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Tateyama A, Nagura K, Yamanaka M, Nakanishi T. Alkyl-π Functional Molecular Gels: Control of Elastic Modulus and Improvement of Electret Performance. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024; 63:e202402874. [PMID: 38512717 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202402874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2024] [Revised: 03/15/2024] [Accepted: 03/20/2024] [Indexed: 03/23/2024]
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The development of optoelectronically-active soft materials is drawing attention to the application of soft electronics. A room-temperature solvent-free liquid obtained by modifying a π-conjugated moiety with flexible yet bulky alkyl chains is a promising functional soft material. Tuning the elastic modulus (G') is essential for employing optoelectronically-active alkyl-π liquids in deformable devices. However, the range of G' achieved through the molecular design of alkyl-π liquids is limited. We report herein a method for controlling G' of alkyl-π liquids by gelation. Adding 1 wt % low-molecular-weight gelator formed the alkyl-π functional molecular gel (FMG) and increased G' of alkyl-π liquids by up to seven orders of magnitude while retaining the optical properties. Because alkyl-π FMGs have functional π-moieties in the gel medium, this new class of gels has a much higher content of π-moieties of up to 59 wt % compared to conventional π-gels of only a few wt %. More importantly, the gel state has a 23 % higher charge-retention capacity than the liquid, providing better performance in deformable mechanoelectric generator-electret devices. The strategy used in this study is a novel approach for developing next-generation optoelectronically-active FMG materials.
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- Akito Tateyama
- Division of Soft Matter, Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Kita 10, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan
- Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan
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- Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan
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- Meiji Pharmaceutical University (MPU), 2-522-1 Noshio, Kiyose, 204-8588, Japan
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- Division of Soft Matter, Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Kita 10, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan
- Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan
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Wakchaure VC, Channareddy G, Babu SS. Solvent-Free Organic Liquids: An Efficient Fluid Matrix for Unexplored Functional Hybrid Materials. Acc Chem Res 2024; 57:670-684. [PMID: 38350079 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.3c00670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/15/2024]
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ConspectusThe invention of solvent-free organic liquids (SOLs) was serendipitous. However, the curiosity-driven research in the later stage delivered new soft materials with exciting optical, and optoelectronic properties along with appealing physical characteristics suitable for the futuristic applications. A slight change in the molecular design resulted in a drastic change in the physical state of molecules demonstrating monomer-like features in the bulk. The basic idea of core isolation has been successful in delivering new SOLs with attractive functional properties. The unique fluid matrix associated with SOLs offers a tremendous opportunity for making hybrid materials by simple mixing. The chance to study the fundamentally important electron transfer, energy transfer, charge transfer interactions, triplet-state emissions, and even detailed NMR experiments in the solvent-free neat state is the major attraction of SOLs. Usually, solvents and their polarity control such molecular properties, and in the case of SOLs, it avoids the use of solvents to study such fundamentally important properties. Besides, SOLs protect the triplet emitters and excited state processes involving triplet states from quenchers and make the analysis possible under ambient conditions.Our effort in this direction was focused on tuning the ground and excited state properties by transforming conventional organic molecules to SOLs and further value addition by preparing the hybrid SOLs. We developed a series of hybrid SOLs, exploring room-temperature phosphorescence, thermally activated delayed fluorescence, charge or energy transfer between donor and acceptor SOLs, selective explosive sensing, etc. A slight variation in the chemical structure or optoelectronic properties of the individual components imparted exciting optical features for the hybrid SOLs. It includes nonemissive charge transfer, tunable emission exciplex, room temperature phosphorescence, and thermally activated delayed fluorescence SOLs. The liquid matrix of donor SOLs accommodated varying amounts of acceptor SOLs to tune the ground and excited state features. In all examples of donor-acceptor-based hybrid SOLs, even a low amount of acceptor, such as a donor-acceptor ratio of 1000:1, can cause pronounced optical properties. Hence, the evaluation of the optical properties of SOLs, especially, in the absence of solvents is so special that it avoids the interference of solvent molecules. Still, the major drawback of SOLs remains unsolved until we report polymerizable SOLs. Although a large variety of SOLs have been reported in the literature, the long-lasting problem of surface stickiness of SOLs was resolved by polymerizable SOLs. It enabled the development of flexible, foldable, and stretchable large-area luminescent films suitable for lighting and display devices. In this Account, we summarize our work on SOLs, hybrid SOLs, polymerizable SOLs, and the application of SOLs in selective sensing of explosives. Finally, an outlook on the feasibility of luminescent polymerizable SOLs in futuristic applications is provided.
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- Vivek Chandrakant Wakchaure
- Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune-411008, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad-201002, India
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- Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune-411008, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad-201002, India
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- Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune-411008, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad-201002, India
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Ikeshita M, Ichinose M, Tsuno T. Luminescent solvent-free liquids based on Schiff-base boron difluoride complexes with polyethylene glycol chains. SOFT MATTER 2024; 20:2178-2184. [PMID: 38351893 DOI: 10.1039/d3sm01590d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/29/2024]
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A series of Schiff-base boron difluoride complexes with polyethylene glycol chains were synthesized and their photophysical properties were examined. These complexes maintained the solvent-free liquid state even at room temperature and their glass transition temperatures (Tg) were determined to be around -40 °C. The complexes showed blue to yellow luminescence under UV irradiation in the solvent-free liquid state with good emission quantum yields (Φ) of up to 0.26. The luminescence colour could also be tuned by dissolving organic dyes in the blue luminescent liquid sample. Density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent (TD) DFT calculations were performed to further understand the photophysical properties.
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- Masahiro Ikeshita
- Department of Applied Molecular Chemistry, College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, Narashino, Chiba 275-8575, Japan.
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- Department of Applied Molecular Chemistry, College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, Narashino, Chiba 275-8575, Japan.
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- Department of Applied Molecular Chemistry, College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, Narashino, Chiba 275-8575, Japan.
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Ruiz-Arias A, Fueyo-González F, Izquierdo-García C, Navarro A, Gutiérrez-Rodríguez M, Herranz R, Burgio C, Reinoso A, Cuerva JM, Orte A, González-Vera JA. Exchangeable Self-Assembled Lanthanide Antennas for PLIM Microscopy. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024; 63:e202314595. [PMID: 37991081 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202314595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2023] [Revised: 11/08/2023] [Accepted: 11/22/2023] [Indexed: 11/23/2023]
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Lanthanides have unique photoluminescence (PL) emission properties, including very long PL lifetimes. This makes them ideal for biological imaging applications, especially using PL lifetime imaging microscopy (PLIM). PLIM is an inherently multidimensional technique with exceptional advantages for quantitative biological imaging. Unfortunately, due to the required prolonged acquisitions times, photobleaching of lanthanide PL emission currently constitutes one of the main drawbacks of PLIM. In this study, we report a small aqueous-soluble, lanthanide antenna, 8-methoxy-2-oxo-1,2,4,5-tetrahydrocyclopenta[de]quinoline-3-phosphonic acid, PAnt, specifically designed to dynamically interact with lanthanide ions, serving as exchangeable dye aimed at mitigating photobleaching in PLIM microscopy in cellulo. Thus, self-assembled lanthanide complexes that may be photobleached during image acquisition are continuously replenished by intact lanthanide antennas from a large reservoir. Remarkably, our self-assembled lanthanide complex clearly demonstrated a significant reduction of PL photobleaching when compared to well-established lanthanide cryptates, used for bioimaging. This concept of exchangeable lanthanide antennas opens new possibilities for quantitative PLIM bioimaging.
