Perspective for aggregation-induced delayed fluorescence mechanism: A QM/MM study

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/aba2d9

Abstract To enhance the potential application of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) molecular materials, new functions are gradually cooperated to the TADF molecules. Aggregation induced emission can effectively solve the fluorescence quenching problem for TADF molecules in solid phase, thus aggregation-induced delayed fluorescence (AIDF) molecules were recently focused. Nevertheless, their luminescent mechanisms are not clear enough. In this work, excited state properties of an AIDF molecule DMF-BP-DMAC[reported in Chemistry-An Asian Journal 14 828 (2019)] are theoretically studied in tetrahydrofuran (THF) and solid phase. For consideration of surrounding environment, the polarizable continuum method (PCM) and the combined quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics (QM/MM) method were applied for solvent and solid phase, respectively. Due to the increase of the transition dipole moment and decrease of the energy difference between the first single excited state (S₁) and the ground state (S₀), the radiative rate is increased by about 2 orders of magnitude in solid phase. The energy dissipation of the non-radiative process from S₁ to S₀ is mainly contributed by low-frequency vibrational modes in solvent, and they can be effectively suppressed in aggregation, which may lead to a slow non-radiation process in solid phase. Both factors would induce enhanced luminescence efficiency of DMF-BP-DMAC in solid phase. Meanwhile, the small energy gap between S₁ and triplet excited states results in high reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) rates in both solvent and solid phase. Therefore, TADF is confirmed in both phases. Aggregation significantly influences both the ISC and RISC processes and more RISC channels are involved in solid state. The enhanced delayed fluorescence should be induced by both the enhanced fluorescent efficiency and ISC efficiency. Our calculation provides a reasonable explanation for experimental measurements and helps one to better understand the luminescence mechanism of AIDF molecules.

Keywords: thermally activated delayed fluorescence aggregation-induced delayed fluorescence the combined quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics method

Received: 02 May 2020
Revised: 23 June 2020
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PACS:

85.60.Bt

(Optoelectronic device characterization, design, and modeling)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11874242, 11974216, and 11904210), Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, China (Grant No. ZR2019MA056), Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province, China, and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2018M642689).

Corresponding Authors: Chuan-Kui Wang, Chuan-Kui Wang
E-mail: ckwang@sdnu.edu.cn;linll@sdnu.edu.cn

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Jie Liu(刘杰), Jianzhong Fan(范建忠), Kai Zhang(张凯), Yuchen Zhang(张雨辰), Chuan-Kui Wang(王传奎), Lili Lin(蔺丽丽) Perspective for aggregation-induced delayed fluorescence mechanism: A QM/MM study 2020 Chin. Phys. B 29 088504

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