聚合物发光电化学池的研究——中国科学院有机固体重点实验室导电聚合物电化学研究工作简介(Ⅱ)

简要介绍本研究组 1997年以来在聚合物发光电化学池 (LEC)研究中取得的一些成果,包括发光聚合物的电化学性质及其HOMO和LUMO能级的电化学测量,LECp i n结的交流阻抗分析,双功能嵌段共聚物LEC,以及咪唑盐离子液体掺杂的室温准冷冻p i n结LEC等.     

Synthesis and optical properties of fluorene and p-phenylenevinylene copolymers containing non-conjugated spacer

A series of alternating fluorene and p-phenylenevinylene copolymers containing non-conjugated spacer have been synthesized through the Wittig polycondensation reaction. These amorphous copolymers are highly soluble in common organic solvents and can be spin-cast to obtain transparent films. The effects of non-conjugated spacers in the main chain and the methoxyl groups on the side chain on the thermal behavior, photoluminescence (PL) and electroluminescence (EL) properties of these copolymers have been investigated in detail. Single-layered light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have been fabricated in the configuration of ITO/PEDOT/copolymer/Ca/Al and emitted blue light in the range of 456-492 nm. The measurements of current vs voltage show turn-on voltages at 6.2-12.4 V. Among the LEDs based on the six copolymers, the maximum EL brightness and efficiency of the LED based on P1 containing 4CH₂ aliphatic segment length in the main chain and without methoxyl groups on side chain are reached 3936 cd/m² and 0.70 cd/A, respectively.     

Phenylene vinylene‐based electroluminescent polymers with electron transport block in the main chain

We report a new route for the design of soluble phenylene vinylene (PV) based electroluminescent polymers bearing electron‐deficient oxadizole (OXD) and triazole (TZ) moieties in the main chains with the aryloxy linkage. Both series of the PV‐based polymers were prepared by Wittig reaction. By properly adjusting the OXD and/or TZ content through copolymerization, we can achieve an enhanced balance of hole‐ and electron injections, such that the device efficiency is significantly improved. Light‐emitting diodes fabricated from P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, P6, and P7 with the configuration of Indium–Tin Oxide (ITO)/Poly (styrene sulfonic acid) doped poly (ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT)/polymer/Ca/Al, emit bright green light with the maximum peak around 500 nm. For the device using the optimal polymer (P4) as emitting layer, a maximum brightness of 1300 cd/m² at 20 V and a maximum luminance efficiency of 0.325 cd/A can be obtained. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 44: 3469–3478, 2006     

Blue-light emitting diodes and flat display based on poly (p-phenylenevinylene) copolymers

Copolymers containing alternating flexible aliphatic blocks and rigid poly (p-phenylenevinylene) (PPV) blocks were synthesized and characterized. It was found that the fluorescent intensity increases with increasing length of the flexible blocks. Bright blue-light emitting diodes were fabricated using PPV copolymers as electroluminescent layers. The devices show 190 cd/m² light-emitting brightness at 460 nm and 15 V turn-on voltage. The effects of oxadiawle derivative PBD and tris(8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminum Alq₃ electron-transporting layers on the luminance and stability of the devices are discussed. Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, PCLCC, the State Comission of Science and Technology of China (863-715-002-0130) and the Chinese Acadeny of Sciences (KJ951-A1-501-01)     

Electroluminescent block copolymers containing oxadiazole and thiophene via ATRP

Block copolymers containing thiophene units in one block and oxadiazole (OXD) units in the other were prepared. Atom transfer radical polymerization method was used to obtain the thiophene‐containing mesogen‐jacketed polymers, and the kinetic study indicated that the polymerization was controllable and the polymers could be used to initiate the polymerization of the OXD‐containing monomers. Photoluminescent spectra indicated that the fluorescence quantum yields of the polymers increased with increasing content of OXD. And, more OXD domains, that is, more interfaces between the hole‐transport parts and electron‐transport parts, resulting in the higher probability of exciplex formation. The electroluminescent devices containing the block copolymer with 64 mol % OXD as the emissive layer had a maximum brightness of 127 cd/m² and an extremely low onset voltage of 7.7 V, which indicated that the injection and transport of charge carriers were facilitated and the number of charge carriers was sufficiently high in early time after the voltage was turned on. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2010     

苯基取代聚苯撑乙烯的合成及其电致发光性能

聚苯撑乙烯(PPV)类聚合物是优异的发光材料, 有望作为全色显示中三基色的材料之一得到应用. 我们采用2-溴-1,4-亚二甲苯二乙酯为原料, 合成了商品名为Supper Yellow PPV (SY PPV)的苯基取代PPV. 中间体、单体和聚合物的结构都通过核磁共振、元素分析进行了表征. SY PPV的吸收峰在434 nm, 吸收边在510 nm, 带隙2.44 eV. 光致发光峰值和电致发光峰值分别在516和552 nm. SY PPV的器件性能为: 启动电压为2.4 V, 最大亮度大于49000 cd·m^-2, 最大流明效率为21 cd·A^-1, 显著优于采用老方法合成SY PPV的最大流明效率(16-18 cd·A^-1).     

