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Three-primary-color molecular cocrystals showing white-light luminescence, tunable optical waveguide and ultrahigh polarized emission

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Three-primary-color luminescent materials are highly desirable to construct white-light emitting resource, multi-color optical displays, and tunable photonic applications. However, the efficient strategy to establish the three-primary-color systems with unique photofunctionalities is still rather limited, particularly for molecular materials. Herein, we developed a molecular cocrystal route to obtain three-primary-color emissive materials by tuning different donor-acceptor units based on the same chromophore (4,4′-bis(2,5-dimethylstyryl)biphenyl, Bdb). The warm and cold white-light together with multi-color emission in most of visible region can be highly adjusted by rationally tuning different mixture components of three-primary-color cocrystals through an energy transfer mechanism. Furthermore, the blue/green/red emitters endow Bdb molecular cocrystals novel color-tunable photonic properties (such as one-dimensional (1D)/2D optical waveguide, polarized fluorescence, up-conversion luminescence, and amplified spontaneous emission), benefitting from their well-defined micro/nanostructures and high crystallinity. Particularly, the high luminescence quantum yield (82.49%) and polarized anisotropy (0.723) outperform most of state-of-the-art molecular crystalline materials. Therefore, this work supplies an effective way to fabricate new types of three-primary-color phosphors through luminescent cocrystals, which have promising applications in the fields of full-color displays, white-light irradiation, low-dimensional optical polarization, and micro/nanophotonics.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21771021, 21822501, 22061130206), the Beijing Municipal Natural Science Fundation (JQ20003), the Newton Advanced Fellowship award (NAFR1201285), the Fok Ying-Tong Education Foundation (171008), the Measurements Fund of Beijing Normal University, and the State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing.

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    Shuzhen Li, Yujuan Ma & Dongpeng Yan

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    Yan Hao, Shuai Guo, Chunjie Ding & Ruibin Liu

  3. College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China

    Dongpeng Yan

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Li, S., Hao, Y., Guo, S. et al. Three-primary-color molecular cocrystals showing white-light luminescence, tunable optical waveguide and ultrahigh polarized emission. Sci. China Chem. 65, 408–417 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-021-1130-9

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