Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Biao Zhao, Huanyu Ma, Haoran Jia, Mengyun Zheng, Kunxiang Xu, Runnan Yu, Songnan Qu, Zhan'ao Tan
Summary: Two types of triphenylamine-derived solid-state emissive carbon dots (CDs) are synthesized through solvothermal treatment, exhibiting orange and yellow color. The nonplanar structure and good carrier mobility of the triphenylamine unit effectively inhibit the direct pi-pi stacking and enhance the fluorescence properties of the CDs in aggregation state. Using the CDs as single emissive layer, high-performance orange and green electroluminescent light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are fabricated, achieving high brightness, current efficiency, and low turn-on voltage. This work provides a versatile platform for the construction of novel solid-state emissive CDs with potential applications in photoelectric devices.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Junjuan Shi, Wei Xu, Hao Yu, Xing Wang, Feng Jin, Qingming Zhang, Houyu Zhang, Qiming Peng, Alim Abdurahman, Ming Wang
Summary: Luminescent metal-radicals have gained attention for their potential applications in materials science. However, the luminescence of metal-radicals tends to decrease after forming metallo-complexes. This study presents a highly luminescent metallo-supramolecular radical cage (LMRC) constructed from a tritopic terpyridinyl ligand RL with a TTM radical and Zn2+. LMRC shows a remarkable photoluminescence quantum yield and high photostability. Additionally, LMRC exhibits significant magnetoluminescence at high concentrations, indicating negligible spin-spin interactions between radical centers.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Optics
Longheng Qi, Peian Li, Xu Zhang, Ka Ming Wong, Kei May Lau
Summary: A prototype of full-color micro-LED micro-display with a pixel density of 391 ppi is demonstrated using InGaN/AlGaInP heterogeneous integration. This display shows the feasibility and prospects of high brightness, good color performance, and high-resolution micro-LED micro-displays in future metaverse applications.
LIGHT-SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Applied
M. L. Ligi, A. Abhilash, Sreekanth J. Varma, P. A. Unnikrishnan, S. Prathapan, S. Jayalekshmi
Summary: Two novel segmented block copolymers, NPPV1 and NPPV2, were synthesized and characterized for their substituent effects on properties, structure-property relationships, and suitability for polymer light emitting diodes. The study highlighted the importance of cost-effective synthesis methods in developing polymers for efficient LED design in high frequency blue emission.
Article
Optics
Jinpeng Huang, Zelin Hu, Xiang Gao, Yi Xu, Liancheng Wang
Summary: This study proposes a single-chip micro-LED display technology with unidirectional emission through the integration of a resonant cavity and metasurface, which can achieve efficient naked-eye 3D display with a wide viewing angle and multiple viewpoints. The research promotes the application of GaN-based micro-LEDs in displays, especially in 3D displays.
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Sheng-Nan Zou, Chen-Chen Peng, Sheng-Yi Yang, Yang-Kun Qu, You-Jun Yu, Xing Chen, Zuo-Quan Jiang, Liang-Sheng Liao
Summary: Three emissive bridged-triphenylamine derivatives incorporating carbon, oxygen, and sulfur atoms with two carbonyl groups exhibit potential as narrowband thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters. Organic light-emitting diodes based on these derivatives achieve high external quantum efficiencies for blue, green, and yellow emissions.
Article
Chemistry, Applied
Vladislav M. Korshunov, Timofey N. Chmovzh, Alexandra Ya Freidzon, Mikhail E. Minyaev, Artem D. Barkanov, Ivan S. Golovanov, Lyudmila V. Mikhalchenko, Igor C. Avetisov, Ilya V. Taydakov, Oleg A. Rakitin
Summary: In this study, two near-infrared emitting dyes were synthesized as active emitting layer in OLEDs, which showed fast luminescence and tunable emission properties. The emission maximum was redshifted by introducing linkers and modifying the geometry. The dyes demonstrated high quantum efficiencies and were used to fabricate OLEDs.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yi-Hui He, Feng-Ming Xie, Hao-Ze Li, Kai Zhang, Yang Shen, Feng Ding, Cheng-Yuan Wang, Yan-Qing Li, Jian-Xin Tang
Summary: In this study, a strategy of modulating the predominance of locally excited (LE)/charger transfer (CT) states by introducing peripheral electron-donating units in a boron-carbazole containing backbone (BNCz) was demonstrated. Four TADF emitters were developed, achieving full-color emission and nearly 100% photoluminescence quantum yield (f(PL)). The device employing BN-PZ as a dopant exhibited orange-red emission with an electroluminescence (EL) peak at 612 nm, and showed high external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 25.0% and low efficiency roll-off at high brightness.