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- Alvaro Ruiz-Arias
- Nanoscopy-UGR Laboratory. Departamento de Fisicoquímica, Unidad de Excelencia de Química Aplicada a Biomedicina y Medioambiente, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Granada, Campus Cartuja, 18071, Granada, Spain
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- Instituto de Química Médica (IQM-CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006, Madrid, Spain
- Current address: Department of Medicine, Translational Transplant Research Center, Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
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- Departamento de Química Física y Analítica, Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales, Universidad de Jaén, 23071, Jaén, Spain
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- Instituto de Química Médica (IQM-CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006, Madrid, Spain
- PTI-Global Health CSIC, Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Química Médica (IQM-CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular II, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Granada, Campus Cartuja, 18071, Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular II, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Granada, Campus Cartuja, 18071, Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Unidad de Excelencia de Química Aplicada a Biomedicina y Medioambiente, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Campus Fuentenueva, 18071, Granada, Spain
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- Nanoscopy-UGR Laboratory. Departamento de Fisicoquímica, Unidad de Excelencia de Química Aplicada a Biomedicina y Medioambiente, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Granada, Campus Cartuja, 18071, Granada, Spain
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- Nanoscopy-UGR Laboratory. Departamento de Fisicoquímica, Unidad de Excelencia de Química Aplicada a Biomedicina y Medioambiente, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Granada, Campus Cartuja, 18071, Granada, Spain
- Instituto de Química Médica (IQM-CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006, Madrid, Spain
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Behera KC, Ravikanth M. A white light emitting single halochromic hydrazine bridged bis(3-pyrrolyl BODIPY) fluorophore. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:32584-32593. [PMID: 37999923 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp04234k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2023]
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In search of white light emitting fluorophores, a hydrazine bridged Schiff base compound, bis(3-pyrrolyl BODIPY), was synthesized by condensing readily available α-formyl 3-pyrrolyl BODIPY with hydrazine hydrate in CH3OH under reflux for 5 h followed by recrystallization. Bis(3-pyrrolyl BODIPY) was thoroughly characterized by HR-MS, 1D and 2D NMR, and X-ray crystallography. The X-ray structure revealed that the 3-pyrrolyl BODIPY units in the dyad were arranged trans to each other with respect to the hydrazine moiety. Bis(3-pyrrolyl BODIPY) showed absorption bands in the region of 390-705 nm and exhibited multiple fluorescence bands in the region of 395-720 nm at different excitation wavelengths. The protonated derivative of bis(3-pyrrolyl BODIPY) generated by the addition of TFA to its CH2Cl2 solution showed significant changes in the optical properties and generated white fluorescence under UV light with specific emission bands observed in blue, green, and red regions, indicating that bis(3-pyrrolyl)BODIPY is a single white light emitting halochromic fluorophore under acidic conditions. DFT and TD-DFT studies justify the structural and electronic properties of the protonated derivative of bis(3-pyrrolyl BODIPY) exhibiting white light emission.
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- Kanhu Charan Behera
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India.
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Wen X, Du S, Zhang L, Liu M. Chiral Deep Eutectic Solvents Enable Full-Color and White Circularly Polarized Luminescence from Achiral Luminophores. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202311816. [PMID: 37743623 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202311816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2023] [Revised: 09/20/2023] [Accepted: 09/21/2023] [Indexed: 09/26/2023]
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Herein, chiral deep eutectic solvents (DES) are prepared by lauric acid as hydrogen bond donors (HBD) and chiral menthol as hydrogen bond acceptors (HBA). When achiral fluorescent molecules are dopedin the menthol-based chiral DES, they emit circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) with handedness controlled by the molecular chirality (l or d) of menthol. Remarkably, the strategy is universal and a series of achiral fluorescent molecules can be endowed with CPL activity, showing a full-color and white CPL upon appropriate mixing, which paves the way to prepare white CPL materials. Interestingly, CPL appears only in a certain temperature range in the DES. Variable-temperature spectra and other characterization methods reveal that the H-bond network in the chiral DES plays an important role in inducing CPL. This work unveils how the interior structure as well as the hydrogen-bond network of a chiral DES can transfer its chirality to achiral luminophores for the first time and realizes a full-color and white CPL in a DES.
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- Xin Wen
- Key Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), ZhongGuanCun North First Street 2, Beijing, 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), ZhongGuanCun North First Street 2, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), ZhongGuanCun North First Street 2, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), ZhongGuanCun North First Street 2, Beijing, 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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Wakchaure VC, Veer SD, Nidhankar AD, Kumar V, Narayanan A, Babu SS. Polymerizable Solvent-free Organic Liquids: A New Approach for Large Area Flexible and Foldable Luminescent Films. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202307381. [PMID: 37384373 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202307381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Revised: 06/29/2023] [Accepted: 06/29/2023] [Indexed: 06/30/2023]
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The high demand for light-emitting and display devices made luminescent organic materials as attractive candidates. Solvent-free organic liquids are one of the promising emitters among them due to the salient features. However, the inherent limitations of forming sticky and noncurable surfaces must be addressed to become an alternate emitter for large-area device applications. Herein, we functionalized solvent-free organic liquids having monomeric emission in bulk with polymerizable groups to improve the processability. The polymerizable group on carbazole, naphthalene monoimide, and diketopyrrolopyrrole-based solvent-free liquid emitters enabled on-surface polymerization. These emitters alone and in combinations can be directly coated on a glass substrate without the help of solvents. Subsequent photo or thermal polymerization leads to stable, non-sticky, flexible, foldable, and free-standing large-area films with reasonably high quantum yield. Our demonstration of the tunable and white light-emitting films using polymerizable solvent-free liquids might be a potential candidate in flexible/foldable/stretchable electronics. The new concept of polymerizable liquid can be extended to other functional features suitable for futuristic applications.
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- Vivek Chandrakant Wakchaure
- Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune, 411008, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, 201 002, India
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- Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune, 411008, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, 201 002, India
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- Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune, 411008, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, 201 002, India
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- Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune, 411008, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, 201 002, India
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- Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune, 411008, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, 201 002, India
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- Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune, 411008, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, 201 002, India
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Yamamoto Y, Lu F, Nakanishi T, Hayashi S. Liquid Structures and Diffusion Dynamics of Alkyl-Pyrene Liquids Studied by Molecular Dynamics Simulations. J Phys Chem B 2023. [PMID: 37093669 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c08385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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Functional molecular liquids (FMLs) based on alkylated π-conjugated molecules have attracted attention as solvent-free and nonvolatile liquid materials with prominent optoelectronic features. Recently, novel FML compounds containing pyrene as the functional core were synthesized, and their rheological and photochemical properties were investigated. Although the molecules differ only in the number of alkyl chain substituents and their substitution positions, their viscosity coefficients are largely different beyond the Stokes-Einstein relation on the assumption of identical microscopic friction, indicating that local microscopic molecular interactions are crucial for the macroscopic rheological properties. Here, we report a theoretical study on the rheological properties of the alkyl-pyrene liquids by means of atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. We performed long-time MD simulations for tens of microseconds to obtain ample statistical samples of the alkyl-pyrene liquids and analyzed their liquid structures and diffusion dynamics based on spatiotemporal correlation functions. We found the formation of characteristic local liquid structures of π-π stacking of the pyrene moieties and locally anisotropic and anomalous diffusion dynamics, which remarkably vary depending on the alkyl substituent patterns. The present results provide an atomistic insight into the macroscopic rheological properties of alkyl-π FMLs and molecular design strategy for them.
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- Yuki Yamamoto
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Oiwake-Cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8052, Japan
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Oiwake-Cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8052, Japan
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Chen CH, Liu C, Liu B. The effect of alkoxyl groups on the photoproperties of meta-octasubstituted tetraphenyl porphyrins. INORG CHEM COMMUN 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.inoche.2022.110139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Stretchable π-conjugated polymer electrets for mechanoelectric generators. Polym J 2022. [DOI: 10.1038/s41428-022-00725-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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AbstractElectrets are materials that retain quasi-permanent electric charges and are attracting attention as key components of batteryless micropower supplies. A chemical structure that facilitates ionization and that can stabilize these charges, such as a π-conjugated system, is expected to increase the charge density compared with that of conventional insulating polymers. Here, we report a mechanoelectric generator (MEG) (vibrational energy harvester) that uses alkylated π-conjugated polymers (Alk-CPs), which can be monopolarized either into positive or negative mode electrets. With the attachment of insulating, bulky, yet flexible alkyl side chains to the π-conjugated backbone, the poled Alk-CPs showed long charge lifetime suitable for MEGs. The elastic modulus of the electret was adjusted to approximately match that of the stretchable polyurethane substrate by blending two miscible Alk-CPs with different elastic moduli, producing a laminated film that could be stretched up to 300%. The MEG presented showed conformability when applied to a deformable object.
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Zhang G, Yu L, Chen J, Dong R, Godbert N, Li H, Hao J. Artificial Light-Harvesting System with White-Light Emission in a Bicontinuous Ionic Medium. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:8999-9006. [PMID: 36149259 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Artificial light-harvesting systems (ALHSs), which are closely related to Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET), are among the most attractive scientific topics during the past few decades. Specifically, binary ALHSs that are composed of a fluid donor and acceptor have a simplified composition and high number density of the donor units. However, largely due to the difficulty in obtaining a fluid donor, investigation of these systems is still quite limited, especially for the ionic systems. Herein, we report a new type of binary ALHS using an ionic naphthalimide (NPI) derivative as a donor, which shows greatly improved photoluminescence for its bicontinuous liquid structure. When blending with an acceptor such as rhodamine 6G or trans-4-[4-(dimethylamino)styryl]-methylpyridinium iodide, efficient FRET was confirmed by both experimental results and molecular dynamics simulations, with an energy transfer efficiency up to ∼90%. Tunable color, including white-light emission, was achieved by tuning the acceptor/donor ratio, opening the door for a variety of applications such as light-emitting diodes and photoluminescent inks.
