Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Tuneable near white-emissive two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks

  • Xing Li,
  • Qiang Gao,
  • Juefan Wang,
  • Yifeng Chen,
  • Zhi-Hui Chen,
  • Hai-Sen Xu,
  • Wei Tang,
  • Kai Leng,
  • Guo-Hong Ning,
  • Jishan Wu,
  • Qing-Hua Xu,
  • Su Ying Quek,
  • Yixin Lu,
  • Kian Ping Loh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04769-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Encoding functionalities in covalent organic frameworks (COFs) is important for widening their application field but the development of fluorescent COFs is hampered by a lack of guiding design principles. Here the authors demonstrate tuning and switching of the photoluminescence in 2D COFs made of non-emissive building blocks.