Journal
SCIENCE CHINA-MATERIALS
Volume 64, Issue 11, Pages 2813-2823Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s40843-021-1658-9
Keywords
molecular packing; conformation; mechanochromism; room temperature phosphorescence
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21875130]
- Starting Foundation of Tianjin University
- Project of 100 Talents Program of Shanxi Province
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This study focused on the different optical properties resulting from different molecular packing modes in aggregates. The two polymorphs of DBTDO-DMAC exhibited distinct properties, with one showing mechanochromism and the other displaying room-temperature phosphorescence. Careful analyses revealed that the emissive behaviors are highly related to the molecular conformation and packing modes, providing guidance for designing other luminogens with similar properties.
The phenomenon that different molecular packing modes in aggregates result in different optical properties has attracted intense attention, since it can provide useful information to establish the relationship between the micro- and macro-world. In this paper, DBTDO-DMAC was designed with 9,10-dihydro-9,9-dimethylacridine (DMAC) as electron donor. DBTDO-DPA and DBTDO-Cz were designed for comparison, which adopted diphenylamine (DPA) with twisted structure and carbazole (Cz) with planar structure as donors, respectively. As expected, two polymorphs (Crystal G and Crystal Y) of DBTDO-DMAC were obtained and exhibited distinct properties. Crystal G originating from planar conformation exhibited mechanochromism (MC) phenomenon and the emission color changed from green to yellow with a redshift of 35 nm after grinding. Nevertheless, Crystal Y with folded conformation displayed obvious room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) with yellow afterglow. Careful single crystal analyses, powder X-ray diffraction and theoretical calculation reveal that the different emissive behaviors are highly related to the molecular conformation and packing modes. The successful adjustment of molecular conformation provides some guidance in the design of other MC and/or RTP luminogens, broadens the molecule family with the tunable molecular conformation and opens up a new avenue for exploring possible adjustment of molecular packing in aggregates.
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