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Very High Efficiency Orange-Red Light-Emitting Devices with Low Roll-Off at High Luminance Based on an Ideal Host-Guest System Consisting of Two Novel Phosphorescent Iridium Complexes with Bipolar Transport (2014)
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Li, G., Zhu, D., Peng, T., Liu, Y., Wang, Y., & Bryce, M. R. (2014). Very High Efficiency Orange-Red Light-Emitting Devices with Low Roll-Off at High Luminance Based on an Ideal Host-Guest System Consisting of Two Novel Phosphorescent Iridium Complexes with Bipolar Transport. Advanced Functional Materials, 24(47), 7420-7426. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201402177

Two phosphorescent iridium complexes with bipolar transporting ability, namely FPPCA (500 nm) and BZQPG (600 nm), are synthesized and employed as an ideal host-guest system for phosphorescent organic light emitting diodes (PHOLEDs).The devices give v... Read More about Very High Efficiency Orange-Red Light-Emitting Devices with Low Roll-Off at High Luminance Based on an Ideal Host-Guest System Consisting of Two Novel Phosphorescent Iridium Complexes with Bipolar Transport.

Electrochemical control of single-molecule conductance by Fermi-level tuning and conjugation switching (2014)
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Baghernejad, M., Zhao, X., Ørnsø, K., Füeg, M., Moreno-García, P., Rudnev, A., …Bryce, M. (2014). Electrochemical control of single-molecule conductance by Fermi-level tuning and conjugation switching. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 136(52), 17922-17925. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja510335z

Controlling charge transport through a single molecule connected to metallic electrodes remains one of the most fundamental challenges of nanoelectronics. Here we use electrochemical gating to reversibly tune the conductance of two different organic... Read More about Electrochemical control of single-molecule conductance by Fermi-level tuning and conjugation switching.

A versatile hybrid polyphenylsilane host for highly efficient solution-processed blue and deep blue electrophosphorescence (2014)
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Sun, D., Zhou, X., Li, H., Sun, X., Zheng, Y., Ren, Z., …Yan, S. (2014). A versatile hybrid polyphenylsilane host for highly efficient solution-processed blue and deep blue electrophosphorescence. Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, 2(39), 8277-8284. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4tc01467g

A universal hybrid polymeric host (PCzSiPh) for blue and deep blue phosphors has been designed and synthesized by incorporating electron-donating carbazole as pendants on a polytetraphenylsilane main chain. The polymer PCzSiPh (4) has a wide bandgap... Read More about A versatile hybrid polyphenylsilane host for highly efficient solution-processed blue and deep blue electrophosphorescence.

Structural versus Electrical Functionalization of Oligo(phenyleneethynylene) Diamine Molecular Junctions (2014)
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González, M. T., Zhao, X., Manrique, D. Z., Miguel, D., Leary, E., Gulcur, M., …Agraït, N. (2014). Structural versus Electrical Functionalization of Oligo(phenyleneethynylene) Diamine Molecular Junctions. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118(37), 21655-21662. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp506078a

We explore both experimentally and theoretically the conductance and packing of molecular junctions based on oligo(phenyleneethynylene) (OPE) diamine wires, when a series of functional groups are incorporated into the wires. Using the scanning tunnel... Read More about Structural versus Electrical Functionalization of Oligo(phenyleneethynylene) Diamine Molecular Junctions.

Bimetallic Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Diastereomers with Non-Innocent Bridging Ligands for High-Efficiency Phosphorescent OLEDs (2014)
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Zheng, Y., Batsanov, A., Fox, M., Al-Attar, H., Abdullah, K., Jankus, V., …Monkman, A. (2014). Bimetallic Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Diastereomers with Non-Innocent Bridging Ligands for High-Efficiency Phosphorescent OLEDs. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 53(43), 11616-11619. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201407475

Two phosphorescent dinuclear iridium(III) diastereomers (ΛΔ/ΔΛ) and (ΛΛ/ΔΔ) are readily separated by making use of their different solubilities in hot hexane. The bridging diarylhydrazide ligand plays an important role in the electrochemistry and pho... Read More about Bimetallic Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Diastereomers with Non-Innocent Bridging Ligands for High-Efficiency Phosphorescent OLEDs.

Highly Efficient TADF OLEDs: How the Emitter–Host Interaction Controls Both the Excited State Species and Electrical Properties of the Devices to Achieve Near 100% Triplet Harvesting and High Efficiency (2014)
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Jankus, V., Data, P., Graves, D., McGuinness, C., Santos, J., Bryce, M., …Monkman, A. (2014). Highly Efficient TADF OLEDs: How the Emitter–Host Interaction Controls Both the Excited State Species and Electrical Properties of the Devices to Achieve Near 100% Triplet Harvesting and High Efficiency. Advanced Functional Materials, 24(39), 6178-6186. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201400948

New emitters that can harvest both singlet and triplet excited states to give 100% internal conversion of charge into light, are required to replace Ir based phosphors in organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). Molecules that have a charge transfer (C... Read More about Highly Efficient TADF OLEDs: How the Emitter–Host Interaction Controls Both the Excited State Species and Electrical Properties of the Devices to Achieve Near 100% Triplet Harvesting and High Efficiency.

