A red-emissive two-photon fluorescent probe for mitochondrial sodium ions in live tissue.

A cyclocyanine (CC)-based organic small molecule two-photon (TP) fluorescent probe (CCNa1) was developed for mitochondrial sodium ion sensing. CCNa1 exhibits a low solvatochromic shift and strong TP fluorescence enhancement at 575 nm upon binding to Na+ and is insensitive to other metal ions and to pH. CCNa1 demonstrated fast cell loading ability, biocompatibility, and sensitive response to mitochondrial Na+ influx in live cells and mouse brain tissue.

A study on green organic light-emitting diodes with high electron mobility in hole block and electron transport layers.

The electron mobility and hole blocking ability of BPhen, BCP, and ET137 were investigated by fabricating an electron only device and hole only device, respectively. Although it was observed that ET137 has the highest electron mobility, the device with ET137 as electron transporting layer was unable to obtain high efficiency alone and it was necessary to use a hole blocking layer because of the poor hole blocking ability due to the high-lying HOMO energy level. We fabricated green-emitting phosphorescent devices with various hole blocking layers and electron transporting layers. It was demonstrated that the high electron mobility of the electron transporting layer and hole blocking layer leads to high efficiency in organic light-emitting diodes. The device with BPhen and ET137 as hole blocking layer and electron transporting layer, respectively, showed the best efficiency properties. The maximum values of luminous efficiency, power efficiency, and quantum efficiency were 41.1 cd/A, 26.9 Im/W and 12.4%, respectively.

Solution processed small molecule-based green phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes using polymer binder.

The authors have demonstrated efficient green organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) by using polymer binder. We fabricated small molecular green OLEDs and mixed polymer as a binder such as polystyrene (PS) or poly(N-vinylcarbazole) (PVK). The 4,4'-N,N'-dicarbazole-biphenyl (CBP) is a small molecular material with excellent electrical properties however it become crystalline at high temperature. Polymer binder prevents crystallization of CBP and lead to high efficiency. Therefore, we added PS or PVK into CBP as a polymer binder. As a result, we obtained maximum luminous efficiency, power efficiency and quantum efficiency of 22.8 cd/A, 11.6 Im/W and 6.61% at 23% PS added device.

anti-9,10-Di(1-naphth-yl)anthracene pyridine disolvate.

In the title compound, C(34)H(22)·2C(5)H(5)N, there is a crystallographic inversion center in the middle of the anthracene ring system. The dihedral angle between the mean planes of the anthracene and naphthalene ring systems is 83.96 (4)°. The crystal structure is stabilized by weak inter-molecular C-H⋯N and C-H⋯π inter-actions.