Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

Regio- and conformational isomerization critical to design of efficient thermally-activated delayed fluorescence emitters

  • Marc K. Etherington,
  • Flavio Franchello,
  • Jamie Gibson,
  • Thomas Northey,
  • Jose Santos,
  • Jonathan S. Ward,
  • Heather F. Higginbotham,
  • Przemyslaw Data,
  • Aleksandra Kurowska,
  • Paloma Lays Dos Santos,
  • David R. Graves,
  • Andrei S. Batsanov,
  • Fernando B. Dias,
  • Martin R. Bryce,
  • Thomas J. Penfold,
  • Andrew P. Monkman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14987
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The search for brighter emitting materials is essential to the development of OLED devices. Etheringtonet al. show how the presence of two regioisomers of a donor-acceptor-donor thermally-activated delayed fluorescence molecule affects the device efficiency, with one acting as a triplet quencher.