filtering efficiency increases with temperature.
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- Deb Kumar Bhowmick
- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
- Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 103, 41125 Modena, Italy
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- Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3200008 Israel
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- Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3200008 Israel
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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Zhang H, Yang C, Shan S, Wen L, Chen D, Zou G. Signal Inversion and Amplification of Circularly Polarized Luminescence in a Poly(phenylacetylene)-Based Composite System Assisted by Achiral PMMA. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:36157-36165. [PMID: 35882540 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c09861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Multichannel regulable circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) is fascinating because of its fundamental and application interest. There are few reports on helical sense (P-/M-helix) modulation and chiral signal amplification of polyacetylenes with the assistance of achiral polymers and further applications in precisely and conveniently regulating CPL handedness and magnitude. Herein, a helical poly(phenylacetylene)-based CPL-active system was constructed, in which CPL inversion occurred by adding achiral PMMA into a helical poly(phenylacetylene)-CHCl3 solution. Significantly, there is almost 10 times magnification of luminescence dissymmetry factor values (|glum|) during this process. The above phenomena could be ascribed to the PMMA-assisted polyene backbone elongation and the formation of a more ordered helical structure for the poly(phenylacetylene)s. More interestingly, the CPL signal can be facilely inverted and switched by simply changing the thickness of the PPhAD/PMMA layer. The temperature-driven dynamic CPL handedness inversion and magnitude modulation can also be achieved. Based on the multiple regulations for CPL, logic operations were developed, and the practical application is further facilitated by designing various CPL patterns. This study establishes effective and convenient strategies to switch the handedness, magnitude, and wavelength of CPL, which may generate a breakthrough in the manufacturing of CPL-active smart materials and devices with promising application potential.
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- Hongli Zhang
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518055, P. R. China
- CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, iChEM, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, Anhui, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, iChEM, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, Anhui, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, iChEM, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, Anhui, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, iChEM, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, Anhui, P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518055, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, iChEM, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, Anhui, P. R. China
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Toledo LFRB, Turchetti DA, Glislere AP, Nowacki B, Basílio FC, Marletta A, Kowalski EL, Akcelrud L. Correlation of electronic and vibrational properties with the chiro-optical activity of polyfluorene copolymers. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2022; 276:121180. [PMID: 35397447 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2022.121180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2021] [Revised: 03/11/2022] [Accepted: 03/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The rationale of this paper is to shed some light on the origin of the optical response of two similar chiral fluorene copolymers in correlation with their vibrational modes, to understand how a chiral center placed in a ramification affects the optical properties of the main chain. Various spectroscopic ellipsometric techniques, in the scope of the Stokes theory were used to characterize the optical-vibrational behavior of the polyfluorenes: ellipsometry in emission (EE), transmission (TE), and Raman (ERS). The results showed that the optical activity and the emission of the circularly polarized light depends substantially on the interaction of the chiral carbon in the ramification and the main chain through specific optically active vibrational modes, for each sample. One interesting achievement was to find the absolute dextrorotatory configuration of the studied molecules, that could induce a helicoidal structure to the entire material.
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- Luiz F R B Toledo
- Electrical and Material Department, LACTEC Institutes, 81531-980 Curitiba, Parana, Brazil; Integrated Graduate Program in Engineering - PIPE, Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil
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- Chemistry Department, Paulo Scarpa Polymer Laboratory (LaPPS), Federal University of Parana, 81531-990 Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
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- Chemistry Department, Paulo Scarpa Polymer Laboratory (LaPPS), Federal University of Parana, 81531-990 Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
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- Chemistry Department, Paulo Scarpa Polymer Laboratory (LaPPS), Federal University of Parana, 81531-990 Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
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- Institute of Physics, Federal University of Uberlandia, 38400-902 Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Institute of Physics, Federal University of Uberlandia, 38400-902 Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Electrical and Material Department, LACTEC Institutes, 81531-980 Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
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- Integrated Graduate Program in Engineering - PIPE, Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil; Chemistry Department, Paulo Scarpa Polymer Laboratory (LaPPS), Federal University of Parana, 81531-990 Curitiba, Parana, Brazil.
