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Small-molecule based thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials with dual-emission characteristics

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Organic thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters have attracted increasing concerns, owing to their atypical photophysical features that can pave the way to the innovative engineering applications. As cutting-edge type of luminescent molecules, however, most of them only exert a single-wavelength emission from the lowest excited state, according to Kasha’s rule. To develop their potential applications in multicolor luminescence and multi-functional luminescent probes for biological imaging, researchers have begun to turn their attention to design organic TADF molecules with dual-emission characteristics, by employing an additional fluorescence, phosphorescence, or TADF signal within a single-component system. We herein summarized the design principles as well as the luminescence mechanism of organic donor-acceptor TADF compounds with dual-emission characteristics, the superiority of which can cover unique material applications in modern luminescence-related fields.

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This work was supported by Taiyuan University of Technology and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21975046).

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    Xuping Li, Chenchen Zhang, Miaoqing Liu & Jianjun Lu

  2. State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China

    Shen Shen & Liangliang Zhu

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Li, X., Shen, S., Zhang, C. et al. Small-molecule based thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials with dual-emission characteristics. Sci. China Chem. 64, 534–546 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-020-9908-5

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