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Fabrication of White Light-emitting Electrochemical Cells with Stable Emission from Exciplexes
Published on: November 15, 2016
Controllable three-component luminescence from a 1,8-naphthalimide/Eu(III) complex: white light emission from a
Alexander H Shelton1, Igor V Sazanovich, Julia A Weinstein
1Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7HF, UK.
Abstract:
A macrocycle-appended naphthalimide derivative and its Eu(III) complex show triple luminescence from isolated naphthalimide (blue), aggregated naphthalimide excimers (green) and Eu centres (red) with the balance being sensitive to the degree of aggregation, allowing white light emission to be obtained from a single molecule.
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