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- Geping Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China
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- Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266061, China
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China
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- MAT_INLAB (Laboratorio di Materiali Molecolari Inorganici), Centro di Eccelenza CEMIF.CAL, LASCAMM CR-INSTM della Calabria, Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologie Chimiche, Università della Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende, Cosenza, Italy
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China
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Wang XD, Song Y, Pei WY, Ma JF. Single-Component White Light Emission from a Metal-Coordinated Cyclotriveratrylene-Based Coordination Polymer. Inorg Chem 2022; 61:10768-10773. [PMID: 35786953 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c00974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A coordination polymer, namely, [Cd3L(H2O)3]·DMA·4H2O (1) (DMA = N,N-dimethylacetamide), was prepared by the solvothermal reaction of cyclotriveratrylene-based ligand 5,6,12,13,19,20-hexacarboxy-methoxy-cyclotriveratrylene (H6L) and Cd(NO3)2·4H2O. In 1, a two-dimensional structure was constructed by the connection of hexanuclear Cd-O clusters and L6- anions. Photoluminescence measurements indicated that 1 displayed tunable photoluminescence through the variation of the excitation wavelength. Significantly, the white light emission of 1 can be observed with a broad excitation wavelength range from 320 to 385 nm. When 1 is excited by 385 nm light, its chromatic coordinate is (0.29, 0.34), which is located very close to the pure white light region (0.33, 0.33). Meanwhile, the color temperature (CCT) is 7994 K, which corresponds well to "cold" white light.
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- Xiao-Dan Wang
- Key Laboratory of Polyoxometalate and Reticular Material Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polyoxometalate and Reticular Material Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polyoxometalate and Reticular Material Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polyoxometalate and Reticular Material Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
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Fu R, Yu L, Zhang J, Yu H, Feng S, Xu XD. Facile construction of aggregation-induced emission molecular liquids via Piers-Rubinsztajn reaction for green fluorescent ink. CHINESE CHEM LETT 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2021.10.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Wakchaure VC, Veer SD, Nidhankar AD, Goudappagouda, Nayak R, Asokan K, Ravindranathan S, Babu SS. Donor-acceptor based solvent-free organic liquid hybrids with exciplex emission and room temperature phosphorescence. Chem Commun (Camb) 2022; 58:1998-2001. [PMID: 35048089 DOI: 10.1039/d1cc07082g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Solvent-free organic liquids are well-known for their excellent luminescence features. Hence, the recent developments in this area have marked them as potential emitters with high quantum yield and enhanced processability. The support of an available liquid matrix enables doping to deliver hybrid liquids with intriguing luminescence features. In this direction, we report solvent-free liquid donor-acceptor pairs with exciplex emission and room temperature phosphorescence at very low acceptor loading. The underlying weak intermolecular interactions have been revealed by 2D NMR techniques and theoretical calculations. The formation of large-area thin films by exciplex and phosphorescent liquid hybrids will encourage the development of scalable lighting and display materials.
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- Vivek Chandrakant Wakchaure
- Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411008, India. .,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201 002, India
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- Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411008, India. .,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201 002, India
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- Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411008, India. .,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201 002, India
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- Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411008, India. .,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201 002, India
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- Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411008, India.
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- Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411008, India.
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201 002, India.,Central NMR Facility, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411008, India
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- Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411008, India. .,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201 002, India
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Paradiz Dominguez M, Demirkurt B, Grzelka M, Bonn D, Galmiche L, Audebert P, Brouwer AM. Fluorescent Liquid Tetrazines. Molecules 2021; 26:molecules26196047. [PMID: 34641592 PMCID: PMC8512366 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26196047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2021] [Revised: 09/22/2021] [Accepted: 09/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Tetrazines with branched alkoxy substituents are liquids at ambient temperature that despite the high chromophore density retain the bright orange fluorescence that is characteristic of this exceptional fluorophore. Here, we study the photophysical properties of a series of alkoxy-tetrazines in solution and as neat liquids. We also correlate the size of the alkoxy substituents with the viscosity of the liquids. We show using time-resolved spectroscopy that intersystem crossing is an important decay pathway competing with fluorescence, and that its rate is higher for 3,6-dialkoxy derivatives than for 3-chloro-6-alkoxytetrazines, explaining the higher fluorescence quantum yields for the latter. Quantum chemical calculations suggest that the difference in rate is due to the activation energy required to distort the tetrazine core such that the nπ*S1 and the higher-lying ππ*T2 states cross, at which point the spin-orbit coupling exceeding 10 cm-1 allows for efficient intersystem crossing to occur. Femtosecond time-resolved anisotropy studies in solution allow us to measure a positive relationship between the alkoxy chain lengths and their rotational correlation times, and studies in the neat liquids show a fast decay of the anisotropy consistent with fast exciton migration in the neat liquid films.
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- Maximilian Paradiz Dominguez
- Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands; (M.P.D.); (B.D.)
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- Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands; (M.P.D.); (B.D.)
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- Institute of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands; (M.G.); (D.B.)
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- Institute of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands; (M.G.); (D.B.)
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- PPSM, ENS Cachan, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay, 94235 Cachan, France; (L.G.); (P.A.)
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- PPSM, ENS Cachan, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay, 94235 Cachan, France; (L.G.); (P.A.)
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- Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands; (M.P.D.); (B.D.)
- Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography, Science Park 106, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Li J, Wang JH, Cao XJ, Li XD, Ren XK, Yu ZQ. Peripherally Modified Tetraphenylethene: Emerging as a Room-Temperature Luminescent Disc-Like Nematic Liquid Crystal. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:35207-35213. [PMID: 34279082 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c10243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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A blue-light-emitting liquid crystalline (LC) material was designed and prepared. By employing a twisted luminescent core (i.e., tetraphenylethene), four peripheral LC units with long alkyl chains and the small polar benzyl-ether-typed linking groups, the resulting material displayed a hexagonal columnar phase near room temperature and a disc-like nematic phase between 32 and 70 °C. The columnar LC showed a high quantum yield of 0.49 at 20 °C, and the efficient luminescence property was retained even in the isotropic phase at high temperature. Additionally, the fluidity of the nematic phase rendered the LC a non-volatile solvent, and the proper addition of a red dye led to the achievement of polarized white-light emission, which revealed a promising application prospect in LC display fabrication.
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- Jiahua Li
- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Low-Dimensional Materials Genome Initiative, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518071, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Low-Dimensional Materials Genome Initiative, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518071, P. R. China
- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Low-Dimensional Materials Genome Initiative, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518071, P. R. China
- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Low-Dimensional Materials Genome Initiative, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518071, P. R. China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Low-Dimensional Materials Genome Initiative, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518071, P. R. China
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Wakchaure VC, Das T, Ravindranathan S, Santhosh Babu S. An excimer to exciplex transition through realization of donor-acceptor interactions in luminescent solvent-free liquids. NANOSCALE 2021; 13:10780-10784. [PMID: 34124717 DOI: 10.1039/d1nr02190g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Luminescent solvent-free organic liquids are known for their enhanced quantum yield, color tunability, and availability of a matrix for other dopants to generate hybrid luminescent materials with improved features for newer applications. Herein, we report a donor-acceptor based luminescent "exciplex liquid" by utilizing the slightly different electron affinity of the acceptor molecules. A red-shifted broad exciplex emission exhibited by the donor-acceptor pair even at a lower concentration of the acceptor (0.001 equiv.) indicates high efficiency in the solvent-free state. A detailed NMR study revealed weak intermolecular interactions between the donor and acceptor in the solvent-free matrix that stabilizes the exciplex liquid. The failure of structurally similar solid counterparts to form an exciplex confirms the advantage of the available supportive liquid matrix. Besides, the luminescent exciplex liquid is found efficient in sensing application, which is unachievable by either the individual liquids or their solid counterparts. Here, a transition of a donor-acceptor pair from a solid to solvent-free liquid results in a new hybrid liquid that can be an alternative for solid sensor materials.
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- Vivek Chandrakant Wakchaure
- Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune-411008, India. and Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad-201 002, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad-201 002, India and Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune-411008, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad-201 002, India and Central NMR Facility, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune-411008, India
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- Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune-411008, India. and Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad-201 002, India
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Iguchi H, Furutani H, Kimizuka N. Ionic Charge-Transfer Liquid Crystals Formed by Alternating Supramolecular Copolymerization of Liquid π-Donors and TCNQ. Front Chem 2021; 9:657246. [PMID: 33855013 PMCID: PMC8039295 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2021.657246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2021] [Accepted: 03/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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A new family of liquid π-donors, lipophilic dihydrophenazine (DHP) derivatives, show remarkably high π-electron-donor property which exhibit supramolecular alternating copolymerization with 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ), giving ionic charge-transfer (ICT) complexes. The ICT complexes form distinct columnar liquid crystalline (LC) mesophases with well-defined alternating molecular alignment as demonstrated by UV-Vis-NIR spectra, IR spectra, and X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns. These liquid crystalline ICT complexes display unique phase transitions in response to mechanical stress: the columnar ICT phase is converted to macroscopically oriented smectic-like mesophases upon applying shear force. Although there exist reports on the formation of ICT in the crystalline state, this study provides the first rational identification of ICT mesophases based on the spectroscopic and structural data. The liquid crystalline ICT phases are generated by strong electronic interactions between the liquid π-donors and solid acceptors. It clearly shows the significance of simultaneous fulfillment of strong π-donating ability and ordered self-assembly of the stable ICT pairs. The flexible, stimuli-responsive structural transformation of the ICT complexes offer a new perspective for designing processable CT systems with controlled hierarchical self-assembly and electronic structures.
