Journal
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 11, Issue 14, Pages 5433-5438Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01545
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51773077]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Recently, organic crystals with mechanical flexibility have been emerging as a hot research topic due to their great potentials in flexible optoelectronics. However, organic crystals exhibiting elastic bending or plastic bending are relatively rare. In this study, we proposed a strategy to improve the probability of crystal flexibility as well as to regulate the mechanical properties by controlling polymorphism. Three different emissive organic polymorphs Cry-G, Cry-Y, and Cry-O with elastic, plastic, and brittle natures, respectively, were obtained by fine-tuning crystallization conditions of a diaryl beta-diketone compound. Cry-G was found to transduce light and amplify the self-waveguided emission efficiently along the crystal body in the elastically bent state, demonstrating its multifunctional applications in flexible optical devices. This study is of great scientific significance not only to engineer mechanical compliance of organic crystals but also to highlight the utility of crystal flexibility.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available