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Morgenroth M, Scholz M, Guy L, Oum K, Lenzer T. Spatiotemporal Mapping of Efficient Chiral Induction by Helicene-Type Additives in Copolymer Thin Films. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022; 61:e202203075. [PMID: 35577763 PMCID: PMC9401025 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202203075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We observed efficient induction of chirality in polyfluorene copolymer thin films by mixing with helicene-type chiral additives based on the dibenzo[c,h]acridine motif. Images obtained from circular dichroism (CD) and circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) microscopy provide information about the chiral arrangements in the thin films with diffraction-limited resolution. The CD signal shows a characteristic dependence on the film thickness, which supports a supramolecular origin of the strong chiral response of the copolymer. In particular, we demonstrate the discrimination between films of opposite chirality based on their ultrafast transient chiral response through the use of femtosecond broadband CD spectroscopy and a newly developed setup for transient CPL spectroscopy with 28 ps time resolution. A systematic variation of the enantiomeric excess of the chiral additive shows that the "Sergeants and Soldiers" concept and "Majority Rules" are not obeyed.
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- Marius Morgenroth
- University of SiegenFaculty IV: School of Science and TechnologyDepartment Chemistry and BiologyPhysical Chemistry 2Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 257076SiegenGermany
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- University of SiegenFaculty IV: School of Science and TechnologyDepartment Chemistry and BiologyPhysical Chemistry 2Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 257076SiegenGermany
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- Univ. LyonENS de LyonCNRS UMR 5182Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Laboratoire de Chimie69342LyonFrance
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- University of SiegenFaculty IV: School of Science and TechnologyDepartment Chemistry and BiologyPhysical Chemistry 2Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 257076SiegenGermany
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- University of SiegenFaculty IV: School of Science and TechnologyDepartment Chemistry and BiologyPhysical Chemistry 2Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 257076SiegenGermany
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Han J, Wang Y, Wang J, Wu C, Zhang X, Yin X. Amplification of circularly polarized luminescence from chiral cyclometalated platinum(II) complexes by the formation of excimer. J Organomet Chem 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2022.122394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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A Theoretical Design of Chiral Molecules through Conformational Lock towards Circularly Polarized Luminescence. PHOTONICS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/photonics9080532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Circularly polarized (CP) light has shown great potential in quantum computing, optical communications, and three-dimensional displays. It is still a challenge to produce high-efficiency and high-purity CP light. Herein, we proposed a strategy to design chiral organic small molecules for CP light generation. These kinds of chiral molecules are formed by achiral light-emitting groups and achiral alkyl chains through conformational lock, which indicates that chirality can also be introduced into achiral light-emitting groups through rational molecular design. The chirality of these molecules can be further tuned by changing the length of the alkyl chains connecting the diketopyrrolopyrrole unit. The chiroptical properties of these molecules are confirmed by calculated electronic circular dichroism and chiral emission spectra, and further confirmed in experiments. The strategy developed in this work will greatly enlarge the candidate library of chiral luminescent materials.
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Kocaarslan A, Kaya K, Jockusch S, Yagci Y. Phenacyl Bromide as a Single‐Component Photoinitiator: Photoinduced Step‐Growth Polymerization of
N
‐Methylpyrrole and
N
‐Methylindole. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202208845] [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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- Azra Kocaarslan
- Department of Chemistry Istanbul Technical University Maslak, Istanbul 34469 Turkey
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- Department of Chemistry Istanbul Technical University Maslak, Istanbul 34469 Turkey
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- Center for Photochemical Sciences Bowling Green State University Bowling Green OH 43403 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Istanbul Technical University Maslak, Istanbul 34469 Turkey
- Centre of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research (CEAMR) and Chemistry Department King Abdulaziz University 80203 Jeddah 21589 Saudi Arabia
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Yang Y, Li N, Miao J, Cao X, Ying A, Pan K, Lv X, Ni F, Huang Z, Gong S, Yang C. Chiral Multi-Resonance TADF Emitters Exhibiting Narrowband Circularly Polarized Electroluminescence with an EQE of 37.2 . Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022; 61:e202202227. [PMID: 35536020 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202202227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Highly efficient circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) emitters with narrowband emission remain a formidable challenge for circularly polarized OLEDs (CP-OLEDs). Here, a promising strategy for developing chiral emitters concurrently featuring multi-resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescence (MR-TADF) and circularly polarized electroluminescence (CPEL) is demonstrated by the integration of molecular rigidity, central chirality and MR effect. A pair of chiral green emitters denoted as (R)-BN-MeIAc and (S)-BN-MeIAc is designed. Benefited by the rigid and quasi-planar MR-framework, the enantiomers not only display mirror-image CPL spectra, but also exhibit TADF properties with a high photoluminescence quantum yield of 96 %, a narrow FWHM of 30 nm, and a high horizontal dipole orientation of 90 % in the doped film. Consequently, the enantiomer-based CP-OLEDs achieved excellent external quantum efficiencies of 37.2 % with very low efficiency roll-off, representing the highest device efficiency of all the reported CP-OLEDs.
