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Yihan Chen1, Zhaoran Xu1, Wenrui Hu2
1Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China.
Abstract:
With the rapid development on 3D printing technology, more and more works have been devoted to 3D display. 3D display will really come true by using circularly polarized luminescence (CPL)-active materials with both high quantum yield and dissymmetry factor (gem ) in organic light-emitting diode or liquid crystals (LCs). But so far most of these CPL materials cannot meet the real application requirement because of the low gem values in the range of 10-5 -10-2 . In this paper, ternary chiral emissive LCs (P-N*-LCs) is designed by doping chiral binaphthyl-based enantiomers as chiral dopant (Guest 1) and achiral conjugated polymer as induced CPL emitter (Guest 2) into nematic liquid crystal (N-LCs) Host 5CB. Both Guest 1 and Guest 2 show excellent compatibility with Host 5CB. The obtained ternary P-N*-LCs can emit strong-induced CPL signal with gem up to 1.12 and ФFL up to 66.1%. This work first develops a new strategy for the smart design of excellent CPL materials from versatile achiral conjugation fluorescence polymers.
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