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Yan Wang1, Huanling Liu1, Yuzhi Song1
1Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing Technology, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China.
Abstract:
Organic room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) emitters with long lifetimes, high exciton utilizations, and tunable emission properties show promising applications in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and biomedical fields. Their excited-state properties are highly related to single molecular structure, aggregation morphology, and external stimulus (such as hydrostatic pressure effect). To gain a deeper understanding and effectively regulate the key factors of luminescent efficiency and lifetime for RTP emitters, we employ the thermal vibration correlation function (TVCF) theory coupled with quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) calculations to investigate the photophysical properties of three reported RTP crystals (Bp-OEt, Xan-OEt, and Xan-OMe) with elastic/plastic deformation. By analyzing the geometric structures and stacking modes of these crystals, we observe that the geometric structure variations influence the electronic structures, subsequently modifying the transition properties and the energy consumption processes. Specifically, the presence of strong π-π interactions and hydrogen bonds in the Xan-OEt crystal inhibits a nonradiative decay process, thereby realizing long-lived emission. Additionally, the hybridized local and charge-transfer (HLCT) excited-state feature with the largest charge transfer excitation contributions (57.74%) for Xan-OEt stabilizes the triplet excitons and facilitates the radiative decay process, ultimately achieving high efficiency and long lifetime emissions. Furthermore, by applying high hydrostatic pressure for the Bp-OEt crystal, the RTP emission efficiencies and lifetimes are enhanced and blue-shifted. All of these results demonstrate the crucial role of molecular structure and stacking modes as well as the hydrostatic pressure effect in regulating RTP properties. Thus, our findings reveal the structure-packing-property relationship and highlight the control of molecular packing and the related tunable approaches, which could provide prospective strategies for constructing stimuli-responsive RTP emitters in practical applications.
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