Journal
ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS
Volume 10, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adom.202102264
Keywords
fluorene-based conjugated molecules; optical stability; stable organic light-emitting diodes; supersecondary structures; ultra-deep-blue emission
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Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20200700]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [22075136, 61874053]
- Natural Science Funds of the Education Committee of Jiangsu Province [18KJA430009]
- High-Level Talents in Six Industries of Jiangsu Province [XYDXX-019]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2021M692623]
- open research fund from Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Environment-friendly Polymer Materials and Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials Science and Technology, Research Innovation in University of Jiangsu Province [KYCX21_0771, KYCX21_0772, KYCX21_1097]
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Organic conjugated molecules can self-assemble into nanostructures, but supersecondary structures are rarely reported for non-amphiphilic molecules. This study reports a nanowire architecture as a supersecondary structure to improve emission efficiency and stability.
Organic conjugated molecules with a rigid rod-like pi-backbone structure automatically and easily self-assemble into an anisotropic nanostructure. However, supersecondary structures obtained from the hierarchical secondary self-assembly of nanostructures have rarely been reported for non-amphiphilic conjugated molecules. Here, a nanowire architecture as a supersecondary structure from an ultra-deep-blue fluorene-based conjugated molecule (FCz-C8-Am) to improve the emission efficiency and stability is reported. In significant contrast to the four reference molecules, the FCz-C8-Am molecules grow into soft nanowires and further self-assemble into a series of nanowire architectures in the gelation process. This is associated with the synergistic effect of the hydrogen bonds among the amide units, pendant pi-pi stacking interactions between pendant Cz units, and appropriate soft steric interaction among side-chains, which are the three design requirements for preparing these nanowire architectures. Interestingly, this supersecondary architecture of FCz-C8-Am has a stable ultra-deep-blue emission, with an efficiency of approximate to 77% and a Commission Internationale de L'Eclairage (CIE) value of (0.16, 0.06) in the solid state. These findings provide a profound understanding of the relationship between the inherent molecular structure, supramolecular interaction, and supersecondary nano-architecture, offering useful information for the development of new functional optoelectronic materials.
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