Supramolecular hydrogen-bonded chiral networks enable blue circularly polarized emission from polymeric carbon
Sourav Mal1,2, Youngsin Park3, Deblina Das2
1Department of Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, Republic of Korea. atanujana@dongguk.edu.
Abstract:
All-organic circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) emitters acting as intrinsic liquid polarizers provide a promising route to reduce optical crosstalk and enhance spatial resolution in displays by directly emitting circularly polarized light, thereby eliminating external polarizers and minimizing energy loss. Herein, we report a highly efficient, all-organic CPL-active liquid polarizer based on chiral organic binary composites (COBCs), in which camphorquinone-derived chiral inducers are integrated with polymeric carbon quantum dots (PCQDs), opening a previously unexplored pathway toward chiral organic-quantum dot composites. The composites exhibit intense blue emission with a photoluminescence quantum yield (PL QY) of 64%, and strong enantioselective CPL with luminescence dissymmetry factors (glum ≈ ±10-2). Circular dichroism spectroscopy reveals multiple Cotton effects with high absorption anisotropy (gabs = 1.2 × 10-2), while time-resolved photoluminescence and electrochemical analyses indicate that hydrogen-bonded chiral networks promote charge transfer and generate intrinsic chiral fields enabling selective CPL emission. A prototype device based on COBCs achieves a spatial resolution of 4 lp mm-1, nearly double that of achiral analogues, while effectively suppressing glare and enhancing image contrast. Our findings establish a design strategy for transforming achiral CQDs into CPL-active materials, opening pathways toward next-generation, energy-efficient photonic and display technologies.
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