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- Hiroaki Iguchi
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.,Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.,Center for Molecular Systems (CMS), Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Sato Y, Mutoh Y, Morishita S, Tsurumachi N, Isoda K. Stimulus-Responsive Supercooled π-Conjugated Liquid and Its Application in Rewritable Media. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:3014-3018. [PMID: 33733791 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Herein, we report a stimulus-responsive supercooled π-conjugated liquid and the possibility of its application in rewritable media. Supercooled liquid 1 showed a dramatic change in its photoluminescent color upon the transformation from liquid 1l (yellow emission) to solid 1s (green emission). These phenomena were revealed by fluorescence spectra as well as lifetime decay profiles.
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- Yuika Sato
- Division in Advanced Materials Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Kagawa University, 2217-20 Hayashi-cho, Takamatsu, Kagawa 761-0396, Japan
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- Center for Sustainable Resource Science, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Division in Advanced Materials Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Kagawa University, 2217-20 Hayashi-cho, Takamatsu, Kagawa 761-0396, Japan
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- Program in Advanced Materials Science, Faculty of Engineering and Design, Kagawa University, 2217-20 Hayashi-cho, Takamatsu, Kagawa 761-0396, Japan
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- Program in Advanced Materials Science, Faculty of Engineering and Design, Kagawa University, 2217-20 Hayashi-cho, Takamatsu, Kagawa 761-0396, Japan
- Division in Advanced Materials Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Kagawa University, 2217-20 Hayashi-cho, Takamatsu, Kagawa 761-0396, Japan
- Health Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 2217-14 Hayashi-cho, Takamatsu, Kagawa 761-0395, Japan
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Isoda K, Orita Y. Stimuli-responsive Behaviors for Room-temperature Fluorescent Liquid Materials based on N-Heteroacenes and their Mixtures in Response to HCl Vapor and their Facile Synthesis. ANAL SCI 2021; 37:469-477. [PMID: 33162419 DOI: 10.2116/analsci.20scp05] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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In this paper, we report on stimuli-responsive behaviors for room temperature fluorescent liquid materials based on N-heteroacene frameworks in response to HCl vapor. These liquid materials as well as their mixtures prepared by varying the combination can provide various emission colors and stimuli-responsive properties in liquid states. Also, we achieved an improvement in total synthetic yield (>40%) by redesigning the molecular structures of liquid materials as compared to previous liquid materials (<10%).
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- Kyosuke Isoda
- Faculty of Engineering and Design, Kagawa University.,Health Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
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- Faculty of Engineering and Design, Kagawa University
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Bai X, Sun Y, Jiang Y, Zhao G, Jiang J, Yuan C, Liu M. Circularly Polarized Luminescence from Solvent-Free Chiral Organic π-Liquids. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:3745-3751. [PMID: 33170551 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202013550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2020] [Revised: 11/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The solvent-free organic π-liquids have been attracting increasing attentions owing to the inherent optoelectronic properties accompanied by the advantages of non-volatility and high processability. Herein, we reported a series of naphthalene derivatives substituted with chiral branched alkyl chains, which are present as liquids (Nap1-3) or solid (Nap4) at room temperature, depending on the substitution positions. Circular dichroism (CD) and circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) were only observed for enantiomeric Nap2 (2,3-substituted) liquid. It is suggested that the chiral aggregation in the π-liquid leads to the CD signal and the chiral excimer resulting in the CPL performance. When achiral anthracene or pyrene was dissolved in Nap2, the π-liquid could serve as chirality and energy transfer media in which both CD and CPL emerged from the achiral anthracene. A CPL dissymmetry factor (|glum |) of anthracene reached to 5.2×10-2 when dissolved in chiral Nap2 liquid, which is nearly two orders of magnitude higher than that of the pure Nap2 π-liquid.
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- Xue Bai
- Key laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, China.,Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300354, China
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- Key laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Key laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300354, China
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- Key laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, China
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- National Laboratory for Molecular Science (BNLMS), CAS Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Key laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, China.,National Laboratory for Molecular Science (BNLMS), CAS Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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Akiyama Y, Mutoh Y, Isoda K. Asymmetric N-heteroacene liquid showing site-selective acid sensing. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2020.113036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Yoshino K, Sakai H, Shoji Y, Kajitani T, Anetai H, Akutagawa T, Fukushima T, Tkachenko NV, Hasobe T. Room-Temperature Pentacene Fluids: Oligoethylene Glycol Substituent-Controlled Morphologies and Singlet Fission. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:11910-11918. [PMID: 33336576 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c09754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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We report the first synthesis of solvent-free pentacene fluids at room temperature together with observation of singlet fission (SF). Three pentacenes with different number of ethylene glycol (EG) side chains (n) were employed (denoted as (EG)n-Pc-(EG)n: n = 2, 3, and 4). The morphologies of these pentacenes largely depend on the lengths of EG chains (n). (EG)3-Pc-(EG)3 and (EG)4-Pc-(EG)4 indicate fluid compounds at room temperature, whereas (EG)2-Pc-(EG)2 is a solid compound. Microscopic clustering with short-range interactions between pentacene chromophores was confirmed in X-ray diffraction profiles of solvent-free fluids. Such a structural trend is an important origin of SF and consistent with the steady-state spectroscopic results. To one's surprise, femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy demonstrated that SF occurred in thin films prepared from solvent-free fluids of (EG)3-Pc-(EG)3 and (EG)4-Pc-(EG)4 in spite of such excessive EG chains.
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- Keisuke Yoshino
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan.,RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan.,Materials Analysis Division, Open Facility Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.,Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM), Tohoku University, Katahira 2-1-1, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
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- Chemistry and Advanced Materials Group, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Tampere University, Korkeakoulunkatu 8, Tampere FI33720, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
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Bai X, Sun Y, Jiang Y, Zhao G, Jiang J, Yuan C, Liu M. Circularly Polarized Luminescence from Solvent‐Free Chiral Organic π‐Liquids. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202013550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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- Xue Bai
- Key laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience National Center for Nanoscience and Technology Beijing 100190 China
- Department of Chemistry School of Science Tianjin University Tianjin 300354 China
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- Key laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience National Center for Nanoscience and Technology Beijing 100190 China
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- Key laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience National Center for Nanoscience and Technology Beijing 100190 China
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- Department of Chemistry School of Science Tianjin University Tianjin 300354 China
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- Key laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience National Center for Nanoscience and Technology Beijing 100190 China
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- National Laboratory for Molecular Science (BNLMS) CAS Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Science Beijing 100190 China
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- Key laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience National Center for Nanoscience and Technology Beijing 100190 China
- National Laboratory for Molecular Science (BNLMS) CAS Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Science Beijing 100190 China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 China
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Morisue M, Saito G, Sasada D, Umeyama T, Imahori H, Mitamura K, Masunaga H, Hoshino T, Sakurai S, Sasaki S. Glassy Porphyrin/C 60 Composites: Morphological Engineering of C 60 Fullerene with Liquefied Porphyrins. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2020; 36:13583-13590. [PMID: 33147035 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c02427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Morphological control of C60 fullerene using liquefied porphyrins (1 and 2) as the host matrices was explored. Slow evaporation of the solvent of the equimolar mixture of porphyrin and C60 in toluene afforded the porphyrin/C60 composite with a 3:1 molar ratio. The stoichiometric binding behaviors suggest that specific porphyrin-C60 interactions operate the formation of the porphyrin/C60 composites, as corroborated by spectroscopic and thermal properties, and glazing-incidence wide-angle X-ray diffraction. Under the bulk conditions, the conventional thermodynamic advantage of multiple binding cooperativity for molecular recognition is unlikely to explain the stoichiometric binding behaviors. Instead, we propose a size-matching effect on the porphyrin-C60 interaction in the bulk porphyrin matrices, i.e., "supramolecular solvation". The glassy nature of the porphyrin matrices was transmitted to C60 through the specific interaction, and the porphyrin/C60 composites adopted glassy states at room temperature.
