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Arousing Electrochemiluminescence Out of Non-Electroluminescent Monomers within Covalent Organic Frameworks

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) with stable long-range ordered arrangements are promising materials for organic optoelectronics. However, their electrochemiluminescence (ECL) from non-ECL active monomers has not been realized. Here, we report a design strategy for ECL-emitting COF family. The don...

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Published in:ACS applied materials & interfaces 2021-10, Vol.13 (40), p.47921-47931
Main Authors: Li, Ya-Jie, Cui, Wei-Rong, Jiang, Qiao-Qiao, Liang, Ru-Ping, Li, Xue-Jing, Wu, Qiong, Luo, Qiu-Xia, Liu, Juewen, Qiu, Jian-Ding
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Summary:Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) with stable long-range ordered arrangements are promising materials for organic optoelectronics. However, their electrochemiluminescence (ECL) from non-ECL active monomers has not been realized. Here, we report a design strategy for ECL-emitting COF family. The donors and acceptors co-crystallized and stacked into the highly aligned array of olefin-linked COFs, so that electrons can be transported freely. By this means, a tunable ECL is activated from non-ECL molecules with the maximum efficiency of 32.1% in water with the dissolved oxygen as an inner coreactant, and no additional noxious co-reactant is needed any more. Quantum chemistry calculations further demonstrate that this design reduces the COFs’ band gaps and the overlap of electrons and holes in the excited state for better photoelectric properties and stronger ECL signals. This work exploits a basis to envisage the broad application potential of ECL–COFs for various biosensors and light-emitting display.
ISSN:1944-8244
1944-8252
DOI:10.1021/acsami.1c12958