Triphenylamine-Derived Solid-State Emissive Carbon Dots for Multicolor High-Efficiency Electroluminescent Light-Emitting Diodes

Two kinds of triphenylamine-derived solid-state emissive carbon dots (CDs) with orange and yellow color are facilely synthesized through solvothermal treatment, taking advantage of the nonplanar structure and good carrier mobility of triphenylamine unit. Theoretical calculations show that the triphenylamine structure could greatly inhibit the direct π–π stacking of aromatic skeletons and enhance the fluorescence properties of CDs in aggregation state. By adopting the CDs as single emissive layer, high-performance orange-color and green-color electroluminescent light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are successfully fabricated, with maximum brightness of 9450/4236 cd m⁻², high current efficiency of 1.57/2.34 cd A⁻¹ and low turn-on voltage of 3.1/3.6 eV are respectively achieved. Significantly, white-color LED device is further prepared. This work provides a universal platform for the construction of novel solid-state emissive CDs with significant applications in photoelectric device.     

High-efficiency poly(p-phenylenevinylene)-based copolymers containing an oxadiazole pendant group for light-emitting diodes

A new series of high brightness and luminance efficient poly(p-phenylenevinylene) (PPV)-based electroluminescent (EL) polymers, poly[2-[4-[5-(4-(3,7-dimethyloctyloxy)phenyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole-2-yl]phenyloxy]-1,4-phenylenevinylene] (Oxa-PPV), poly[2-[2-((3,7-dimethyloctyl)oxy)phenoxy]-1,4-phenylenevinylene] (DMOP-PPV), and their corresponding random copolymers, poly[[2-[4-[5-(4-(3,7-dimethyloctyloxy)phenyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole-2-yl]phenyloxy]-1,4-phenylenevinylene]-co-[2-[2-((3,7-dimethyloctyl)oxy) phenoxy]-1,4-phenylenevinylene]] (Oxa-PPV-co-DMOP-PPV), with an electron-deficient 1,3,4-oxadiazole unit on the side groups, were synthesized through the Gilch polymerization method. The newly designed and synthesized asymmetric molecular structures of Oxa-PPV, DMOP-PPV, and Oxa-PPV-co-DMOP-PPV were completely soluble in common organic solvents, and defect-free optical thin film was easily spin-coated onto the indium tin oxide (ITO) substrate. Oxa-PPV shows a high glass transition temperature (T(g)), which might be an advantage for long time operation of polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs). Double-layer LEDs with an ITO/PEDOT/polymer/Al configuration were fabricated by using those polymers. Electrooptical properties and device performance could be adjusted by introducing the Oxa-PPV content in the copolymers. The emission colors could be tuned from green to yellowish-orange via intramolecular energy transfer. The improved device performance of Oxa-PPV over DMOP-PPV and Oxa-PPV-co-DMOP-PPV may be due to better electron injection and charge balance between holes and electrons and also efficient intramolecular energy transfer from 1,3,4-oxadiazole units to PPV backbones. The maximum brightness and the luminance efficiency of Oxa-PPV were up to 19395 cd/m(2) at 14 V and 21.1 cd/A at 5930 cd/m(2). The maximum luminance efficiency of Oxa-PPV is ranked the highest value among the PPV derivatives to date.     

Blue-light emitting diodes and flat display based on poly(p-phenylenevinylene) copolymers

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Synthesis and electrochemical and electroluminescent properties of N‐phenylcarbazole‐substituted poly(p‐phenylenevinylene)