Anisotropic highly-conductive films of poly(3-methylthiophene) from epitaxial electropolymerization on oriented poly(vinylidene fluoride) (2014)
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Sun, D., Li, Y., Ren, Z., Bryce, M. R., Li, H., & Yan, S. (2014). Anisotropic highly-conductive films of poly(3-methylthiophene) from epitaxial electropolymerization on oriented poly(vinylidene fluoride). Chemical Science, 5(8), 3240-3245. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4sc01068j

Electrochemical polymerization of 3-methylthiophene on highly oriented poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) film was achieved by cyclic voltammetry to yield well-ordered poly(3-methylthiophene) (P3MT) thin films with anisotropic structural and conductivi... Read More about Anisotropic highly-conductive films of poly(3-methylthiophene) from epitaxial electropolymerization on oriented poly(vinylidene fluoride).

Efficient deep blue fluorescent polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs) (2014)
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Cook, J. H., Santos, J., Li, H., Al-Attar, H. A., Bryce, M. R., & Monkman, A. P. (2014). Efficient deep blue fluorescent polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs). Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, 2(28), 5587-5592. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4tc00896k

A new series of deep blue/blue emitting co-polymers are reported. Poly(9,9-dihexylfluorene-3,6-diyl and 2,7-diyl-co-2,8-dihexyldibenzothiophene-S,S-dioxide-3,7-diyl) derivatives p(F-S) of varying composition have been synthesised. The effects of two... Read More about Efficient deep blue fluorescent polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs).

New ionic dinuclear Ir(III) Schiff base complexes with aggregation-induced phosphorescent emission (AIPE) (2014)
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Li, G., Wu, Y., Shan, G., Che, W., Zhu, D., Song, B., …Bryce, M. R. (2014). New ionic dinuclear Ir(III) Schiff base complexes with aggregation-induced phosphorescent emission (AIPE). Chemical Communications, 50(53), 6977-6980. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4cc01799d

Two new ionic dinuclear Ir(III) Schiff base complexes which are straightforward to synthesise have luminescence quantum yields as high as 37% in neat films. These are the first examples of dinuclear ionic Ir(III) complexes that display aggregation-in... Read More about New ionic dinuclear Ir(III) Schiff base complexes with aggregation-induced phosphorescent emission (AIPE).

Intramolecular π Stacking in Cationic Iridium(III) Complexes with Phenyl-Functionalized Cyclometalated Ligands: Synthesis, Structure, Photophysical Properties, and Theoretical Studies (2014)
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Li, P., Shan, G., Cao, H., Zhu, D., Su, Z., Jitchati, R., & Bryce, M. R. (2014). Intramolecular π Stacking in Cationic Iridium(III) Complexes with Phenyl-Functionalized Cyclometalated Ligands: Synthesis, Structure, Photophysical Properties, and Theoretical Studies. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2014(14), 2376-2382. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201400007

The syntheses of two new heteroleptic cationic iridium complexes containing 2,6-diphenylpyridine (Hdppy) and 2,4,6-triphenylpyridine (Htppy) as the cyclometalated ligands, namely, [Ir(dppy)2phen]PF6 (1, phen = 1,10-phenanthroline) and [Ir(tppy)2phen]... Read More about Intramolecular π Stacking in Cationic Iridium(III) Complexes with Phenyl-Functionalized Cyclometalated Ligands: Synthesis, Structure, Photophysical Properties, and Theoretical Studies.

The Synthesis of Functionalised Diaryltetraynes and Their Transport Properties in Single-Molecule Junctions (2014)
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Gulcur, M., Moreno-García, P., Zhao, X., Baghernejad, M., Batsanov, A., Hong, W., …Wandlowski, T. (2014). The Synthesis of Functionalised Diaryltetraynes and Their Transport Properties in Single-Molecule Junctions. Chemistry - A European Journal, 20(16), 4653-4660. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201304671

The synthesis and characterisation is described of six diaryltetrayne derivatives [Ar-(C[TRIPLE BOND]C)4-Ar] with Ar=4-NO2-C6H4- (NO24), 4-NH(Me)C6H4- (NHMe4), 4-NMe2C6H4- (NMe24), 4-NH2-(2,6-dimethyl)C6H4- (DMeNH24), 5-indolyl (IN4) and 5-benzothien... Read More about The Synthesis of Functionalised Diaryltetraynes and Their Transport Properties in Single-Molecule Junctions.

A Carbazole-Oxadiazole Diad Molecule for Single-Emitting-Component White Organic Light-Emitting Devices (WOLEDs) (2014)
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Wu, X., Wang, L., Hua, Y., Wang, C., Batsanov, A. S., & Bryce, M. R. (2014). A Carbazole-Oxadiazole Diad Molecule for Single-Emitting-Component White Organic Light-Emitting Devices (WOLEDs). Tetrahedron, 70(11), 2015-2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2014.01.073

The synthesis is reported of a new molecule consisting of N-phenylcarbazole linked through a butadiyne bridge to 2,5-diphenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazole. The compound shows blue photoluminescence with positive solvatochromism: e.g., λmax 401 nm in cyclohexane,... Read More about A Carbazole-Oxadiazole Diad Molecule for Single-Emitting-Component White Organic Light-Emitting Devices (WOLEDs).

A study of planar anchor groups for graphene-based single-molecule electronics (2014)
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Bailey, S., Visontai, D., Lambert, C. J., Bryce, M. R., Frampton, H., & Chappell, D. (2014). A study of planar anchor groups for graphene-based single-molecule electronics. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 140(5), Article 054708. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4861941

To identify families of stable planar anchor groups for use in single molecule electronics, we report detailed results for the binding energies of two families of anthracene and pyrene derivatives adsorbed onto graphene. We find that all the selected... Read More about A study of planar anchor groups for graphene-based single-molecule electronics.