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Three‐ and Four‐Coordinate, Boron‐Based, Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Emitters

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Peripheral Selenium Modification of Multi‐Resonance Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Molecules for High‐Performance Blue Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes

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Research Progress on Aggregation-Induced Delayed Fluorescence in Materials and Devices

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Judicious Use of Chalcogens in Multiresonant Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Emitters Leads to OLEDs with Efficiencies Exceeding 36% and Showing Mild Efficiency Roll‐Off

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3D Triptycene‐Fused Acridine Electron Donor Enables High‐Efficiency Nondoped Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent OLEDs

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A Diboron-Based Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Material for Versatile Applications of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

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The Golden Age of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials: Design and Exploitation

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Characterizing the Conformational Distribution in an Amorphous Film of an Organic Emitter and Its Application in a “Self‐Doping” Organic Light‐Emitting Diode

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Achieving Ultimate Narrowband and Ultrapure Blue Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes Based on Polycyclo‐Heteraborin Multi‐Resonance Delayed‐Fluorescence Emitters

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Blue Aggregation-Induced Delayed Fluorescence Materials with 5,10-Dihydrodibenzo[b,e][1,4]azasiline as Donor

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