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- Yiyu Yang
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Hubei Key Lab on Organic and Polymeric Optoelectronic Materials, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Hubei Key Lab on Organic and Polymeric Optoelectronic Materials, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, P. R. China
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Zhang YP, Zheng YX. Frontiers in chiral phosphorescent complexes for circularly polarized electroluminescence. Dalton Trans 2022; 51:9966-9970. [PMID: 35737413 DOI: 10.1039/d2dt01582j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Materials with circularly polarized luminescence properties have attracted wide attention in recent years. One of the most important applications of these materials is for circularly polarized organic light emitting diodes (CP-OLEDs), which have potential application in 3D displays. Chiral conjugated polymers, small organic molecules and metal complexes have already been employed as emitters for CP-OLEDs. Benefiting from the ability to harvest both singlet and triplet excitons, chiral phosphorescent metal complexes always show outstanding device performance. In this article we briefly discuss the recent progress, current challenges and out look of chiral phosphorescent metal complexes.
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- Yi-Pin Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China. .,Green Catalysis Center, and College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, P. R. China
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Morgenroth M, Scholz M, Guy L, Oum K, Lenzer T. Räumliche und zeitliche Kartierung effizienter chiraler Induktion durch helikale Additive in dünnen Copolymerfilmen. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202203075] [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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- Marius Morgenroth
- Universität Siegen Fakultät IV: Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät Department Chemie und Biologie, Physikalische Chemie 2 Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2 57076 Siegen Deutschland
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- Universität Siegen Fakultät IV: Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät Department Chemie und Biologie, Physikalische Chemie 2 Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2 57076 Siegen Deutschland
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- Univ. Lyon ENS de Lyon CNRS UMR 5182 Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Laboratoire de Chimie 69342 Lyon Frankreich
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- Universität Siegen Fakultät IV: Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät Department Chemie und Biologie, Physikalische Chemie 2 Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2 57076 Siegen Deutschland
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- Universität Siegen Fakultät IV: Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät Department Chemie und Biologie, Physikalische Chemie 2 Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2 57076 Siegen Deutschland
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Biomimetic non-classical crystallization drives hierarchical structuring of efficient circularly polarized phosphors. Nat Commun 2022; 13:3339. [PMID: 35680921 PMCID: PMC9184729 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30989-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2021] [Accepted: 05/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Hierarchically structured chiral luminescent materials hold promise for achieving efficient circularly polarized luminescence. However, a feasible chemical route to fabricate hierarchically structured chiral luminescent polycrystals is still elusive because of their complex structures and complicated formation process. We here report a biomimetic non-classical crystallization (BNCC) strategy for preparing efficient hierarchically structured chiral luminescent polycrystals using well-designed highly luminescent homochiral copper(I)-iodide hybrid clusters as basic units for non-classical crystallization. By monitoring the crystallization process, we unravel the BNCC mechanism, which involves crystal nucleation, nanoparticles aggregation, oriented attachment, and mesoscopic transformation processes. We finally obtain the circularly polarized phosphors with both high luminescent efficiency of 32% and high luminescent dissymmetry factor of 1.5 × 10−2, achieving the demonstration of a circularly polarized phosphor converted light emitting diode with a polarization degree of 1.84% at room temperature. Our designed BNCC strategy provides a simple, reliable, and large-scale synthetic route for preparing bright circularly polarized phosphors. Chiral emitters with high photoluminescence quantum yield are desirable for use in circularly polarized LEDs. The authors demonstrate the transfer of chirality from nanoscale copper iodide clusters to microscale chiral luminescent polycrystals by non-classical crystallization.
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Yang Y, Li N, Miao J, Cao X, Ying A, Pan K, Lv X, Ni F, Huang Z, Gong S, Yang C. Chiral Multi‐Resonance TADF Emitters Exhibiting Narrowband Circularly Polarized Electroluminescence with an EQE of 37.2 %. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202202227] [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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- Yiyu Yang
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials College of Materials Science and Engineering Shenzhen University Shenzhen 518060 P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials College of Materials Science and Engineering Shenzhen University Shenzhen 518060 P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials College of Materials Science and Engineering Shenzhen University Shenzhen 518060 P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials College of Materials Science and Engineering Shenzhen University Shenzhen 518060 P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University Hubei Key Lab on Organic and Polymeric Optoelectronic Materials Wuhan University Wuhan 430072 China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials College of Materials Science and Engineering Shenzhen University Shenzhen 518060 P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials College of Materials Science and Engineering Shenzhen University Shenzhen 518060 P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials College of Materials Science and Engineering Shenzhen University Shenzhen 518060 P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials College of Materials Science and Engineering Shenzhen University Shenzhen 518060 P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University Hubei Key Lab on Organic and Polymeric Optoelectronic Materials Wuhan University Wuhan 430072 China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of New Information Display and Storage Materials College of Materials Science and Engineering Shenzhen University Shenzhen 518060 P. R. China
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Rodríguez R, Naranjo C, Kumar A, Matozzo P, Das TK, Zhu Q, Vanthuyne N, Gómez R, Naaman R, Sánchez L, Crassous J. Mutual Monomer Orientation To Bias the Supramolecular Polymerization of [6]Helicenes and the Resulting Circularly Polarized Light and Spin Filtering Properties. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:7709-7719. [PMID: 35404592 PMCID: PMC9073930 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c00556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We
report on the synthesis and self-assembly of 2,15- and 4,13-disubstituted
carbo[6]helicenes 1 and 2 bearing 3,4,5-tridodecyloxybenzamide
groups. The self-assembly of these [6]helicenes is strongly influenced
by the substitution pattern in the helicene core that affects the
mutual orientation of the monomeric units in the aggregated form.
