Precise peripheral design enables propeller-like squaraine dye with highly sensitive and wide-range piezochromism.

ABSTRACT: Piezochromic fluorescent (PCF) materials that feature high sensitivity and wide-range switching are attractive in intelligent optoelectronic applications but their fabrication remains a significant challenge. Here we present a propeller-like squaraine dye SQ-NMe₂ decorated with four peripheral dimethylamines acting as electron donors and spatial obstacles. This precise peripheral design is expected to loosen the molecular packing pattern and facilitate more substantial intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) switching caused by conformational planarization under mechanical stimuli. As such, the pristine SQ-NMe₂ microcrystal exhibits significant fluorescence changes from yellow (λ_em = 554 nm) to orange (λ_em = 590 nm) upon slight mechani

SUBMITTER: Guo W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10266472 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature