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Revealing the spin–vibronic coupling mechanism of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (2016)
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Etherington, M. K., Gibson, J., Higginbotham, H. F., Penfold, T. J., & Monkman, A. P. (2016). Revealing the spin–vibronic coupling mechanism of thermally activated delayed fluorescence. Nature Communications, 7, Article 13680. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13680

Knowing the underlying photophysics of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) allows proper design of high efficiency organic light-emitting diodes. We have proposed a model to describe reverse intersystem crossing (rISC) in donor–acceptor c... Read More about Revealing the spin–vibronic coupling mechanism of thermally activated delayed fluorescence.

Indirect consequences of exciplex states on the phosphorescence lifetime of phenazine-based 1,2,3-triazole luminescent probes (2016)
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Costa, B. B. A., Jardim, G. A. M., Santos, P. L., Calado, H. D. R., Monkman, A. P., Dias, F. B., da Silva Júnior, E. N., & Cury, L. (2017). Indirect consequences of exciplex states on the phosphorescence lifetime of phenazine-based 1,2,3-triazole luminescent probes. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19(5), 3473-3479. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6cp06134f

The optical properties of phenazine derivative probe solutions involving intersystem crossing from singlet to triplet states were investigated by time resolved spectroscopy. The room temperature phosphorescence emission presented different time respo... Read More about Indirect consequences of exciplex states on the phosphorescence lifetime of phenazine-based 1,2,3-triazole luminescent probes.

Sulfonyl-Substituted Heteroleptic Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Complexes as Blue Emitters for Solution-Processable Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (2016)
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Benjamin, H., Zheng, Y., Batsanov, A., Fox, M., Al-Attar, H., Monkman, A., & Bryce, M. (2016). Sulfonyl-Substituted Heteroleptic Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Complexes as Blue Emitters for Solution-Processable Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. Inorganic Chemistry, 55(17), 8612-8627. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b01179

The synthesis is reported of a series of blue-emitting heteroleptic iridium complexes with phenylpyridine (ppy) ligands substituted with sulfonyl, fluorine, and/or methoxy substituents on the phenyl ring and a picolinate (pic) ancillary ligand. Some... Read More about Sulfonyl-Substituted Heteroleptic Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Complexes as Blue Emitters for Solution-Processable Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes.

Using Guest–Host Interactions To Optimize the Efficiency of TADF OLEDs (2016)
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dos Santos, P. L., Ward, J. S., Bryce, M. R., & Monkman, A. P. (2016). Using Guest–Host Interactions To Optimize the Efficiency of TADF OLEDs. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2016(7), 3341-3346. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b01542

We show that the emitter and host combination must be optimized to minimize the reverse intersystem crossing (rISC) barrier and maximize thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF). The blue TADF emitter, 2,7-bis(9,9-dimethyl-acridin-10-yl)-9,9-d... Read More about Using Guest–Host Interactions To Optimize the Efficiency of TADF OLEDs.

Pendant Homopolymer and Copolymers as Solution-Processable Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (2016)
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Ren, Z., Nobuyasu, R. S., Dias, F. B., Monkman, A. P., Yan, S., & Bryce, M. R. (2016). Pendant Homopolymer and Copolymers as Solution-Processable Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. Macromolecules, 49(15), 5452-5460. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01216

Materials that display thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) have recently been identified as the third generation emitters for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). However, there are only a few reported examples of polymeric TADF materia... Read More about Pendant Homopolymer and Copolymers as Solution-Processable Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes.

Investigation of the Mechanisms Giving Rise to TADF in Exciplex States (2016)
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dos Santos, P. L., Dias, F. B., & Monkman, A. P. (2016). Investigation of the Mechanisms Giving Rise to TADF in Exciplex States. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120(32), 18259-18267. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b05198

The donor–acceptor systems studied in this work have been demonstrated to show strong exciplex formation by their red-shifted PL emission when compared with the individual donor and acceptor molecules, and all give rise to delayed fluorescence. In al... Read More about Investigation of the Mechanisms Giving Rise to TADF in Exciplex States.

The Importance of Vibronic Coupling for Efficient Reverse Intersystem Crossing in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Molecules (2016)
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Gibson, J., Monkman, A., & Penfold, T. (2016). The Importance of Vibronic Coupling for Efficient Reverse Intersystem Crossing in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Molecules. ChemPhysChem, 17(19), 2956-2961. https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201600662

Factors influencing the rate of reverse intersystem crossing (krISC) in thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters are critical for improving the efficiency and performance of third-generation heavy-metal-free organic light-emitting dio... Read More about The Importance of Vibronic Coupling for Efficient Reverse Intersystem Crossing in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Molecules.

The Role of Local Triplet Excited States and D-A Relative Orientation in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Photophysics and Devices (2016)
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Dias, F., Santos, J., Graves, D., Data, P., Nobuyasu, R., Fox, M., …Monkman, A. (2016). The Role of Local Triplet Excited States and D-A Relative Orientation in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Photophysics and Devices. Advanced Science, 3(12), Article 1600080. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.201600080

Here, a comprehensive photophysical investigation of a the emitter molecule DPTZ-DBTO2, showing thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF), with near-orthogonal electron donor (D) and acceptor (A) units is reported. It is shown that DPTZ-DBTO2 h... Read More about The Role of Local Triplet Excited States and D-A Relative Orientation in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Photophysics and Devices.

Star-Shaped Conjugated Molecules with Oxa- or Thiadiazole Bithiophene Side Arms (2016)
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Kotwica, K., Kostyuchenko, A. S., Data, P., Marszalek, T., Skorka, L., Jaroch, T., …Pron, A. (2016). Star-Shaped Conjugated Molecules with Oxa- or Thiadiazole Bithiophene Side Arms. Chemistry - A European Journal, 22(33), 11795-11806. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201600984

Star-shaped conjugated molecules, consisting of a benzene central unit symmetrically trisubstituted with either oxa- or thiadiazole bithiophene groups, were synthesized as promising molecules and building blocks for application in (opto)electronics a... Read More about Star-Shaped Conjugated Molecules with Oxa- or Thiadiazole Bithiophene Side Arms.

Electric Field Induce Blue Shift and Intensity Enhancement in 2D Exciplex Organic Light Emitting Diodes; Controlling Electron-Hole Separation (2016)
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Al Attar, H. A., & Monkman, A. P. (2016). Electric Field Induce Blue Shift and Intensity Enhancement in 2D Exciplex Organic Light Emitting Diodes; Controlling Electron-Hole Separation. Advanced Materials, 28(36), 8014-8020. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201600965

A simple but novel method is designed to study the characteristics of the exciplex state pinned at a donor–acceptor abrupt interface and the effect an external electric field has on these excited states. The reverse Onsager process, where the field i... Read More about Electric Field Induce Blue Shift and Intensity Enhancement in 2D Exciplex Organic Light Emitting Diodes; Controlling Electron-Hole Separation.