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Dr Fernando Dias' Outputs (125)

Dinuclear Design of a Pt(II) Complex Affording Highly Efficient Red Emission: Photophysical Properties and Application in Solution-Processible OLEDs (2019)
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Shafikov, M. Z., Daniels, R., Pander, P., Dias, F. B., Williams, J. G., & Kozhevnikov, V. N. (2019). Dinuclear Design of a Pt(II) Complex Affording Highly Efficient Red Emission: Photophysical Properties and Application in Solution-Processible OLEDs. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 11(8), 8182-8193. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b18928

The light-emitting efficiency of luminescent materials is invariably compromised on moving to the red and near-infrared regions of the spectrum due to the transfer of electronic excited-state energy into vibrations. We describe how this undesirable “... Read More about Dinuclear Design of a Pt(II) Complex Affording Highly Efficient Red Emission: Photophysical Properties and Application in Solution-Processible OLEDs.

Dynamics of aggregated states resolved by gated fluorescence in films of room temperature phosphorescent emitters (2019)
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dos Santos, P. L. L., Silveira, O. J., Huang, R., Jardim, G., Matos, M. J. S., da Silva Júnior, E. N., Monkman, A. P., Dias, F. B., & Cury, L. A. (2019). Dynamics of aggregated states resolved by gated fluorescence in films of room temperature phosphorescent emitters. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21(7), 3814-3821. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cp07005a

Phenazine derivative molecules were studied using steady state and time resolved fluorescence techniques and demonstrated to lead to strong formation of aggregated species, identified as dimers by time dependent density functional theory calculations... Read More about Dynamics of aggregated states resolved by gated fluorescence in films of room temperature phosphorescent emitters.

Time-resolved Photophysical Characterization of Triplet-Harvesting Organic Compounds at Oxygen-Free Environment Using an iCCD Camera (2018)
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Pander, P., Data1, P., & Dias, F. B. (2018). Time-resolved Photophysical Characterization of Triplet-Harvesting Organic Compounds at Oxygen-Free Environment Using an iCCD Camera. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 142, Article e56614. https://doi.org/10.3791/56614

Here, we present a sensible method of the acquisition and analysis of time-resolved photoluminescence using an ultrafast iCCD camera. This system enables the acquisition of photoluminescence spectra covering the time regime from nanoseconds up to 0.1... Read More about Time-resolved Photophysical Characterization of Triplet-Harvesting Organic Compounds at Oxygen-Free Environment Using an iCCD Camera.

An iminodibenzyl–quinoxaline–iminodibenzyl scaffold as a mechanochromic and dual emitter: donor and bridge effects on optical properties (2018)
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Pashazadeh, R., Pander, P., Bucinskas, A., Skabara, P. J., Dias, F. B., & Grazulevicius, J. V. (2018). An iminodibenzyl–quinoxaline–iminodibenzyl scaffold as a mechanochromic and dual emitter: donor and bridge effects on optical properties. Chemical Communications, 54(98), 13857-13860. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cc06981f

The influence of phenyl linkage and donor strength on the photophysical properties of new derivatives of quinoxaline-containing iminodibenzyl and iminostilbene moieties is studied. The donor–acceptor derivatives showed dual thermally activated delaye... Read More about An iminodibenzyl–quinoxaline–iminodibenzyl scaffold as a mechanochromic and dual emitter: donor and bridge effects on optical properties.

Intramolecular Charge Transfer Controls Switching Between Room Temperature Phosphorescence and Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence (2018)
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Chen, C., Huang, R., Batsanov, A., Pander, P., Hsu, Y.-T., Chi, Z., Dias, F., & Bryce, M. R. (2018). Intramolecular Charge Transfer Controls Switching Between Room Temperature Phosphorescence and Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence. Angewandte Chemie, 130(50), 16645-16649. https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.201809945

Chemical modification of phenothiazine–benzophenone derivatives is shown to tune the emission behavior from triplet states by selecting the molecular geometry of the intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) state. A fundamental principle of planar ICT (P... Read More about Intramolecular Charge Transfer Controls Switching Between Room Temperature Phosphorescence and Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence.

Bond Rotations and Heteroatom Effects in Donor-Acceptor-Donor Molecules: Implications for Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Room Temperature Phosphorescence (2018)
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Ward, J. S., Nobuyasu, R. S., Fox, M. A., Batsanov, A. S., Santos, J., Dias, F. B., & Bryce, M. R. (2018). Bond Rotations and Heteroatom Effects in Donor-Acceptor-Donor Molecules: Implications for Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Room Temperature Phosphorescence. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 83(23), 14431-14442. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.8b02187

The synthesis of 1-methylphenoxazine via CO2-directed lithiation chemistry is reported. This electron donor was coupled with 2,8-dibenzothiophene-S,S-dioxide with Buchwald–Hartwig chemistry to give a new D–A–D charge-transfer fluorescent molecule 1b.... Read More about Bond Rotations and Heteroatom Effects in Donor-Acceptor-Donor Molecules: Implications for Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Room Temperature Phosphorescence.