Thus, the 2,15-substituted derivative 1 undergoes an
isodesmic supramolecular polymerization forming globular nanoparticles
that maintain circularly polarized light (CPL) with glum values as high as 2 × 10–2.
Unlike carbo[6]helicene 1, the 4,13-substituted derivative 2 follows a cooperative mechanism generating helical one-dimensional
fibers. As a result of this helical organization, [6]helicene 2 exhibits a unique modification in its ECD spectral pattern
showing sign inversion at low energy, accompanied by a sign change
of the CPL with glum values of 1.2 ×
10–3, thus unveiling an example of CPL inversion
upon supramolecular polymerization. These helical supramolecular structures
with high chiroptical activity, when deposited on conductive surfaces,
revealed highly efficient electron-spin filtering abilities, with
electron spin polarizations up to 80% for 1 and 60% for 2, as measured by magnetic conducting atomic force microscopy.
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- Rafael Rodríguez
- Univ Rennes, CNRS, ISCR (Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes) - UMR 6226, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, ISCR (Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes) - UMR 6226, F-35000 Rennes, France
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Aix Marseille Université, Centrale Marseille, CNRS, iSm2, UMR 7313, Marseille 13397, France
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Univ Rennes, CNRS, ISCR (Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes) - UMR 6226, F-35000 Rennes, France
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Park J, Kim W, Aggawal Y, Shin K, Choi EH, Park B. Highly Efficient and Stable Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with Inner Passivating Hole-Transfer Interlayers of Poly(amic acid)-Polyimide Copolymer. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2022; 9:e2105851. [PMID: 35088585 PMCID: PMC8948599 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202105851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Ensuring the long-term stability of high-performance organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) has remained a great challenge due to their limited lifetime and durability. Herein, a novel functional interlayer consisting of a poly(amic acid)-polyimide copolymer is introduced for use in OLEDs. It is shown that an OLED sample with a polyimide-copolymer interlayer exhibits high peak brightness of nearly 96 000 cd m-2 and efficiency of ≈92 cd A-1 , much higher than those (≈73 000 cd m-2 and ≈83 cd A-1 ) of a well-organized reference OLED. Moreover, the growth of dark spots is strongly suppressed in the sample OLED and the device lifetime is extended considerably. Further, highly stable and uniform large-area OLEDs are successfully produced when using the interlayer. These improvements are ascribed not only to the excellent film-forming and hole-transferring properties but also to the inner passivating capability of the polyimide-copolymer interlayer. The results here suggest that the introduction of an inner passivating/encapsulating hole-transferable polyimide-copolymer interlayer together with conventional external encapsulation technology represents a promising breakthrough that enhances the longevity of high-performance next-generation OLEDs.
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- Jaewoo Park
- Department of Electrical and Biological PhysicsKwangwoon UniversityWolgye‐DongSeoul01897South Korea
- Department of Plasma‐Bio DisplayKwangwoon UniversityWolgye‐DongSeoul01897South Korea
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- Department of Electrical and Biological PhysicsKwangwoon UniversityWolgye‐DongSeoul01897South Korea
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- Department of Electrical and Biological PhysicsKwangwoon UniversityWolgye‐DongSeoul01897South Korea
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- Department of Electrical and Biological PhysicsKwangwoon UniversityWolgye‐DongSeoul01897South Korea
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- Department of Electrical and Biological PhysicsKwangwoon UniversityWolgye‐DongSeoul01897South Korea
- Department of Plasma‐Bio DisplayKwangwoon UniversityWolgye‐DongSeoul01897South Korea
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- Department of Electrical and Biological PhysicsKwangwoon UniversityWolgye‐DongSeoul01897South Korea
- Department of Plasma‐Bio DisplayKwangwoon UniversityWolgye‐DongSeoul01897South Korea
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Dubey RK, Melle-Franco M, Mateo-Alonso A. Inducing Single-Handed Helicity in a Twisted Molecular Nanoribbon. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:2765-2774. [PMID: 35099195 PMCID: PMC8855342 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c12385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Molecular conformation has an important role in chemistry and materials science. Molecular nanoribbons can adopt chiral twisted helical conformations. However, the synthesis of single-handed helically twisted molecular nanoribbons still represents a considerable challenge. Herein, we describe an asymmetric approach to induce single-handed helicity with an excellent degree of conformational discrimination. The chiral induction is the result of the chiral strain generated by fusing two oversized chiral rings and of the propagation of that strain along the nanoribbon's backbone.
