Theoretical verification of intermolecular hydrogen bond induced thermally activated delayed fluorescence in SOBF-Ome

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/ac1b91

Abstract Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) molecules have attracted great attention as high efficient luminescent materials. Most of TADF molecules possess small energy gap between the first singlet excited state (S₁) and the first triplet excited state (T₁) to favor the up-conversion from T₁ to S₁. In this paper, a new TADF generation mechanism is revealed based on theoretical simulation. By systematic study of the light-emitting properties of SOBF-OMe in both toluene and in aggregation state, we find that the single SOBF-OMe could not realize TADF emission due to large energy gap as well as small up-conversion rates between S₁ and T₁. Through analysis of dimers, we find that dimers with intermolecular hydrogen bond (H-bond) are responsible for the generation of TADF, since smaller energy gap between S₁ and T₁ is found and the emission wavelength is in good agreement with experimental counterpart. The emission properties of SOBF-H are also studied for comparison, which reflect the important role of H-bond. Our theoretical results agree ith experimental results well and confirm the mechanism of H-bond induced TADF.

Keywords: organic light-emitting diodes thermally activated delayed fluorescence intermolecular hydrogen bond decay rates

Received: 30 June 2021
Revised: 28 July 2021
Accepted manuscript online: 07 August 2021

PACS:	33.50.-j	(Fluorescence and phosphorescence; radiationless transitions, quenching (intersystem crossing, internal conversion))
	33.50.Dq	(Fluorescence and phosphorescence spectra)
	33.50.Hv	(Radiationless transitions, quenching)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11974216, 11874242, 21933002, and 11904210), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China (Grant No. ZR2019MA056), the Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province, China, and the Project funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2018M642689).

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

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Mu-Zhen Li(李慕臻), Fei-Yan Li(李飞雁), Qun Zhang(张群), Kai Zhang(张凯), Yu-Zhi Song(宋玉志), Jian-Zhong Fan(范建忠), Chuan-Kui Wang(王传奎), and Li-Li Lin(蔺丽丽) Theoretical verification of intermolecular hydrogen bond induced thermally activated delayed fluorescence in SOBF-Ome 2021 Chin. Phys. B 30 123302

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