Disorder‐Enhanced Charge‐Transfer‐Mediated Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence in Polymer Media

Abstract Room‐temperature phosphorescence (RTP) polymers have important applications for biological imaging, oxygen sensing, data encryption, and photodynamic therapy. Despite the many advantages polymeric materials offer such as great control over gas permeability and processing flexibility, disord...

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Published inAngewandte Chemie International Edition Vol. 62; no. 45; p. e202312627
Main Authors Cheng, Aoyuan, Su, Hao, Gu, Xuewen, Zhang, Wei, Zhang, Baicheng, Zhou, Meng, Jiang, Jun, Zhang, Xuepeng, Zhang, Guoqing
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Weinheim Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 06.11.2023
EditionInternational ed. in English
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Summary:Abstract Room‐temperature phosphorescence (RTP) polymers have important applications for biological imaging, oxygen sensing, data encryption, and photodynamic therapy. Despite the many advantages polymeric materials offer such as great control over gas permeability and processing flexibility, disorder is traditionally considered as an intrinsic negative impact on the efficiency for embedded RTP luminophores, as various allowed thermal motions could quench the emitting states. However, we propose that such disorder‐enabled freedoms of microscopic motions can be beneficial for charge‐transfer‐mediated RTP, which is facilitated by molecular conformational changes among different electronic transition states. Using the “classic” pyrene‐aniline exciplex as an example, we demonstrate the mutual enhancement of red/near‐infrared and green RTP emissions from the pyrene and aniline moieties, respectively, upon doping the aniline polymer with trace pyrene derivatives. In comparison, a pyrene‐doped crystal formed with the same aniline structure exhibits only charge‐transfer fluorescence with no red or green RTP observed, suggesting that order suppresses the RTP channels. The proposed polymerization strategy may be used as a unified method to generate multi‐emissive polymeric RTP materials from a vast pool of known and unknown exciplexes and charge‐transfer complexes.
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ISSN:1433-7851
1521-3773
DOI:10.1002/anie.202312627