MATERIALS CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS
(2023)
Review
Polymer Science
Jiaxi Xu, Nikos Hadjichristidis
Summary: The incorporation of heteroatom-containing weak bonds along polymer backbones has become a popular tool to accelerate degradation. Many methods have been reported for the synthesis of degradable heteroatom-containing polymers based on step-growth polymerization and chain-growth ring-opening polymerization. Ring-opening metathesis polymerization has emerged as an approach for the synthesis of various types of degradable polymers. This review covers the synthesis of different heteroatom-containing degradable polymers via ring-opening metathesis polymerization and their degradation mechanisms under different conditions.
PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Guanting Liu, Hisahiro Sasabe, Kengo Kumada, Amane Matsunaga, Hiroshi Katagiri, Junji Kido
Summary: The study developed two highly efficient green-emitting MR-TADF emitters, DMAc-BN and PXZ-BN, using a one-pot borylation method. These emitters exhibited high external quantum efficiencies and small full width at half maximum values in OLEDs. The design successfully addressed aggregation-induced quenching issues faced by MR-TADF emitters in the past.
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
(2021)
Article
Optics
Meng Tian, Huabin Yu, Muhammad Hunain Memon, Zhanyong Xing, Chen Huang, Hongfeng Jia, Haochen Zhang, Danhao Wang, Shi Fang, Haiding Sun
Summary: Micro-LEDs with smaller inclined chip sidewall angles exhibit improved external quantum efficiency due to stronger reflection of the inclined sidewall, leading to enhanced light extraction efficiency. The EQE improvement by adopting an inclined sidewall is more significant as the diameter of the LED chip reduces. Numerical optical modeling further verifies the impact of sidewall angles on the light extraction efficiency of micro-LEDs.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Daniel Blasco, Rinat T. Nasibullin, Rashid R. Valiev, Dage Sundholm
Summary: Delayed fluorescence from molecules with an inverted singlet-triplet gap is studied computationally, and the effect of gold(I) metalation and coordination on optical properties is investigated. The results suggest that this new family of complexes may be the first organometallic DFIST emitters reported.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Subeesh Madayanad Suresh, Le Zhang, David Hall, Changfeng Si, Gaetano Ricci, Tomas Matulaitis, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, Stuart Warriner, Yoann Olivier, Ifor D. W. Samuel, Eli Zysman-Colman
Summary: NOBNacene is a rare example of a p- and n-doped nonacene compound with linearly extended ladder-type multiresonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence (MR-TADF) emission. It exhibits efficient narrow deep blue emission with a PL wavelength of 410 nm, FWHM of 38 nm, PL quantum yield of 71%, and delayed lifetime of 1.18 ms. The OLED using NOBNacene as the emitter shows a comparable electroluminescence spectrum with a peak at 409 nm and a maximum external quantum efficiency (EQE(max)) of 8.5% at CIE coordinates of (0.173, 0.055). The EQE(max) is increased to 11.2% with 3 wt% doping of the emitter in the emissive layer, resulting in a slightly broadened electroluminescence spectrum with CIE coordinates of (0.176, 0.068).
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Man Wang, Han-Shu Li, Xin Ding, Lizan Jiang, Pengyan Wu, Ruiting Zheng, Guoyue Bao, Guoliang Liu, Jian Wang
Summary: In this study, a luminescent porous organic network (PON) connected by imine linkages was successfully synthesized. The PON showed strong fluorescence in water and demonstrated high selectivity and sensitivity for the detection of Cr(vi) species (CrO42- and Cr2O72-) in a turn-off manner. The possible luminescence sensing mechanism and the adsorption capacity of Cr(vi) were also discussed in detail.
