1. Manipulating spatial alignment of donor and acceptor in host–guest MOF for TADF‡.
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Liu, Xiao-Ting, Hua, Weijie, Nie, Hong-Xiang, Chen, Mingxing, Chang, Ze, and Bu, Xian-He
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DELAYED fluorescence ,TRIAZINES ,EXCITED states ,METAL-organic frameworks ,CHARGE transfer ,ELECTRONIC structure ,TIME-resolved measurements ,ELECTRON donors - Abstract
Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) was achieved when electron-rich triphenylene (Tpl) donors were confined to a cage-based porous metal-organic framework (MOF) host (NKU-111) composed of electron-deficient 2,4,6-tri(pyridin-4-yl)-1,3,5-triazine (Tpt) acceptor as the ligand. The spatially separated donor and acceptor molecules in a face-to-face stacking pattern generated strong through-space charge transfer (CT) interactions with a small energy splitting between the singlet and triplet excited states (∼0.1 eV), which enabled TADF. The resulting Tpl@NKU-111 exhibited an uncommon enhanced emission intensity as the temperature increased. Extensive steady-state and time-resolved spectroscopic measurements and first-principles simulations revealed the chemical and electronic structure of this compound in both the ground and low-lying excited states. A double-channel (T
1 , T2 ) intersystem crossing mechanism with S1 was found and explained as single-directional CT from the degenerate HOMO−1/HOMO of the guest donor to the LUMO+1 of one of the nearest acceptors. The rigid skeleton of the compound and effective through-space CT enhanced the photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY). A maximum PLQY of 57.36% was achieved by optimizing the Tpl loading ratio in the host framework. These results indicate the potential of the MOFs for the targeted construction and optimization of TADF materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2022
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