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  • Azaborine as a Versatile We...
    Sudhakar, Pagidi; Kuila, Suman; Stavrou, Kleitos; Danos, Andrew; Slawin, Alexandra M. Z.; Monkman, Andrew; Zysman-Colman, Eli

    ACS applied materials & interfaces, 05/2023, Letnik: 15, Številka: 21
    Journal Article

    Extensive research has been devoted to the development of thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters, especially those showing pure-blue emission for use in lighting and full-color display applications. Toward that goal, herein we report a novel weak donor, 1,4-azaborine (AZB), with complementary electronic and structural properties compared to the widely used dimethylacridan (DMAC) or carbazole (Cz) donors. Coupled with a triazine acceptor, AZB-Ph-TRZ is the direct structural analogue of the high-performance and well-studied green TADF emitter DMAC-TRZ and has ΔE ST = 0.39 eV, a photoluminescence quantum yield (ΦPL) of 27%, and λPL = 415 nm in 10 wt % doped mCP films. The shortened analogue AZB-TRZ possesses red-shifted emission with a reduced singlet–triplet gap (ΔE ST = 0.01 eV) and fast reverse intersystem crossing (k RISC of 5 × 106 s–1) in mCP. Despite a moderate ΦPL of 34%, OLEDs with AZB-TRZ in mCP showed sky-blue emission with CIE1931(x,y) of (0.22,0.39) and a maximum external quantum efficiency (EQEmax) of 10.5%. Expanding the chemist’s toolkit for the design of blue donor–acceptor TADF materials will enable yet further advances in the future, as AZB is paired with a wider range of acceptor groups.