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Synthesis of Single-Crystalline Core-Shell Metal-Organic Frameworks
Published on: February 10, 2023
Blue Emitting Single Crystalline Assembly of Metal Halide Clusters
Chenkun Zhou1, Haoran Lin1, Michael Worku2
1Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering , FAMU-FSU College of Engineering , Tallahassee , Florida 32310 , United States.
Abstract:
The rich chemistry of organic-inorganic metal halide hybrids has enabled the development of a variety of crystalline structures with controlled morphological and molecular dimensionalities. Here we report for the first time a single crystalline assembly of metal halide clusters, (C9NH20)7(PbCl4)Pb3Cl11, in which lead chloride tetrahedrons (PbCl42-) and face-sharing lead chloride trimer clusters (Pb3Cl115-) cocrystallize with organic cations (C9NH20+) to form a periodical zero-dimensional (0D) structure at the molecular level. Blue light emission peaked at 470 nm with a photoluminescence quantum efficiency (PLQE) of around 83% was realized for this single crystalline hybrid material, which is attributed to the individual lead chloride clusters. Our discovery of single crystalline assembly of metal halide clusters paves a new path to functional cluster assemblies with highly tunable structures and remarkable properties.
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