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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 13, Issue 25, Pages 7429-7436Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d2sc01947g
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- Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation [JQ20003]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21771021, 21822501, 22061130206]
- Newton Advanced Fellowship award [NAF\R1\201285]
- Fok Ying-Tong Education Foundation [171008]
- Measurements Fund of Beijing Normal University
- State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing
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This paper reports a new type of Zn(ii)-organic halide microcrystals with fluorescence and room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) dual emission, which can be used as active waveguides. These waveguide systems exhibit stable structures and colorful photonic signals at extreme temperatures. By regulating the molecular self-assembly, thermally assisted spectral separation of fluorescence and RTP can be achieved.
Information security of photonic communications has become an important societal issue and can be greatly improved when photonic signals are propagated through active waveguides with tunable wavelengths in different time and space domains. Moreover, the development of active waveguides that can work efficiently at extreme temperatures is highly desirable but remains a challenge. Herein, we report new types of low-dimensional Zn(ii)-organic halide microcrystals with fluorescence and room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) dual emission for use as 1D color-tunable active waveguides. Benefiting from strong intermolecular interactions (i.e., hydrogen bonds and pi-pi interactions), these robust waveguide systems exhibit colorful photonic signals and structural stability at a wide range of extreme simulated temperatures (>300 K), that covers natural conditions on Earth, Mars, and the Moon. Both experimental and theoretical studies demonstrate that the molecular self-assembly can regulate the singlet and triplet excitons to allow thermally assisted spectral separation of fluorescence and RTP, in combination with the single-component standard white-light emission. Therefore, this work demonstrates the first use of metal-organic halide microcrystals as temperature-gating active waveguides with promising implications for high-security information communications and high-resolution micro/nanophotonics.
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