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A New Star-shaped Carbazole Derivative with Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane Core: Crystal Structure and Unique Photoluminescence Property

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A new inorganic–organic hybrid material based on polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) capped with carbazolyl substituents, octakis[3-(carbazol-9-yl)propyldimethylsiloxy]-silsesquioxane (POSS-8Cz), was successfully synthesized and characterized. The X-ray crystal structure of POSS-8Cz were described. The photophysical properties of POSS-8Cz were investigated by using UV–vis, photoluminescence spectroscopic analysis. The hybrid material exhibits blue emission in the solution and the solid film. The morphology and thermal stablity properties were measured by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and TG-DTA analysis.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 61166003), and also supported by the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (IRT0629).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Technology and Intelligent Control (Ministry of Education), Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou, 730070, China

    Zixuan Xu, Tianzhi Yu, Hui Zhang & Jianfeng Li

  2. School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou, 730070, China

    Yuling Zhao, Guoyun Zhao & Lanqin Chai

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The crystallographic data (excluding structure factors) of POSS-8Cz had been deposited with the Cambridge Crystallographic Center as supplementary publication no. CCDC 1401077.

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Xu, Z., Yu, T., Zhao, Y. et al. A New Star-shaped Carbazole Derivative with Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane Core: Crystal Structure and Unique Photoluminescence Property. J Fluoresc 26, 149–154 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10895-015-1694-y

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