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- Mitsuhiko Morisue
- Faculty of Molecular Chemistry and Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan
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- Faculty of Molecular Chemistry and Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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- Electronic Materials Research Division, Osaka Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology, 1-6-50, Morinomiya, Joto-ku, Osaka 536-8553, Japan
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- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI/SPring-8), Hyogo 679-5198, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- Faculty of Fiber Science and Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan
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- Faculty of Fiber Science and Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan
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Diels-Alder Cycloaddition to the Bay Region of Perylene and Its Derivatives as an Attractive Strategy for PAH Core Expansion: Theoretical and Practical Aspects. Molecules 2020; 25:molecules25225373. [PMID: 33213037 PMCID: PMC7698498 DOI: 10.3390/molecules25225373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2020] [Revised: 10/31/2020] [Accepted: 11/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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PAHs (polycyclic aromatics hydrocarbons), the compound group that contains perylene and its derivatives, including functionalized ones, have attracted a great deal of interest in many fields of science and modern technology. This review presents all of the research devoted to modifications of PAHs that are realized via the Diels–Alder (DA) cycloaddition of various dienophiles to the bay regions of PAHs, leading to the π-extension of the starting molecule. This type of annulative π-extension (APEX) strategy has emerged as a powerful and efficient synthetic method for the construction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and their functionalized derivatives, nanographenes, and π-extended fused heteroarenes. Then, [4 + 2] cycloadditions of ethylenic dienophiles, -N=N-, i.e., diazo-dienophiles and acetylenic dienophiles, are presented. This subject is discussed from the organic synthesis point of view but supported by theoretical calculations. The possible applications of DA cycloaddition to PAH bay regions in various science and technology areas, and the prospects for the development of this synthetic method, are also discussed.
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Iimori T, Sugawa H, Uchida N. Bright Solvent-Free Luminescent Liquid with Magnetism Composed of a Thiocyanate Complex of Ce(III). J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:8317-8322. [PMID: 32865418 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c04958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Ionic liquids composed of a thiocyanate complex of Ce(III) exhibit bright cyan photoluminescence with a quantum yield close to 40% in addition to paramagnetism. The morphology of a droplet of ionic liquid changes in response to solvent vapor as a stimulus. The emission lifetime and thermal property are characterized. The Weiss temperature is evaluated from the magnetic property measurements, which indicates that antiferromagnetic exchange interaction exists between Ce(III) ions. Insight into the characteristics of the electronic transitions in the Ce(III) complex is obtained using quantum chemical calculations. Thiocyanate complexes of Ce(III) are demonstrated as promising building blocks to produce solvent-free luminescent functional materials.
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- Toshifumi Iimori
- Graduate School of Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, 27-1 Mizumotocho, Muroran, Hokkaido 050-8585, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, 27-1 Mizumotocho, Muroran, Hokkaido 050-8585, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, 27-1 Mizumotocho, Muroran, Hokkaido 050-8585, Japan
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Kim KH, Park MJ, Kim JH. Crack-Assisted Charge Injection into Solvent-Free Liquid Organic Semiconductors via Local Electric Field Enhancement. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2020; 13:E3349. [PMID: 32731446 PMCID: PMC7435465 DOI: 10.3390/ma13153349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2020] [Revised: 07/27/2020] [Accepted: 07/27/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Non-volatile liquid organic semiconducting materials have received much attention as emerging functional materials for organic electronic and optoelectronic devices due to their remarkable advantages. However, charge injection and transport processes are significantly impeded at interfaces between electrodes and liquid organic semiconductors, resulting in overall lower performance compared to conventional solid-state electronic devices. Here we successfully demonstrate efficient charge injection into solvent-free liquid organic semiconductors via cracked metal structures with a large number of edges leading to local electric field enhancement. For this work, thin metal films on deformable polymer substrates were mechanically stretched to generate cracks on the metal surfaces in a controlled manner, and charge injection properties into a typical non-volatile liquid organic semiconducting material, (9-2-ethylhexyl)carbazole (EHCz), were investigated in low bias region (i.e., ohmic current region). It was found that the cracked structures significantly increased the current density at a fixed external bias voltage via the local electric field enhancement, which was strongly supported by field intensity calculation using COMSOL Multiphysics software. We anticipate that these results will significantly contribute to the development and further refinement of various organic electronic and optoelectronic devices based on non-volatile liquid organic semiconducting materials.
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- Kyoung-Hwan Kim
- Department of Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea; (K.-H.K.); (M.-J.P.)
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- Department of Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea; (K.-H.K.); (M.-J.P.)
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea
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- Department of Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea; (K.-H.K.); (M.-J.P.)
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea
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Sun Y, Geng H, Peng Q, Shuai Z. Computational Study on the Charge Transport and Optical Spectra of Anthracene Derivatives in Aggregates. Chemphyschem 2020; 21:952-957. [PMID: 32182404 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202000187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2020] [Revised: 03/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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A recent experiment [Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 722-727] found that a (1 : 9) blend film of two anthracene derivatives, 2-fluorenyl-2-anthracene (FlAnt) and 2-anthryl-2-anthracence (2 A), exhibit both efficient white light emission and high hole mobility, thus promising for organic light-emitting transistors (OLETs). Employing quantum chemistry at the polarizable continuum model (PCM) and the quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) levels, we investigated the excited-state structures, optical spectra, band structure and the carrier mobility for FlAnt and 2 A from solution to aggregate phases. We suggest using the ratio of intermolecular excitonic coupling J and intramolecular excited state relaxation energy E to judge the bathochromic shift in optical emission in aggregates. For FlAnt, ρ=J/E is calculated to be less than 0.17, a critical value we identified earlier, and the spectra in solution and aggregate phases present quite similar features (blue emission). However, ρ is ∼0.5 for 2 A systems, and the calculated emission in the aggregate phase exhibits a remarkable bathochromic shift. In addition, the 0-0 emission is strongly suppressed in the herringbone stacking. These observations justify the experimental findings that (i) 2 A is blue emissive in solution but yellow-green in the aggregate phase, whereas FlAnt is always blue, and (ii) the blend of them show white emission. By using the "quantum nuclear tunneling" model we proposed earlier, we found the hole mobility for FlAnt and 2 A are 0.5 and 4.2 cm2 V-1 s-1 , respectively, indicating both are good hole transport materials.
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- Yajing Sun
- Department of Chemistry, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, PR China
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- Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Organic Solids and, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, PR China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics and, Molecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, PR China
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Walsh JC, Hogan DT, Williams KLM, Brake SD, Venkataramana G, Misener TA, Wallace BJ, Johnson RP, Thompson DW, Zhao Y, Wagner BD, Bodwell GJ. Synthesis of Oligo(1,8-pyrenylene)s: A Series of Functional Molecular Liquids. Chempluschem 2020; 84:754-765. [PMID: 31944011 DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201900133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2019] [Revised: 04/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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A monomer-through-pentamer series of oligo(1,8-pyrenylene)s was synthesized using a two-step iterative synthetic strategy. The trimer, tetramer, and pentamer are mixtures of atropisomers that interconvert slowly at room temperature (as shown by variable-temperature NMR analysis). They are liquids well below room temperature, as indicated by POM, DSC and SWAXS analysis. These oligomers are highly fluorescent both in the liquid state and in dilute solution (λF,max = 444-457 nm, φF = 0.80) and an investigation of their photophysical properties demonstrated that delocalization plays a larger role in their excited states than it does in related pyrene-based oligomers.
