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Fabrication of Polymer Microspheres for Optical Resonator and Laser Applications
Published on: June 2, 2017
Self-encapsulation or picket-fence? An answer to molecular designs of highly solid-state luminescent conjugated
Tsuneaki Sakurai1, Kyota Ohkura1, Teruyoshi Ikeda1
1Faculty of Molecular Chemistry and Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Hashikami-cho, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan. sakurai@kit.ac.jp.
Abstract:
Both self-encapsulation and picket-fence molecular designs are individually applied to three types of phenylene-based conjugated polymers for reducing the interchain interactions and enhancing the solid-state luminescence. We discovered that all the picket-fence polymers show higher photoluminescence quantum yields in solid films than the corresponding self-encapsulated analogues despite their less bulky substituents.

