Multi‐Mode Color‐Tunable Long Persistent Luminescence in Single‐Component Coordination Polymers. Issue 5 (3rd December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wang, Zheng; Zhu, Cheng‐Yi; Mo, Jun‐Ting; Xu, Xian‐Yan; Ruan, Jia; Pan, Mei; Su, Cheng‐Yong
• Is Part Of: Angewandte Chemie international edition. Volume 60:Issue 5(2021)
• Page Start: 2526
• Page End: 2533
• Publication Date: 2020-12-03
• Subjects: cadmium -- color tuning -- coordination polymers -- halides -- long persistent luminescence (LPL); Chemistry -- Periodicals; 540
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.202012831
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1433-7851

Abstract

Abstract: Materials with tunable long persistent luminescence (LPL) properties have wide applications in security signs, anti‐counterfeiting, data encrypting, and other fields. However, the majority of reported tunable LPL materials are pure organic molecules or polymers. Herein, a series of metal‐organic coordination polymers displaying color‐tunable LPL were synthesized by the self‐assembly of HTzPTpy ligand with different cadmium halides (X=Cl, Br, and I). In the solid state, their LPL emission colors can be tuned by the time‐evolution, as well as excitation and temperature variation, realizing multi‐mode dynamic color tuning from green to yellow or green to red, and are the first such examples in single‐component coordination polymer materials. Single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction analysis and theoretical calculations reveal that the modification of LPL is due to the balanced action from single molecule and aggregate triplet excited states caused by an external heavy‐atom effect. The results show that the rational introduction of different halide anions into coordination polymers can realize multi‐color LPL. Abstract : By delicate design of coordination polymers incorporating different halogens, multi‐mode color‐tunable long persistent luminescence (LPL) from green to yellow or green to red was possible. The LPL emission colors can be tuned by time, excitation, and temperature, revealing the counter‐balanced mechanisms from single‐molecule and aggregate triplet excited states resulting from an external heavy‐atom effect.