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- Joshua C Walsh
- Chemistry Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 283 Prince Philip Drive, St. John's, NL A1B 3X7, Canada
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- Chemistry Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 283 Prince Philip Drive, St. John's, NL A1B 3X7, Canada
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- Chemistry Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 283 Prince Philip Drive, St. John's, NL A1B 3X7, Canada
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- Chemistry Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 283 Prince Philip Drive, St. John's, NL A1B 3X7, Canada
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- Chemistry Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 283 Prince Philip Drive, St. John's, NL A1B 3X7, Canada
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- Chemistry Department, University of Prince Edward Island, 550 University Ave, Charlottetown, PE C1A 4P3, Canada
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- Chemistry Department, University of Prince Edward Island, 550 University Ave, Charlottetown, PE C1A 4P3, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Materials Science Program, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
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- Chemistry Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 283 Prince Philip Drive, St. John's, NL A1B 3X7, Canada
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- Chemistry Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 283 Prince Philip Drive, St. John's, NL A1B 3X7, Canada
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- Chemistry Department, University of Prince Edward Island, 550 University Ave, Charlottetown, PE C1A 4P3, Canada
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- Chemistry Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 283 Prince Philip Drive, St. John's, NL A1B 3X7, Canada
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Mori T, Yoshigoe Y, Kuninobu Y. Control of Multicolor and White Emission by Adjusting the Equilibrium between Fluorophores, Lewis Acids, and Their Complexes in Polymers. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019; 58:14457-14461. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201903408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2019] [Revised: 08/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Toshiaki Mori
- Department of Molecular and Material Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences Kyushu University 6-1 Kasugakoen, Kasuga-shi Fukuoka 816-8580 Japan
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- Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering Kyushu University 6-1 Kasugakoen, Kasuga-shi Fukuoka 816-8580 Japan
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- Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering Kyushu University 6-1 Kasugakoen, Kasuga-shi Fukuoka 816-8580 Japan
- Department of Molecular and Material Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences Kyushu University 6-1 Kasugakoen, Kasuga-shi Fukuoka 816-8580 Japan
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Mori T, Yoshigoe Y, Kuninobu Y. Control of Multicolor and White Emission by Adjusting the Equilibrium between Fluorophores, Lewis Acids, and Their Complexes in Polymers. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201903408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Toshiaki Mori
- Department of Molecular and Material Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences Kyushu University 6-1 Kasugakoen, Kasuga-shi Fukuoka 816-8580 Japan
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- Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering Kyushu University 6-1 Kasugakoen, Kasuga-shi Fukuoka 816-8580 Japan
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- Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering Kyushu University 6-1 Kasugakoen, Kasuga-shi Fukuoka 816-8580 Japan
- Department of Molecular and Material Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences Kyushu University 6-1 Kasugakoen, Kasuga-shi Fukuoka 816-8580 Japan
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Lu F, Neal EA, Nakanishi T. Self-Assembled and Nonassembled Alkylated-Fullerene Materials. Acc Chem Res 2019; 52:1834-1843. [PMID: 31282645 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.9b00217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Fullerene (C60), a π-conjugated cage molecule consisting of 60 sp2-hybridized carbon atoms that are arranged into perfect icosahedral symmetry, is one of the most extensively studied nanocarbon materials by virtue of its characteristic spherical structure, fascinating optoelectronic properties, and widespread applications in material science. To implement practical applications, C60 is generally used as a building motif to assemble into various ordered superstructures. Unlike the controllable face-to-face π-π interactions of planar π-conjugated molecules, the π-π interactions between the three-dimensional spherical C60 units are random and directionless, which generally lead to complicated aggregated structures and unpredictable properties. The primary target of our research is to produce a robust design strategy for functional C60 materials, by which the single C60 molecules can be engineered into desirable self-organized architectures with optimized functions. To this end, we focused on alkylated fullerene (alk-C60) derivatives, a simple molecular system whose two components, alkyl chains and C60, exhibit both hydrophobicity yet different affinities to organic solvents. As a result, the alk-C60 derivatives present an unusual "hydrophobic amphiphile" system. Through systematic tuning of the substitution pattern of a series of alkyl side chains (number, length, branching, and substitution position) and external experimental conditions, the factors influencing alk-C60 self-assembly behaviors were determined. In addition, the feasibility of forming hybrid coassemblies with alk-C60 and other nanocarbon materials was demonstrated. By taking full advantage of the hydrophobic nature and active optoelectronic properties of these self- or hybrid-assemblies, various superhydrophobic materials and/or optoelectronic devices were developed. However, supported only by weak noncovalent interactions, these ordered superstructures are intrinsically fragile under various external stimuli. To improve the structural stability and achieve consistent optoelectronic performance of these novel materials, we strengthened the ordered structures via metallization and plasticization. Both approaches gave rise to robust and endurable materials with functions inherited from the pristine assemblies but at the cost of their former softness and facile processability. Thereafter, we focused on amorphous materials in view of their consistent and predictable optoelectronic properties that are independent of their geometry and physical environment. Unexpectedly, the amorphous materials obtained were liquids at room temperature, whose excellent deformability might enable applications in flexible/wearable optoelectronic devices. However, the lack of sufficient molecular order impaired their optoelectronic performance. To address this, we devised a straightforward strategy toward the directed ordered self-assembly of the alk-C60 liquids by adding molecular cofactors (n-alkanes or C60) into the liquids. Using this strategy, the balance between intermolecular order and material softness can be readily adjusted to meet different application requirements. Through iterative refinements to our novel alk-C60 system, we have demonstrated its power in generating numerous self-assembled, hybrid-assembled, and nonassembled materials toward versatile applications. We believe such a comprehensive description of these alk-C60-based functional materials provides deep insights into these still-evolving materials, which will underpin more advanced applications in near future.
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- Fengniu Lu
- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
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Sagara Y, Karman M, Seki A, Pannipara M, Tamaoki N, Weder C. Rotaxane-Based Mechanophores Enable Polymers with Mechanically Switchable White Photoluminescence. ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE 2019; 5:874-881. [PMID: 31139723 PMCID: PMC6535770 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.9b00173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2019] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Three mechanoresponsive polyurethane elastomers whose blue, green, and orange photoluminescence can be reversibly turned on by mechanical force were prepared and combined to create a blend that exhibits deformation-induced white photoluminescence. The three polyurethanes contain rotaxane-based supramolecular mechanoluminophores based on π-extended pyrene, anthracene, or 4-(dicyanomethylene)-2-methyl-6-(4-dimethylaminostyryl)-4H-pyran (DCM) luminophores, respectively, and 1,4,5,8-naphthalenetetracarboxylic diimide as an electronically matched quencher. Each polymer shows instantly reversible, strain-dependent switching of its photoluminescence intensity when stretched and relaxed, as deformation leads to a spatial separation of the luminophore and quencher. The present study shows that the photoluminescence color can easily be tailored by variation of the luminophore and also by combining several mechanophores in one material and demonstrates that adaptability is a key advantage of supramolecular approaches to create mechanoresponsive polymers.
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- Yoshimitsu Sagara
- Research
Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido
University, N20, W10, Kita-Ku, Sapporo 001-0020, Japan
- JST-PRESTO, Honcho 4-1-8, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Adolphe
Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Chemin des Verdiers 4, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Research
Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido
University, N20, W10, Kita-Ku, Sapporo 001-0020, Japan
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- Research
Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido
University, N20, W10, Kita-Ku, Sapporo 001-0020, Japan
- Department
of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, King Khalid
University, Guraiger, Abha 61413, Saudi Arabia
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- Research
Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido
University, N20, W10, Kita-Ku, Sapporo 001-0020, Japan
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- Adolphe
Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Chemin des Verdiers 4, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
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Silicon Quantum Dot Light Emitting Diode at 620 nm. MICROMACHINES 2019; 10:mi10050318. [PMID: 31083550 PMCID: PMC6562877 DOI: 10.3390/mi10050318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2019] [Revised: 05/08/2019] [Accepted: 05/10/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Here we report a quantum dot light emitting diode (QLED), in which a layer of colloidal silicon quantum dots (SiQDs) works as the optically active component, exhibiting a strong electroluminescence (EL) spectrum peaking at 620 nm. We could not see any fluctuation of the EL spectral peak, even in air, when the operation voltage varied in the range from 4 to 5 V because of the possible advantage of the inverted device structure. The pale-orange EL spectrum was as narrow as 95 nm. Interestingly, the EL spectrum was narrower than the corresponding photoluminescence (PL) spectrum. The EL emission was strong enough to be seen by the naked eye. The currently obtained brightness (∼4200 cd/m2), the 0.033% external quantum efficiency (EQE), and a turn-on voltage as low as 2.8 V show a sufficiently high performance when compared to other orange-light-emitting Si-QLEDs in the literature. We also observed a parasitic emission from the neighboring compositional layer (i.e., the zinc oxide layer), and its intensity increased with the driving voltage of the device.
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Zhang T, Wang C, Ma X. Metal-Free Room-Temperature Phosphorescent Systems for Pure White-Light Emission and Latent Fingerprint Visualization. Ind Eng Chem Res 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.9b00910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Ting Zhang
- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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Enozawa H, Ukai S, Ito H, Murata T, Morita Y. Colored Ionic Liquid Based on Stable Polycyclic Anion Salt Showing Halochromism with HCl Vapor. Org Lett 2019; 21:2161-2165. [PMID: 30896176 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b00468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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A sodium salt of a polycyclic trioxotriangulene (TOT) anion with six triethylene glycol chains exhibiting the formation of a colored ionic liquid at room temperature was synthesized. The ionic liquid is air- and water-stable, reflecting thermodynamic stabilization of a charge-delocalized TOT anion. Upon protonation of the TOT anion, the salt shows halochromic behaviors in solution and even in the neat liquid state with HCl vapor. The ionic liquid shows no morphological change with the chromism, presumably as a result of poor intermolecular interactions between π skeletons.