DALTON TRANSACTIONS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Zhennan Zhao, Yuchao Liu, Lei Hua, Shouke Yan, Zhongjie Ren
Summary: This study proposes a strategy to improve the light-emitting performance of conjugated polymers by adjusting the local electronegativity of the polymer backbone. It also demonstrates the impact of strongly electronegative atoms on the charge-transfer properties of TADF polymers, leading to a rapid reverse intersystem crossing process through vibronic coupling.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
(2022)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Sheng-Yi Yang, Yang-Kun Qu, Liang-Sheng Liao, Zuo-Quan Jiang, Shuit-Tong Lee
Summary: Organic semiconductors with pi-stacked structures show efficient through-space interaction and improved spatial electron communication. Designing materials with pi-stacked motifs can lead to aggregation-induced emission, thermally activated delayed fluorescence, circularly polarized luminescence, room-temperature phosphorescence, and enhanced molecular conductance.
ADVANCED MATERIALS
(2022)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Qi-Sheng Tian, Wan-Shan Shen, Yan-Jun Yu, Xue-Qi Wang, Jia-Heng Cai, Yun Hu, Zuo-Quan Jiang, Jing-Song Huang, Liang-Sheng Liao
Summary: This study presents a systematic strategy for designing small molecular hybrid white OLEDs via blade-coating, achieving uniform films, balanced charge carrier transport, and high efficiency of light emission. The ease of improving film morphology and energy-level matching through this method offers significant potential in the display and flat panel lighting industries.
ORGANIC ELECTRONICS
(2022)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Sheng-Yi Yang, Qi-Sheng Tian, Xiang-Ji Liao, Zheng-Guang Wu, Wan-Shan Shen, You-Jun Yu, Zi-Qi Feng, You-Xuan Zheng, Zuo-Quan Jiang, Liang-Sheng Liao
Summary: This study presents the first ever circularly polarized thermally activated delayed fluorescence molecule with a carbonyl-/sulfone-bridged triarylamine structure. Circularly polarized light emission is achieved through intramolecular steric hindrance and intramolecular space charge transfer. The molecule exhibits good quantum yield and clear circularly polarized luminescence in solution.
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
(2022)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
You-Jun Yu, Sheng-Nan Zou, Chen-Chen Peng, Zi-Qi Feng, Yang-Kun Qu, Sheng-Yi Yang, Zuo-Quan Jiang, Liang-Sheng Liao
Summary: A new thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitter BOQAO was designed and synthesized, which showed blue fluorescence emission and delayed fluorescence properties through the synergistic effect of two cores. It also effectively suppressed the spectral broadening phenomenon.
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Fan-Cheng Kong, Sheng-Yi Yang, Xiang-Ji Liao, Zi-Qi Feng, Wan-Shan Shen, Zuo-Quan Jiang, Dong-Ying Zhou, You-Xuan Zheng, Liang-Sheng Liao
Summary: This work presents a novel hot exciton fluorescent material based on benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazole and chiral binaphthol, which enables circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) through a chiral perturbation strategy. The molecule displays both CPL and hybridized local and charge transfer (HLCT) properties concurrently. Circularly polarized organic light-emitting diodes (CP-OLEDs) utilizing this material as the emitter achieve high external quantum efficiency (EQE) and moderate circularly polarized electroluminescence (CPEL) dissymmetry factor. Furthermore, sensitivity to a thermally activated delayed fluorescence material significantly improves the efficiency of HLCT fluorescent CP-OLEDs.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yang-Kun Qu, Dong-Ying Zhou, Fan-Cheng Kong, Qi Zheng, Xun Tang, Yuan-Hao Zhu, Chen-Chao Huang, Zi-Qi Feng, Jian Fan, Chihaya Adachi, Liang-Sheng Liao, Zuo-Quan Jiang
Summary: In this study, we propose a method for constructing highly efficient MR-TADF emitters by introducing spiro-9,9'-bifluorene (SBF) units and adopting a mono-substituted design strategy. The results demonstrate that the SF1BN molecule exhibits high device efficiency and narrow-band emission, which is of significant importance for improving the performance of MR-TADF devices.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Fan-Cheng Kong, Yuan-Lan Zhang, Cassandre Quinton, Nemo McIntosh, Sheng-Yi Yang, Joelle Rault-Berthelot, Fabien Lucas, Clement Brouillac, Olivier Jeannin, Jerome Cornil, Zuo-Quan Jiang, Liang-Sheng Liao, Cyril Poriel
