Issue 26, 2024

High-efficiency color-tunable ultralong room-temperature phosphorescence from organic–inorganic metal halides via synergistic inter/intramolecular interactions

Abstract

Materials exhibiting highly efficient, ultralong and multicolor-tunable room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) are of practical importance for emerging applications. However, these are still very scarce and remain a formidable challenge. Herein, using precise structure design, several novel organic–inorganic metal-halide hybrids with efficient and ultralong RTP have been developed based on an identical organic cation (A). The original organic salt (ACl) exhibits red RTP properties with low phosphorescence efficiency. However, after embedding metals into the organic salt, the changed crystal structure endows the resultant metal–halide hybrids with excellent RTP properties. In particular, A2ZnCl4·H2O exhibits the highest RTP efficiency of up to 56.56% with a long lifetime of up to 159 ms. It is found that multiple inter/intramolecular interactions and the strong heavy-atom effect of the rigid metal–halide hybrids can suppress molecular motion and promote the ISC process, resulting in highly stable and localized triplet excitons followed by highly efficient RTP. More crucially, multicolor-tunable fluorescence and RTP achieved by tuning the metal and halogen endow these materials with wide application prospects in the fields of multilevel information encryption and dynamic optical data storage. The findings promote the development of phosphorescent metal-halide hybrids for potential high-tech applications.

Graphical abstract: High-efficiency color-tunable ultralong room-temperature phosphorescence from organic–inorganic metal halides via synergistic inter/intramolecular interactions

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
09 Mar 2024
Accepted
21 May 2024
First published
23 May 2024
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
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Chem. Sci., 2024,15, 10046-10055

High-efficiency color-tunable ultralong room-temperature phosphorescence from organic–inorganic metal halides via synergistic inter/intramolecular interactions

L. Zhou, K. Li, Y. Chang, Y. Yao, Y. Peng, M. Li and R. He, Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 10046 DOI: 10.1039/D4SC01630K

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