Observation of Dual Room Temperature Fluorescence-Phosphorescence in Air, in the Crystal Form of a Thianthrene Derivative (2018)
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Pander, P. H., Swist, A., Turczyn, R. M., Pouget, S., Djurado, D., Lazauskas, A., Pashazadeh, R., Grazulevicius, J. V., Motyka, R., Klimash, A., Skabara, P., Data, P., Sołoducho, J., & Dias, F. B. (2018). Observation of Dual Room Temperature Fluorescence-Phosphorescence in Air, in the Crystal Form of a Thianthrene Derivative. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 122(43), 24958-24966. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b08329

Thianthrenes have been nearly forgotten as phosphors in recent years, but are now coming back, showing their strong potential in luminescent applications. Here, we present a comprehensive photophysical study of a carbazolyl derivative of thianthrene... Read More about Observation of Dual Room Temperature Fluorescence-Phosphorescence in Air, in the Crystal Form of a Thianthrene Derivative.

Intermolecular Interactions in Molecular Crystals and Their Effect on Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence of Helicene-Based Emitters (2018)
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Klimash, A., Pander, P. H., Klooster, W., Coles, S., Data, P., Dias, F., & Skabara, P. (2018). Intermolecular Interactions in Molecular Crystals and Their Effect on Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence of Helicene-Based Emitters. Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, 6(39), 10557-10568. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8tc03390k

Here, we discuss the influence of the crystal structure on the photophysical properties of two new TADF emitters containing a non-planar helical moiety. The presence of solvent in the crystal lattice of a diaza[5]helicene-based compound alters molecu... Read More about Intermolecular Interactions in Molecular Crystals and Their Effect on Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence of Helicene-Based Emitters.

The influence of molecular conformation on the photophysics of organic room temperature phosphorescent luminophores (2018)
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Huang, R., Ward, J. S., Kukhta, N. A., Avó, J., Gibson, J., Penfold, T., Lima, J. C., Batsanov, A. S., Berberan-Santos, M. N., Bryce, M. R., & Dias, F. B. (2018). The influence of molecular conformation on the photophysics of organic room temperature phosphorescent luminophores. Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, 10(34), 9238-9247. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8tc02987c

A series of novel donor–acceptor–donor (D–A–D) compounds featuring dibenzothiophene (DBT) and phenothiazine (PTZ) units are presented. A different degree of steric hindrance between the donor and acceptor fragments is achieved by the systematic chang... Read More about The influence of molecular conformation on the photophysics of organic room temperature phosphorescent luminophores.

Thermally-Activated Delayed Fluorescence in Polymer-Small Molecule Exciplex Blends for Solution-Processed Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (2018)
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Pander, P. H., Gogoc, S., Colella, M., Data, P., & Dias, F. B. (2018). Thermally-Activated Delayed Fluorescence in Polymer-Small Molecule Exciplex Blends for Solution-Processed Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 10(34), 28796-28802. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b07554

The photophysics of an exciplex state, formed between a small molecule and a polymer, is investigated in this work. The results obtained with this blend show the strong potential of polymer-small molecule blends for triplet harvesting in organic ligh... Read More about Thermally-Activated Delayed Fluorescence in Polymer-Small Molecule Exciplex Blends for Solution-Processed Organic Light-Emitting Diodes.

Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence with Narrow Emission Spectrum and Organic Room Temperature Phosphorescence by Controlling Spin-Orbit Coupling and Phosphorescence Lifetime of Metal-Free Organic Molecules (2018)
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Pander, P. H., Swist, A., Soloducho, J., Dias, F., & Data, P. (2018). Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence with Narrow Emission Spectrum and Organic Room Temperature Phosphorescence by Controlling Spin-Orbit Coupling and Phosphorescence Lifetime of Metal-Free Organic Molecules. Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, 6(20), 5434--5443. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8tc00175h

This work shows a study of two organic molecules with very similar, large singlet-triplet gap of which one is a TADF emitter and the other an RTP emitter. By investigation of photophysical properties of these compounds, it is possible to explain thei... Read More about Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence with Narrow Emission Spectrum and Organic Room Temperature Phosphorescence by Controlling Spin-Orbit Coupling and Phosphorescence Lifetime of Metal-Free Organic Molecules.

The theory of thermally activated delayed fluorescence for organic light emitting diodes (2018)
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Penfold, T., Dias, F., & Monkman, A. (2018). The theory of thermally activated delayed fluorescence for organic light emitting diodes. Chemical Communications, 54(32), 3926-3935. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7cc09612g

The interest in organic molecules exhibiting Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence (TADF) has been reinvigorated in recent years owing to their potential to be exploited as emitters in highly efficient purely organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs).... Read More about The theory of thermally activated delayed fluorescence for organic light emitting diodes.