Summary: Efficient host materials for phosphorescent OLEDs (PhOLEDs) have traditionally been constructed with heteroatoms, but this approach increases design complexity and instability. This study demonstrates the use of pure aromatic hydrocarbon materials as highly efficient hosts for white and blue PhOLEDs, achieving comparable or higher efficiency compared to heteroatom-based hosts. These findings suggest that pure aromatic hydrocarbon materials offer a promising alternative for the future development of the OLED industry.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Sheng-Yi Yang, Zi-Qi Feng, Zhiyuan Fu, Kai Zhang, Song Chen, You-Jun Yu, Bo Zou, Kai Wang, Liang-Sheng Liao, Zuo-Quan Jiang
Summary: The pi-stacked thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) material SDMAC exhibits multi-stimulus response properties, leading to efficient OLED manufacturing and various potential applications.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Xin-Yue Meng, Zi-Qi Feng, You-Jun Yu, Liang-Sheng Liao, Zuo-Quan Jiang
Summary: By utilizing thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters, two blue TADF emitters with high device efficiency and color purity have been constructed and successfully applied in OLED devices.
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
You-Jun Yu, Fu-Ming Liu, Xin-Yue Meng, Ling-Yi Ding, Liang-Sheng Liao, Zuo-Quan Jiang
Summary: Carbonyl-containing derivatives have shown great potential in the field of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials, especially in the construction of multi-resonance TADF emitters. Researchers have summarized the current progress in both traditional and MR-type ketone derivatives with TADF characteristics, and introduced molecular design strategies for maintaining high device efficiency and narrow-band emission profile.
CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Zi-Qi Feng, Sheng-Yi Yang, Fan-Cheng Kong, Yang-Kun Qu, Xin-Yue Meng, You-Jun Yu, Dong-Ying Zhou, Zuo-Quan Jiang, Liang-Sheng Liao
Summary: This study reports two TSCT-TADF emitters and successfully enhances their luminescent properties by controlling the molecular configuration without directly modifying the donor or acceptor. The emitter with the fluorine moiety exhibits more evident electrostatic repulsive force onto the central structure, resulting in higher external quantum efficiency.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yuan-Lan Zhang, Sheng-Yi Yang, Zi-Qi Feng, Yang-Kun Qu, Dong-Ying Zhou, Cheng Zhong, Liang-Sheng Liao, Zuo-Quan Jiang
Summary: The power efficiency (PE) at high brightness in white organic light-emitting diodes (WOLEDs) has been significantly enhanced by utilizing pi-stacked host molecular with spirofluorene scaffold. This unique molecular design has led to high external quantum efficiencies (EQEs) in RGB monochromic OLEDs and record-high current efficiency (CE), PE, and EQE in warm WOLEDs, surpassing conventional fluorescent tubes in performance without the need for any light extraction technique.
SCIENCE CHINA-CHEMISTRY
(2022)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Peng Zuo, Yang-Kun Qu, Qi Zheng, Liang-Sheng Liao, Zuo-Quan Jiang
Summary: Sensitized organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have received extensive attention due to their improvements in exciton utilization. This review systematically summarizes the mechanisms of sensitized OLEDs, including phosphorescent, TADF, and exciplex sensitizers. It also introduces the functions and selection criteria of sensitizers for different types of sensitized OLEDs. The hope is that this review will assist researchers in designing highly efficient and long-lasting sensitized OLEDs.
MATERIALS CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jing-Feng Liu, Sheng-Nan Zou, Xing Chen, Sheng-Yi Yang, You-Jun Yu, Man-Keung Fung, Zuo-Quan Jiang, Liang-Sheng Liao
Summary: This study investigates the influence of linking moieties on the efficiency of MR-TADF emitters. The results show that weakening the D-A interaction between the substituents and the MR core can enhance the photoluminescence quantum yield and external quantum efficiency of the emitters.
MATERIALS CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS
(2022)