Room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)of purely organic materials is easily quenched with unexpected purposes because the excited triplet state is extremely susceptible to external stimuli.How to stabilize the RTP prop...Room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)of purely organic materials is easily quenched with unexpected purposes because the excited triplet state is extremely susceptible to external stimuli.How to stabilize the RTP property of purely organic luminogens is still challenging and considered as the bottleneck in the further advancement of the bottom-up approach.Here,we describe a gated strategy that can effectively harness RTP by employing complexation/dissociation with proton.Due to the order-disorder transition orientation of intermolecular packing,the RTP of organic molecules 2,4,6-tris(4′-bromo-[1,1′-biphenyl]-4-yl)-1,3,5-triazine(Br-TRZ)will easily vanish upon mechanical force.Impressively,by enhancing its intramolec-ular charge transfer effect,the protonated Br-TRZ stubbornly possesses an obvious RTP under external grinding,whatever in the ordered or disordered intermolec-ular arrangement state.Consequently,the“Lock”gate of RTP was achieved in the protonated Br-TRZ molecule.Combined with theoretical calculation analy-sis,the enhanced charge transfer effect can narrow the energy gap singlet-tripletsignificantly,and stabilize the RTP property of triazine derivative sequentially.Fur-thermore,the locked RTP can be tuned via proton and counterions repeatedly and show excellent reversibility.This gated RTP concept provides an effective strategy for stabilizing the RTP emission of purely organic systems.展开更多
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant/Award Numbers:22272109,21908146,21875143,22075184,21700102,22002039The Innovation Research Foundation of Shenzhen,Grant/Award Numbers:JCYJ20220818095807016,JCYJ20210324095406017The Foundation of Characterization Technique(Institute for Advanced Study,Central South University)。
文摘Room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)of purely organic materials is easily quenched with unexpected purposes because the excited triplet state is extremely susceptible to external stimuli.How to stabilize the RTP property of purely organic luminogens is still challenging and considered as the bottleneck in the further advancement of the bottom-up approach.Here,we describe a gated strategy that can effectively harness RTP by employing complexation/dissociation with proton.Due to the order-disorder transition orientation of intermolecular packing,the RTP of organic molecules 2,4,6-tris(4′-bromo-[1,1′-biphenyl]-4-yl)-1,3,5-triazine(Br-TRZ)will easily vanish upon mechanical force.Impressively,by enhancing its intramolec-ular charge transfer effect,the protonated Br-TRZ stubbornly possesses an obvious RTP under external grinding,whatever in the ordered or disordered intermolec-ular arrangement state.Consequently,the“Lock”gate of RTP was achieved in the protonated Br-TRZ molecule.Combined with theoretical calculation analy-sis,the enhanced charge transfer effect can narrow the energy gap singlet-tripletsignificantly,and stabilize the RTP property of triazine derivative sequentially.Fur-thermore,the locked RTP can be tuned via proton and counterions repeatedly and show excellent reversibility.This gated RTP concept provides an effective strategy for stabilizing the RTP emission of purely organic systems.