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- Hideo Enozawa
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering , Aichi Institute of Technology , Toyota , Aichi 470-0392 , Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering , Aichi Institute of Technology , Toyota , Aichi 470-0392 , Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering , Aichi Institute of Technology , Toyota , Aichi 470-0392 , Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering , Aichi Institute of Technology , Toyota , Aichi 470-0392 , Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering , Aichi Institute of Technology , Toyota , Aichi 470-0392 , Japan
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Liu D, Ding Q, Fu Y, Song Z, Peng Y. Rh-Catalyzed C–H Amidation of 2-Arylbenzo[d]thiazoles: An Approach to Single Organic Molecule White Light Emitters in the Solid State. Org Lett 2019; 21:2523-2527. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b00115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Deming Liu
- Key Laboratory of Functional Small Organic Molecules, Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Small Organic Molecules, Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Small Organic Molecules, Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Small Organic Molecules, Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Small Organic Molecules, Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China
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Kushwaha K, Yu L, Stranius K, Singh SK, Hultmark S, Iqbal MN, Eriksson L, Johnston E, Erhart P, Müller C, Börjesson K. A Record Chromophore Density in High-Entropy Liquids of Two Low-Melting Perylenes: A New Strategy for Liquid Chromophores. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2019; 6:1801650. [PMID: 30828534 PMCID: PMC6382313 DOI: 10.1002/advs.201801650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2018] [Revised: 11/22/2018] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Liquid chromophores constitute a rare but intriguing class of molecules that are in high demand for the design of luminescent inks, liquid semiconductors, and solar energy storage materials. The most common way to achieve liquid chromophores involves the introduction of long alkyl chains, which, however, significantly reduces the chromophore density. Here, strategy is presented that allows for the preparation of liquid chromophores with a minimal increase in molecular weight, using the important class of perylenes as an example. Two synergistic effects are harnessed: (1) the judicious positioning of short alkyl substituents, and (2) equimolar mixing, which in unison results in a liquid material. A series of 1-alkyl perylene derivatives is synthesized and it is found that short ethyl or butyl chains reduce the melting temperature from 278 °C to as little as 70 °C. Then, two low-melting derivatives are mixed, which results in materials that do not crystallize due to the increased configurational entropy of the system. As a result, liquid chromophores with the lowest reported molecular weight increase compared to the neat chromophore are obtained. The mixing strategy is readily applicable to other π-conjugated systems and, hence, promises to yield a wide range of low molecular weight liquid chromophores.
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- Khushbu Kushwaha
- Department of Chemistry and Molecular BiologyUniversity of GothenburgKemigården 441296GothenburgSweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringChalmers University of Technology41296GothenburgSweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Molecular BiologyUniversity of GothenburgKemigården 441296GothenburgSweden
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- Department of PhysicsMaterials and Surface Theory DivisionChalmers University of Technology41296GothenburgSweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringChalmers University of Technology41296GothenburgSweden
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- Department of Materials and Environmental ChemistryStockholm UniversityStockholmSweden
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- Department of Materials and Environmental ChemistryStockholm UniversityStockholmSweden
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- Sigrid Therapeutics ABSankt Göransgatan 159112 17StockholmSweden
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- Department of PhysicsMaterials and Surface Theory DivisionChalmers University of Technology41296GothenburgSweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringChalmers University of Technology41296GothenburgSweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Molecular BiologyUniversity of GothenburgKemigården 441296GothenburgSweden
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Goudappagouda, Manthanath A, Wakchaure VC, Ranjeesh KC, Das T, Vanka K, Nakanishi T, Babu SS. Paintable Room-Temperature Phosphorescent Liquid Formulations of Alkylated Bromonaphthalimide. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019; 58:2284-2288. [PMID: 30548525 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201811834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2018] [Revised: 12/11/2018] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Organic phosphors have been widely explored with an understanding that crystalline molecular ordering is a requisite for enhanced intersystem crossing. In this context, we explored the room-temperature phosphorescence features of a solvent-free organic liquid phosphor in air. While alkyl chain substitution varied the physical states of the bromonaphthalimides, the phosphorescence remained unaltered for the solvent-free liquid in air. As the first report, a solvent-free liquid of a long swallow-tailed bromonaphthalimide exhibits room-temperature phosphorescence in air. Doping of the phosphor with carbonyl guests resulted in enhanced phosphorescence, and hence a large-area paintable phosphorescent liquid composite with improved lifetime and quantum yield was developed.
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- Goudappagouda
- Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune-, 411008, India.,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), New Delhi, India
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- Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune-, 411008, India.,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), New Delhi, India
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- Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune-, 411008, India.,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), New Delhi, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), New Delhi, India.,Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune-, 411008, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), New Delhi, India.,Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune-, 411008, India
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- Frontier Molecules Group, International Centre for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan
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- Organic Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune-, 411008, India.,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), New Delhi, India
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Synthesis of Furan-Substituted N-Heteroacene-Based Liquid Material and Its Acid-Recognizing Behavior. CRYSTALS 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/cryst9010051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In this study, we synthesized a novel N-heteroacene-based liquid material 6,7-bis(3,7,11-trimethyl-1-dodecyloxy)-2,3-difurylquinoxaline (RPNL 1), containing two furan rings. We revealed that RPNL 1 adopted a disordered liquid at 25 ∘ C, determined by polarized optical microscopic observation, differential scanning calorimetry, and X-ray diffraction measurements. The fluorescent spectrum measurement revealed that RPNL 1 showed a blue emission at 25 ∘ C. Dissolving benzene sulfonic acid (BSA) in RPNL 1 brought about dramatic changes in its physical properties, such as emission colors, as well as sample states. Upon recognizing BSA, photoluminescent color was changed into orange, as well as phase transition occurred from liquid to a liquid-crystalline phase. RPNL 1 can function as an acid-recognizing material, accompanied with the color changes in emission.
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Sinha S, Chowdhury B, Ghorai UK, Ghosh P. Multitasking behaviour of a small organic compound: solid state bright white-light emission, mechanochromism and ratiometric sensing of Al(iii) and pyrophosphate. Chem Commun (Camb) 2019; 55:5127-5130. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cc10258a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Solid state bright white-light emission, mechanochromism and ratiometric fluorescence sensing of Al3+ and pyrophosphate by a single organic molecule are demonstrated.
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- Sanghamitra Sinha
- School of Chemical Sciences
- Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
- Kolkata
- India
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- School of Chemical Sciences
- Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
- Kolkata
- India
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- Department of Industrial Chemistry and Applied Chemistry
- Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira & Swami Vivekananda Research Center
- Belur Math
- India
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- School of Chemical Sciences
- Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
- Kolkata
- India
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Zhang G, Zhu H, Chen M, Pietraszkiewicz M, Pietraszkiewicz O, Li H, Hao J. Aggregation-Induced Emission of EuIII
Complexes Balanced with Bulky and Amphiphilic Imidazolium Cations in Ethanol/Water Binary Mixtures. Chemistry 2018; 24:15912-15920. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201803408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Geping Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry and; Key Laboratory of Special Aggregated Materials, Ministry of Education; Shandong University; Jinan 250100 Shandong Province P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry and; Key Laboratory of Special Aggregated Materials, Ministry of Education; Shandong University; Jinan 250100 Shandong Province P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry and; Key Laboratory of Special Aggregated Materials, Ministry of Education; Shandong University; Jinan 250100 Shandong Province P. R. China
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- Department IX, Institute of Physical Chemistry; Polish Academy of Sciences; Warsaw 01-224 Poland
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- Department IX, Institute of Physical Chemistry; Polish Academy of Sciences; Warsaw 01-224 Poland
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry and; Key Laboratory of Special Aggregated Materials, Ministry of Education; Shandong University; Jinan 250100 Shandong Province P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication; Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Lanzhou 730000 Gansu Province P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry and; Key Laboratory of Special Aggregated Materials, Ministry of Education; Shandong University; Jinan 250100 Shandong Province P. R. China
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Lu F, Jang K, Osica I, Hagiwara K, Yoshizawa M, Ishii M, Chino Y, Ohta K, Ludwichowska K, Kurzydłowski KJ, Ishihara S, Nakanishi T. Supercooling of functional alkyl-π molecular liquids. Chem Sci 2018; 9:6774-6778. [PMID: 30294417 PMCID: PMC6166271 DOI: 10.1039/c8sc02723d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2018] [Accepted: 07/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Metastable states of soft matters are extensively used in designing stimuli-responsive materials. However, the non-steady properties may obstruct consistent performance. Here we report an approach to eradicate the indistinguishable metastable supercooled state of functional molecular liquids (FMLs), which remains as a liquid for weeks or months before crystallizing, via rational molecular design. The phases (solid, kinetically stable liquid, and supercooled liquid) of a model FML, branched alkyl chain-substituted 9,10-diphenylanthracene (DPA), are found to be governed by subtle alterations of the molecular structure (alkyl-DPA ratio and bulkiness of the DPA unit). We thus outline molecular design principles to avoid supercooled FML formation. Moreover, we demonstrate a practical technique to rapidly discriminate supercooled FMLs (within 5 h) by accelerating their crystallization in differential scanning calorimetry heating via pre-annealing or relatively slow scanning.
