Nature Communications (Nov 2019)
Ultralong UV/mechano-excited room temperature phosphorescence from purely organic cluster excitons
- Xuepeng Zhang,
- Lili Du,
- Weijun Zhao,
- Zheng Zhao,
- Yu Xiong,
- Xuewen He,
- Peng Fei Gao,
- Parvej Alam,
- Can Wang,
- Zhen Li,
- Jing Leng,
- Junxue Liu,
- Chuanyao Zhou,
- Jacky W. Y. Lam,
- David Lee Phillips,
- Guoqing Zhang,
- Ben Zhong Tang
Affiliations
- Xuepeng Zhang
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Centre for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Institute for Advanced Study, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Lili Du
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong
- Weijun Zhao
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Centre for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Institute for Advanced Study, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Zheng Zhao
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Centre for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Institute for Advanced Study, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Yu Xiong
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Centre for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Institute for Advanced Study, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Xuewen He
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Centre for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Institute for Advanced Study, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Peng Fei Gao
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Centre for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Institute for Advanced Study, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Parvej Alam
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Centre for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Institute for Advanced Study, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Can Wang
- Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University
- Zhen Li
- Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University
- Jing Leng
- State Key Laboratory for Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Junxue Liu
- State Key Laboratory for Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Chuanyao Zhou
- State Key Laboratory for Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Jacky W. Y. Lam
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Centre for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Institute for Advanced Study, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- David Lee Phillips
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong
- Guoqing Zhang
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China
- Ben Zhong Tang
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Centre for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Institute for Advanced Study, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13048-x
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
Purely organic ultralong room temperature phosphorescence (URTP) attracts attention but high efficiencies are rarely achieved. Here the authors use ultrafast spectroscopy to investigate a system of 1,8-naphthalic anhydride in organic hosts and reveal that a cluster exciton forms as a transient state before the guest acts as an energy trap for the URTP state.
