Tetraphenylethenyl-Modified 1,8-Naphthalimide Dye with Efficient Aggregation-Enhanced Emisssion, Solvatochromism and Intramolecular Charge Transfer Characteristics

1,8-naphthalimide (NI) dyes are one class of important organic luminophores with good photo-stability, high fluorescent quantum yields and broad emission color-tunability, which are widely used in biological and chemical fields. However, they exhibit bad ACQ property, which heavily limits their application in real word. Contrary to ACQ, tetraphenylethene (TPE) is an AIE luminogen. To eliminate the ACQ effect of NI, TPE was used as core and NI chromophores was used as peripheries to obtain a new dye TPEDNI. TPEDNI dye demonstrates typical aggregation-enhanced emission (AEE) characteristic with high fluorescence Φ>F, solid up to 100% in the film state, which is 24 times of that for its THF solution. Besides, TPEDNI exhibits marked solvatochromism, and the emission peak red-shifts from 505 nm in hexane to 610 nm in acetonitrile. TPENI also displays evident intramolecular charge transfer property in THF/water mixtures

Synthesis and optical properties of conjugated maleimide molecules containing amino with aggregation-induced emission enhance (AIEE)

Maleimides-based luminophores bearing conjugated units is attracting intensive scientific interest as organic luminophores, owing to its excellent light emission properties and wide applications. In this article, after we synthesized the...

First demonstration of the use of stable open shell derivatives as organic luminophores for transparent Luminescent Solar Concentrators

Luminescent Solar Concentrators (LSCs) are rapidly emerging as key enabling technology towards the realization of zero energy buildings. The development of new efficient and sustainable luminophores is crucial for further...

Holmium(iii) molecular nanomagnets for optical thermometry exploring the luminescence re-absorption effect

HoIII complexes bearing organic luminophores and inorganic metalloligands are an effective tool for achieving the unique conjunction of single-molecule magnetism and thermometric luminescence re-absorption phenomenon.

Development of Circularly Polarized Luminescence (CPL) Peptides Containing Pyrenylalanines and 2-Aminoisobutyric Acid

Chiral organic and organometallic luminophores that possess circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) properties in the near-ultraviolet to near-infrared region have several useful applications. However, the CPL properties are subject to inherent factors of the compounds; to date, studies on the CPL properties influenced by amino acids and peptides are scarce. Consequently, we developed peptide-pyrene organic luminophores exhibiting various CPL properties. It is conceivable that the peptide-pyrene organic luminophores can be obtained as aggregates when dissolved in a solution. It is also possible that the formation of aggregates makes it difficult to accurately examine the CPL of the peptide in the solution. This study showed that the introduction of sterically hindered 2-aminoisobutyric acid (Aib) units into the peptide backbone inhibits aggregate formation. The resulting luminophores exhibit CPL properties owing to the presence of pyrene units. The results of this study can form a basis for the design of future materials that use peptide-pyrene organic luminophores.

Generation of Circularly Polarized Luminescence by Symmetry Breaking

Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) has attracted significant attention in the fields of chiral photonic science and optoelectronic materials science. In a CPL-emitting system, a chiral luminophore derived from chiral molecules is usually essential. In this review, three non-classical CPL (NC-CPL) systems that do not use enantiomerically pure molecules are reported: (i) supramolecular organic luminophores composed of achiral organic molecules that can emit CPL without the use of any chiral auxiliaries, (ii) achiral or racemic luminophores that can emit magnetic CPL (MCPL) by applying an external magnetic field of 1.6 T, and (iii) circular dichroism-silent organic luminophores that can emit CPL in the photoexcited state as a cryptochiral CPL system.