Fabrication of Colorless Organic Materials Exhibiting White Luminescence Using Normal and Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer Processes

By Hideaki Shono, Tatsuya Ohkawa, Haruhiko Tomoda, Toshiki Mutai, Koji Araki

May 22, 2018

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Title

Fabrication of Colorless Organic Materials Exhibiting White Luminescence Using Normal and Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer Processes

Author

Hideaki Shono, Tatsuya Ohkawa, Haruhiko Tomoda, Toshiki Mutai, Koji Araki

Year

2011

Journal

Applied Materials & Interfaces

Abstract

Organic, white luminescent materials were fabricated using a mixture of proton-transfer and nonproton-transfer fluorophores. 2′-Methoxy and 2′-hydroxy derivatives of 2-phenylimidazo[1,2-a]pyridine (PIP) have similar UV-absorption properties; however, they exhibit mechanistically different luminescence respectively ascribable to the normal (∼420 nm) and excited-state intramolecular proton transfer processes (∼530 nm) in the solid state. UV-irradiation of mixed solids excites both components concurrently and results in efficient white luminescence composed of two independent emissions without involving energy transfer process. White luminescent solids are easily transformed into vapor-deposited films under mild conditions, and a colorless and transparent thin film by dissolving in PMMA.

Full Article

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/am200022z

Instrument

FP-6600

Keywords

Fluorescence, Materials