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- Fengniu Lu
- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA) , National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) , 1-1 Namiki , Tsukuba 305-0044 , Japan .
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA) , National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) , 1-1 Namiki , Tsukuba 305-0044 , Japan .
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- Materials Design Division , Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering , Warsaw University of Technology , Woloska 141 , 02-507 Warsaw , Poland
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science , Institute of Innovative Research , Tokyo Institute of Technology , 4259 Nagatsuta , Midori-ku , Yokohama 226-8503 , Japan
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science , Institute of Innovative Research , Tokyo Institute of Technology , 4259 Nagatsuta , Midori-ku , Yokohama 226-8503 , Japan
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- Materials Data Platform Center , Research and Services Division of Materials Data and Integrated System (MaDIS) , NIMS , 1-2-1 Sengen , Tsukuba 305-0047 , Japan
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- Smart Material Science and Technology , Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Technology , Shinshu University , 1-15-1 Tokida , Ueda 386-8567 , Japan
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- Smart Material Science and Technology , Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Technology , Shinshu University , 1-15-1 Tokida , Ueda 386-8567 , Japan
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- Materials Design Division , Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering , Warsaw University of Technology , Woloska 141 , 02-507 Warsaw , Poland
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- Materials Design Division , Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering , Warsaw University of Technology , Woloska 141 , 02-507 Warsaw , Poland
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA) , National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) , 1-1 Namiki , Tsukuba 305-0044 , Japan .
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA) , National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) , 1-1 Namiki , Tsukuba 305-0044 , Japan .
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Jin YJ, Choi YG, Park H, Kwak G. Near-room-temperature phase-change fluorescent molecular rotor and its hybrids. J Mol Liq 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2018.05.128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Okamoto K, Lu F, Nakanishi T. Posttreatment Technique for SN2 Alkylation of Aromatics with Alkyl Halides: Aiming toward Large-Scale Synthesis of Building Blocks for Soft π-Molecular Materials. BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 2018. [DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.20180075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Ken Okamoto
- Frontier Molecules Group, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
- Department of Engineering for Future Innovation, Division of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology, Ichinoseki College, Takanashi, Hagisho, Ichinoseki, Iwate 021-8511, Japan
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- Frontier Molecules Group, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
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- Frontier Molecules Group, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
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Sato Y, Mutoh Y, Matsukuma D, Nakagawa M, Kawai T, Isoda K. Tuning the Electronic Properties and Acid-Response Behavior of N-Heteroacene-Based π-Conjugated Liquids by Changing the Number of π-Conjugated Substituents. Chem Asian J 2018; 13:2619-2625. [DOI: 10.1002/asia.201800631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2018] [Revised: 06/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Yuika Sato
- Department of Advanced Materials Science; Faculty of Engineering; Kagawa University; 2217-20 Hayashi-cho Takamatsu Kagawa 761-0396 Japan
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- Department of Chemistry; Faculty of Science; Tokyo University of Science; 1-3 Kagurazaka Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 162-8601 Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science Division I; Tokyo University of Science; 1-3 Kagurazaka Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 162-8601 Japan
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- Department of Industrial Chemistry; Tokyo University of Science; 1-3 Kagurazaka Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 162-8601 Japan
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- Department of Industrial Chemistry; Tokyo University of Science; 1-3 Kagurazaka Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 162-8601 Japan
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- Department of Advanced Materials Science; Faculty of Engineering; Kagawa University; 2217-20 Hayashi-cho Takamatsu Kagawa 761-0396 Japan
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Li D, Hu W, Wang J, Zhang Q, Cao XM, Ma X, Tian H. White-light emission from a single organic compound with unique self-folded conformation and multistimuli responsiveness. Chem Sci 2018; 9:5709-5715. [PMID: 30079179 PMCID: PMC6050594 DOI: 10.1039/c8sc01915k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2018] [Accepted: 05/21/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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White-light emitting organic materials attract broad attention which are ascribed to their potential for applications in lighting devices and display media. Most reported organic white-light emitters rely on the combination of several components that emit different colors of light (red/green/blue or orange/blue), which may cause problems to stability, reproducibility and device fabrication. By contrast, white-light emission from single-molecule systems offers opportunities to overcome these disadvantages, meanwhile engendering white-light with high quality. Nevertheless, limited cases of white-light emission at the molecular scale reported principally concentrate on organic solvents. Herein, we designed and synthesized new bi-functional organic molecules with a symmetric donor-acceptor-donor (D-A-D) type structure with the aim to construct a single-molecule white-light emitting system in aqueous solution. Further experiments and calculations demonstrate the possibility of stacking between the pyridinium-naphthalene (PN) core and coumarin groups in the designed molecules, ascribed to hydrophobic effects, π-π stacking and donor-acceptor interactions, which could dramatically enhance the intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) efficiency along with remarkable charge transfer (CT) emission. Based on this, multicolor photoluminescence including white-light can be finely tuned in various modes including excitation wavelength, solvent polarity, temperature, and host-guest interactions. A white-light emitting (WLE) hydrogel was also facilely prepared through the dispersion of one of the compounds in a commercial agarose gelator. This innovative study helps enrich the strategies to construct single-molecule organic white-light emitting materials in aqueous medium using the self-folding behavior.
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- Dengfeng Li
- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials , Institute of Fine Chemicals , Center for Computational Chemistry , Research Institute of Industrial Catalysis , School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , East China University of Science and Technology , Shanghai 200237 , P. R. China .
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials , Institute of Fine Chemicals , Center for Computational Chemistry , Research Institute of Industrial Catalysis , School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , East China University of Science and Technology , Shanghai 200237 , P. R. China .
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials , Institute of Fine Chemicals , Center for Computational Chemistry , Research Institute of Industrial Catalysis , School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , East China University of Science and Technology , Shanghai 200237 , P. R. China .
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials , Institute of Fine Chemicals , Center for Computational Chemistry , Research Institute of Industrial Catalysis , School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , East China University of Science and Technology , Shanghai 200237 , P. R. China .
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials , Institute of Fine Chemicals , Center for Computational Chemistry , Research Institute of Industrial Catalysis , School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , East China University of Science and Technology , Shanghai 200237 , P. R. China .
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials , Institute of Fine Chemicals , Center for Computational Chemistry , Research Institute of Industrial Catalysis , School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , East China University of Science and Technology , Shanghai 200237 , P. R. China .
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials , Institute of Fine Chemicals , Center for Computational Chemistry , Research Institute of Industrial Catalysis , School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , East China University of Science and Technology , Shanghai 200237 , P. R. China .
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Machida T, Taniguchi R, Oura T, Sada K, Kokado K. Liquefaction-induced emission enhancement of tetraphenylethene derivatives. Chem Commun (Camb) 2018; 53:2378-2381. [PMID: 28174768 DOI: 10.1039/c6cc09939d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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A typical AIE dye, TPE, was liquefied by attaching long and branched alkyl chains. The obtained liquid dye showed intense emission compared to the solid dye or TPE. The linkage between TPE and the alkyl chain led to significant difference in their photoluminescent and thermal properties.
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- Takashi Machida
- Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Kita10 Nishi8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Kita10 Nishi8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Kita10 Nishi8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Kita10 Nishi8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan. and Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Kita10 Nishi8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan
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- Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Kita10 Nishi8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan. and Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Kita10 Nishi8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan
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Zielinska A, Takai A, Sakurai H, Saeki A, Leonowicz M, Nakanishi T. A Spin-Active, Electrochromic, Solvent-Free Molecular Liquid Based on Double-Decker Lutetium Phthalocyanine Bearing Long Branched Alkyl Chains. Chem Asian J 2018; 13:770-774. [DOI: 10.1002/asia.201800175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Agnieszka Zielinska
- Frontier Molecules Group, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA); National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS); 1-1 Namiki Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-0044 Japan
- Warsaw University of Technology; ul. Wołoska 141 Warsaw 02-507 Poland
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- Frontier Molecules Group, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA); National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS); 1-1 Namiki Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-0044 Japan
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- Frontier Molecules Group, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA); National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS); 1-1 Namiki Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-0044 Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry; Graduate School of Engineering; Osaka University; 2-1 Yamadaoka Suita Osaka 565-0871 Japan
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- Warsaw University of Technology; ul. Wołoska 141 Warsaw 02-507 Poland
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- Frontier Molecules Group, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA); National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS); 1-1 Namiki Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-0044 Japan
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