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Biao Chen1, Wenhuan Huang1, Hao Su1
1Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, 96 Jinzhai Rd, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China.
Abstract:
Organic luminogens with persistent room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) have found a wide range of applications. However, many RTP luminogens are prone to severe quenching in the crystalline state. Herein, we report a strategy to construct a donor-sp3 -acceptor type luminogen that exhibits aggregation-induced emission (AIE) while the donor-sp2 -acceptor counterpart structure exhibits a non-emissive solid state. Unexpectedly, it was discovered that a trace amount (0.01 %) of the structurally similar derivative, produced by a side reaction with the DMF solvent, could induce strong RTP with an absolute RTP yield up to 25.4 % and a lifetime of 48 ms, although the substance does not show RTP by itself. Single-crystal XRD-based calculations suggest that n-σ* orbital interactions as a result of structural similarity may be responsible for the strong RTP in the bicomponent system. This study provides a new insight into the design of multi-component, solid-state RTP materials from organic molecular systems.
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