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- Rajeev K Dubey
- POLYMAT, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Avenida Tolosa 72, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
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- CICECO, Aveiro Institute of Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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- POLYMAT, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Avenida Tolosa 72, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain.,Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, 48009 Bilbao, Spain
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Teng JM, Zhang DW, Wang YF, Chen CF. Chiral Conjugated Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Polymers for Highly Efficient Circularly Polarized Polymer Light-Emitting Diodes. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:1578-1586. [PMID: 34962755 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c20244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Two novel chiral conjugated polymers R-P and S-P designed and synthesized from a pair of circularly polarized thermally activated delayed fluorescence (CP-TADF) enantiomers are presented in this work. The two polymers exhibited excellent TADF properties with small singlet-triplet energy gaps (ΔEST) of 0.045 and 0.061 eV and relatively high photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQYs) of 72 and 76%, respectively. Besides, intense mirror-image circularly polarized luminescence signals were detected from R-P and S-P in both solution and film states with dissymmetry factors (|glum|) of up to 1.9 × 10-3. Furthermore, solution-processed circularly polarized polymer light-emitting diodes (CP-PLEDs) fabricated with R-P and S-P achieved high maximum external quantum efficiencies of 14.9 and 15.8% and high maximum brightness (Lmax) of 8940 and 12,180 cd/m2 with yellowish-green emission peaks at 546 and 544 nm, respectively. Moreover, intense circularly polarized electroluminescence signals with electroluminescence dissymmetry factors (gEL) of -1.5 × 10-3 and +1.6 × 10-3 were detected from the CP-PLED devices fabricated with R-P and S-P, respectively.
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- Jin-Ming Teng
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Morgenroth M, Scholz M, Cho MJ, Choi DH, Oum K, Lenzer T. Mapping the broadband circular dichroism of copolymer films with supramolecular chirality in time and space. Nat Commun 2022; 13:210. [PMID: 35017508 PMCID: PMC8752614 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27886-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2021] [Accepted: 12/17/2021] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
Abstract
Measurements of the electronic circular dichroism (CD) are highly sensitive to the absolute configuration and conformation of chiral molecules and supramolecular assemblies and have therefore found widespread application in the chemical and biological sciences. Here, we demonstrate an approach to simultaneously follow changes in the CD and absorption response of photoexcited systems over the ultraviolet-visible spectral range with 100 fs time resolution. We apply the concept to chiral polyfluorene copolymer thin films and track their electronic relaxation in detail. The transient CD signal stems from the supramolecular response of the system and provides information regarding the recovery of the electronic ground state. This allows for a quantification of singlet-singlet annihilation and charge-pair formation processes. Spatial mapping of chiral domains on femtosecond time scales with a resolution of 50 μm and diffraction-limited steady-state imaging of the circular dichroism and the circularly polarised luminescence (CPL) of the films is demonstrated.
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Affiliation(s)
- Marius Morgenroth
- Department Chemistry and Biology, Physical Chemistry 2, Faculty IV: School of Science and Technology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57068, Siegen, Germany
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- Department Chemistry and Biology, Physical Chemistry 2, Faculty IV: School of Science and Technology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57068, Siegen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Research Institute for Natural Sciences, Korea University, 145 Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Research Institute for Natural Sciences, Korea University, 145 Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department Chemistry and Biology, Physical Chemistry 2, Faculty IV: School of Science and Technology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57068, Siegen, Germany.
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- Department Chemistry and Biology, Physical Chemistry 2, Faculty IV: School of Science and Technology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57068, Siegen, Germany.
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Liu L, Yang Y, Wei Z. Chiral Organic Optoelectronic Materials and Circularly Polarized Light Luminescence and Detection. ACTA CHIMICA SINICA 2022. [DOI: 10.6023/a22030123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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