Elucidating the Excited State of Mechanoluminescence in Organic Luminogens with Room-Temperature Phosphorescence.

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl

Department of Chemistry, Hubei Key Lab on Organic and Polymeric Opto-Electronic Materials, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China.

Published: November 2017


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Two stable, purely organic luminogens exhibit both mechano- (ML) and photoluminescence (PL) with dual fluorescence-phosphorescence emissions at room temperature. Careful analysis of the crystal structures, coupled with theoretical calculations, demonstrate that room-temperature phosphorescence and ML properties are strongly related to molecular packing. In particular, the formation and fracture of molecular dimers with intermolecular charge-transfer properties has a significant effect on intersystem crossing, as well as excited triplet state emissions, in both PL and ML processes.

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