Thermally Activated and Aggregation-Regulated Excitonic Coupling Enable Emissive High-Lying Triplet Excitons.

ABSTRACT: Room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) originating from higher-lying triplet excitons remains a rather rarely documented occurrence for purely organic molecular systems. Here, we report two naphthalene-based RTP luminophores whose phosphorescence emission is enabled by radiative decay of high-lying triplet excitons. In contrast, upon cooling the dominant phosphorescence originates from the lowest-lying triplet excited state, which is manifested by a red-shifted emission. Photophysical and theoretical studies reveal that the unusual RTP results from thermally activated excitonic coupling between different conformations of the compounds. Aggregation-regulated excitonic coupling is observed when increasing the doping concentration of the emitters in poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA). Further, t

SUBMITTER: Wang T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9545188 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature