An Unexpected Dual-Emissive Luminogen: Tunable Aggregation-Induced Emission with Cyan-White-Red Colors, Stable Inherent Chirality, and Enhanced Chiroptical Property

Herein we report a novel chiral bismacrocycle with unexpected dual emission and tunable aggregation-induced emission colors. A facile four-step synthesis strategy is developed to construct this rigid bismacrocycle, (1,4)[8]cycloparaphenylenophane (SCPP[8]), which possesses a 1,2,4,5-tetraphenylbenzene core locked by two intersecting polyphenylene-based macrocycles. The luminescent behavior of SCPP[8] shows the unique characteristics of both aggregation-caused quenching effect and aggrega-tion-induced emission (AIE) effect, inducing remarkable redshift emission including near white-light emission. SCPP[8] is configurationally stable and possesses a novel shape-persistent bismacrocycle scaffold with a high strain energy (up to 127.83 kcal/mol). In addition, SCPP[8] displays enhanced circularly polarized luminescence properties due to AIE effect.

Biomimetic non-classical crystallization induced hierarchically structured efficient circularly polarized phosphors

Hierarchically structured chiral luminescent materials hold promise for achieving efficient circularly polarized luminescence. However, a feasible chemical route to fabricate hierarchically structured chiral luminescent polycrystals is still elusive because of their complex structures and complicated formation process. We here report a biomimetic non-classical crystallization (BNCC) strategy for preparing efficient hierarchically structured chiral luminescent polycrystals using well-designed highly luminescent homochiral copper(I)-iodide hybrid clusters as basic units for biomimetic crystallization. By monitoring the crystallization process, we unravel the BNCC mechanism, which involves crystal nucleation, nanoparticles aggregation, oriented attachment, and mesoscopic transformation processes. We finally obtain the circularly polarized phosphors with both high luminescent efficiency (32%) and high luminescent dissymmetry factor (1.5 × 10-2), achieving the first demonstration of a circularly polarized phosphor converted light emitting diode with a polarization degree of 1.84% at room temperature. Our designed BNCC strategy provides a simple, reliable and large-scale synthetic route for preparing bright circularly polarized phosphors.

Chiral Tetracoordinate Organoboranes Based on Double B←N Bridged Bipyridine with Circularly Polarized Luminescence

Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) has received great attention because the CPL materials are very promising in chiroptical applications. In this article, we report a new kind of chiral tetracoordinate organoboranes...

Ionic Liquid Crystalline Based on Amino Acid and Gemini Surfactant: Tunable Phase Structure, Circular Polarized Luminescence and Emission Color

Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL)-active ionic liquid crystalline (ILC) featuring excitation wavelength-dependent (Ex-De) photoluminescence have latent application prospects in display devices. In addition, materials with tunable CPL responses are quite attractive...

Molecular Design to Enhance Binaphthyl-Based Chiroptics Using Organoboron Chemistry in Isomeric Chiral Scaffolds

Access to high-performance circularly polarized luminescence is highly desired in materials science but it hitherto remains a considerable challenge. We herein present a conceptually universal design strategy to improve the...

Circularly Polarized Luminescent Porous Crystalline Nanomaterials

Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) active materials have attracted exclusive attention because of their wide potential applications in low-power-consumption displays, encrypted information storage, chiroptical sensors, and so on. However, there is...