Achieving high singlet-oxygen generation by applying the heavy-atom effect to thermally activated delayed fluorescent

Ya-Fang Xiao1, Jia-Xiong Chen1, Wen-Cheng Chen2

  • 1Center of Super-Diamond and Advanced Films (COSDAF) and Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 999077, P. R. China. apcslee@cityu.edu.hk and Joint Laboratory of Nano-Organic Functional Materials and Devices (TIPC and CityU), City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. China.

Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 19, 2021
PubMed

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