Proton triggered circularly polarized luminescence in orthogonal- and co-assemblies of chiral gelators with achiral perylene bisimide.

The orthogonal- or co-assembly of achiral perylene bisimide (PBI) with chiral gelators can be regulated by solvents. While the coassembly leads to the formation of chiroptical nanofibers through chirality transfer, the orthogonal assemblies could not. Moreover, protonation on the coassembled nanofibers could light up the circularly polarized luminescence (CPL).

Photon upconversion in organic nanoparticles and subsequent amplification by plasmonic silver nanowires.

The development of photonic materials with high photoluminescence is always a challenge in photochemistry and photophysics. Here we present a general approach for enhancing photon upconversion through aggregation and further via surface plasmon resonance (SPR). Luminescent nanoparticles from a tetraphenylethylene derivative were fabricated, showing excellent aggregation-induced emission (AIE) behavior. By mixing with a triplet sensitizer platinum octaethylporphyrin (PtOEP), aggregation-induced photon upconversion (iPUC) could be achieved, resulting in an enhancement of the emission. Blending such iPUC nanoparticles with silver nanowires (AgNWs), the upconverted emission intensity could be significantly amplified due to the SPR of AgNWs. Thus, the concepts of aggregation-induced emission (AIE), metal enhanced fluorescence (MEF) and aggregation-induced photon upconversion (iPUC) were successfully integrated and achieved.

Engineering the Interconnecting Position of Star-Shaped Donor-π-Acceptor Molecules Based on Triazine, Spirofluorene, and Triphenylamine Moieties for Color Tuning from Deep Blue to Green.

Pi-conjugated organic molecules featuring the donor-bridge-acceptor (D-π-A) structure have been widely used in semiconducting materials owing to their rigid structure, good thermal stability, excellent charge transfer, and high emission efficiency. To investigate the effect of the D-π-A molecular structure on the photophysical properties, in this contribution, three star-shaped D-π-A isomers based on the 2,4,6-triphenyl-1,3,5-triazine, spirofluorene, and triphenylamine moieties, that is, p-TFTPA, mp-TFTPA, and m-TFTPA, were synthesized by elaborately engineering the interconnecting position in the building-block units. The optophysical properties of these compounds were systematically explored by experiments and theory calculations. Definitively, changing the interconnecting position in these molecules played a significant role in the degree of π conjugation, which resulted in tunable emission colors from deep blue to green. Moreover, these isomers were employed as emissive dopants in organic light-emitting diodes. The highest external quantum efficiency of 2.3 % and current efficiency of 6.2 cd A(-1) were achieved by using the p-TFTPA based device. This research demonstrates a feasible way to realize blue emitters by engineering D-π-A conjugation.