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Fan Liu1, Jin Tu, Xiaorui Wang
1Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China. lizhen@whu.edu.cn lichemlab@163.com.
Abstract:
Two isomers of mm-TPE(PI)2 and pp-TPE(PI)2, constructed by the two same aromatic blocks of tetraphenylethene and phenanthro[9,10-d]imidazole, exhibit totally different mechanoluminescence, as a result of the ignorable different linkage positions on the tetraphenylethene moiety. Detailed analysis and theoretical calculations demonstrate the structure-packing-property relationship of organic mechanoluminescent luminogens, with the emphasis on the important role of molecular packing in the solid state.
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