1,2,4-Triazines in the Synthesis of Bipyridine Bisphenolate O^N^N^O Ligands and Their Highly Luminescent Tetradentate Pt(II) Complexes for Solution-Processable OLEDs (2018)
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Pander, P., Bulmer, R., Martinscroft, R., Thompson, S., Lewis, F., Penfold, T., …Kozhevnikov, V. (2018). 1,2,4-Triazines in the Synthesis of Bipyridine Bisphenolate O^N^N^O Ligands and Their Highly Luminescent Tetradentate Pt(II) Complexes for Solution-Processable OLEDs. Inorganic Chemistry, 57(7), 3825-3832. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b03175

Easily accessible bis-1,2,4-triazines can be converted to corresponding pyridines by the Boger reaction, opening up convenient synthesis pathways to salen-type tetradentate dianionic ligands. The new ligands were used to prepare highly luminescent ON... Read More about 1,2,4-Triazines in the Synthesis of Bipyridine Bisphenolate O^N^N^O Ligands and Their Highly Luminescent Tetradentate Pt(II) Complexes for Solution-Processable OLEDs.

Multicolor Luminescence Switching and Controllable Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Turn on/Turn off in Carbazole–Quinoxaline–Carbazole Triads (2018)
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Pashazadeh, R., Pander, P., Lazauskas, A., Dias, F. B., & Grazulevicius, J. V. (2018). Multicolor Luminescence Switching and Controllable Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Turn on/Turn off in Carbazole–Quinoxaline–Carbazole Triads. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 9(5), 1172-1177. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00136

We report a series of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) molecules with mechanochromic luminescence properties and reversible TADF turn on/off properties in solid state that are induced by the transition between amorphous and crystalline... Read More about Multicolor Luminescence Switching and Controllable Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Turn on/Turn off in Carbazole–Quinoxaline–Carbazole Triads.

Solution-Processable Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence White OLEDs Based on Dual-Emission Polymers with Tunable Emission Colors and Aggregation Enhanced Emission Properties (2017)
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Li, C., Nobuyasu, R. S., Wang, Y., Dias, F. B., Ren, Z., Bryce, M. R., & Yan, S. (2017). Solution-Processable Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence White OLEDs Based on Dual-Emission Polymers with Tunable Emission Colors and Aggregation Enhanced Emission Properties. Advanced Optical Materials, 5(20), Article 1700435. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201700435

Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) white organic light-emitting diodes (WOLEDs) have drawn tremendous interest and have been extensively studied because of harvesting both triplet and singlet excitons without heavy metals. However, singl... Read More about Solution-Processable Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence White OLEDs Based on Dual-Emission Polymers with Tunable Emission Colors and Aggregation Enhanced Emission Properties.

Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence in Cu(I) Complexes Originating from Restricted Molecular Vibrations (2017)
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Li, G., Nobuyasu, R., Zhang, B., Geng, Y., Yao, B., Xie, Z., …Bryce, M. (2017). Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence in Cu(I) Complexes Originating from Restricted Molecular Vibrations. Chemistry - A European Journal, 23(49), 11761-11766. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201701862

The mechanism of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) in molecules in aggregated or condensed solid states has been rarely studied and is not well understood. Nevertheless, many applications of TADF emitters are strongly affected by their... Read More about Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence in Cu(I) Complexes Originating from Restricted Molecular Vibrations.

The Contributions of Molecular Vibrations and Higher Triplet Levels to the Intersystem Crossing Mechanism in Metal-Free Organic Emitters (2017)
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Huang, R., Avó, J., Northey, T., Chaning-Pearce, E., dos Santos, P. L., Ward, J. S., …Dias, F. B. (2017). The Contributions of Molecular Vibrations and Higher Triplet Levels to the Intersystem Crossing Mechanism in Metal-Free Organic Emitters. Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, 5(25), 6269-6280. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7tc01958k

Intense, simultaneous, room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) and thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) is observed in a series of donor-acceptor-donor (D–A–D) molecules. This dual-luminescence is stronger in the “angular” isomers, compared... Read More about The Contributions of Molecular Vibrations and Higher Triplet Levels to the Intersystem Crossing Mechanism in Metal-Free Organic Emitters.

Regio- and conformational isomerization critical to design of efficient thermally-activated delayed fluorescence emitters (2017)
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Etherington, M. K., Franchello, F., Gibson, J., Northey, T., Santos, J., Ward, J. S., …Monkman, A. P. (2017). Regio- and conformational isomerization critical to design of efficient thermally-activated delayed fluorescence emitters. Nature Communications, 8, Article 14987. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14987

Regio- and conformational isomerization are fundamental in chemistry, with profound effects upon physical properties, however their role in excited state properties is less developed. Here two regioisomers of bis(10H-phenothiazin-10-yl)dibenzo[b,d]th... Read More about Regio- and conformational isomerization critical to design of efficient thermally-activated delayed fluorescence emitters.

Room Temperature Phosphorescence Lifetime and Spectrum Tuning of Substituted Thianthrenes (2017)
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Pander, P., Swist, A., Soloducho, J., & Dias, F. B. (2017). Room Temperature Phosphorescence Lifetime and Spectrum Tuning of Substituted Thianthrenes. Dyes and Pigments, 142, 315-322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2017.03.049

A group of thianthrene derivatives has been studied to investigate the effect of different substituents and substitution positions on their photophysical behavior. Strong room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) and dual fluorescence-phosphorescence at... Read More about Room Temperature Phosphorescence Lifetime and Spectrum Tuning of Substituted Thianthrenes.