Secondary through-space interactions facilitated single-molecule white-light emission from clusteroluminogens

Jianyu Zhang; Parvej Alam; Siwei Zhang; Hanchen Shen; Lianrui Hu; Herman H. Y. Sung; Ian D. Williams; Jianwei Sun; Jacky W. Y. Lam; Haoke Zhang; Ben Zhong Tang

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31184-9

Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Secondary through-space interactions facilitated single-molecule white-light emission from clusteroluminogens

Jianyu Zhang,
Parvej Alam,
Siwei Zhang,
Hanchen Shen,
Lianrui Hu,
Herman H. Y. Sung,
Ian D. Williams,
Jianwei Sun,
Jacky W. Y. Lam,
Haoke Zhang,
Ben Zhong Tang

Affiliations

Jianyu Zhang: Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Joint Laboratory of Optoelectronic and Magnetic Functional Materials, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Parvej Alam: Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Joint Laboratory of Optoelectronic and Magnetic Functional Materials, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Siwei Zhang: Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Joint Laboratory of Optoelectronic and Magnetic Functional Materials, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hanchen Shen: Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Joint Laboratory of Optoelectronic and Magnetic Functional Materials, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Lianrui Hu: Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Joint Laboratory of Optoelectronic and Magnetic Functional Materials, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Herman H. Y. Sung: Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Joint Laboratory of Optoelectronic and Magnetic Functional Materials, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Ian D. Williams: Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Joint Laboratory of Optoelectronic and Magnetic Functional Materials, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jianwei Sun: Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Joint Laboratory of Optoelectronic and Magnetic Functional Materials, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jacky W. Y. Lam: Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Joint Laboratory of Optoelectronic and Magnetic Functional Materials, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Haoke Zhang: MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University
Ben Zhong Tang: Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Joint Laboratory of Optoelectronic and Magnetic Functional Materials, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31184-9
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Although mature and systematic theories of molecular photophysics have been developed, it is still challenging to endow clusteroluminogens (CLgens) with designed photophysical properties by manipulating through-space interactions. Here, the authors design three CLgens that show multiple emissions and white-light emission in the crystalline state, and emphasize the important role of secondary through-space interactions between the acceptor and non-conjugated donor units.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
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Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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