An N‐phenylcarbazole‐containing poly(p‐phenylenevinylene) (PPV), poly[(2‐(4′‐carbazol‐9‐yl‐phenyl)‐5‐octyloxy‐1,4‐phenylenevinylene)‐alt‐(2‐(2′‐ethylhexyloxy)‐5‐methoxy‐1,4‐phenylenevinylene)] (Cz‐PPV), was synthesized, and its optical, electrochemical, and electroluminescent properties were studied. The molecular structures of the key intermediates, the carbazole‐containing boronic ester and the dialdehyde monomer, were crystallographically characterized. The polymer was soluble in common organic solvents and exhibited good thermal stability with a 5% weight loss at temperatures above 420 °C in nitrogen. A cyclic voltammogram showed the oxidation peak potentials of both the pendant carbazole group and the PPV main chain, indicating that the hole‐injection ability of the polymer would be improved by the introduction of the carbazole‐functional group. A single‐layer light‐emitting diode (LED) with a simple configuration of indium tin oxide (ITO)/Cz‐PPV (80 nm)/Ca/Al exhibited a bright yellow emission with a brightness of 1560 cd/m² at a bias of 11 V and a current density of 565 mA/cm². A double‐layer LED device with the configuration of ITO/poly(3,4‐ethylenedioxy‐2,5‐thiophene):poly (styrenesulfonic acid) (60 nm)/Cz‐PPV (80 nm)/Ca/Al gave a low turn‐on voltage at 3 V and a maximum brightness of 6600 cd/m² at a bias of 8 V. The maximum electroluminescent efficiency corresponding to the double‐layer device was 1.15 cd/A, 0.42 lm/W, and 0.5%. The desired electroluminescence results demonstrated that the incorporation of hole‐transporting functional groups into the PPVs was effective for enhancing the electroluminescent performance. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 43: 5765–5773, 2005     

含稀土铕络合物的三元共聚物的光电性质

合成了可平衡电荷(空穴与电子)传输的三功能合一的稀土铕发光材料,将几种稀土铕络合物单体与乙烯基咔唑、甲基丙烯酸甲酯共聚制得含咔唑和稀土铕络合物的空穴传输层发光层电子传输层(HTLEMLETL)三功能合一的聚合物,并研究它们的电化学及电致发光性能.电化学分析表明这类三元共聚物兼有氧化性和还原性,氧化电位及还原电位分别为0.75V和-1.8V左右,可见这类材料同时具有空穴传输和电子传输功能.从测定的电致发光谱看,AlQ3、TPD及咔唑基等发光单元在器件中没有共发光,而是起电荷传输作用,以这些材料制作的电致发光器件所发的红光纯度都比较高.     

New thermally stable aggregation-induced emission enhancement compounds for non-doped red organic light-emitting diodes

New thermally stable aggregation-induced emission enhancement compounds were synthesized. A non-doped red device showed a maximum brightness of 13,535 cd m(-2), a maximum current efficiency of 6.81 cd A(-1), a maximum power efficiency of 4.96 lm W(-1) and a low turn-on voltage of 4.3 V.     

含铽三元共聚物的合成及其发光性能研究

报道了新型的可平衡电荷(空穴与电子)传输的稀土铽-聚合物发光材料的合成, 将稀土铽配合物单体与乙烯基咔唑、甲基丙烯酸甲酯共聚制得含咔唑和稀土铽配合物的HTL-EML-ETL三功能合一的聚合物, 通过FT-IR, GPC, NMR及元素分析对其结构进行表征, 并研究了这类材料的光致及电致发光性能. 在含铽三元共聚物的薄膜荧光中, 来自咔唑基的荧光出现“固态猝灭”, 而来自稀土铽离子的荧光则明显加强, 这是由于二者的失活机制不同引起的. 以含铽三元共聚物制作的单层器件主要发射铽离子的特征荧光.     

Functionality of peripheral side chain for enhanced performance of conjugated polymer—F8BT as an example

A series of F8BT‐based copolymers (PCFBTs) with functional peripheral side chains were designed and synthesized. The complementation of side chain with polymer backbone in electronic and optical properties was realized. Electron‐riched carbazole moieties on the peripheral side chains of fluorene unit significantly reduce the first oxidation potential and increase the highest occupied molecular orbital energy levels of PCFBTs. Increase of hole injection and transport ability was achieved in PCFBTs. Among them, PCFBT shows a maximum luminous efficiency of 0.7 cd/A and a turn‐on voltage of 3.0 V in the single‐layered device, which are better than F8BT without the carbazole moieties (0.1 cd/A, 3.8 V). The radios of fluorene and benzothiadiazole (BTz) unit in polymers were adjusted to balance the electron and hole transport, and PCFBT0.2 (BTz:fluorene = 2:8) exhibits 13 times higher maximum luminous efficiency (10.8 cd/A) than F8BT (0.8 cd/A) in a double‐layered device. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2011     

High-efficiency red-light emission from polyfluorenes grafted with cyclometalated iridium complexes and charge transport moiety

We report a new route for the design of electroluminescent polymers by grafting high-efficiency phosphorescent organometallic complexes as dopants and charge transport moieties onto alky side chains of fully conjugated polymers for polymer light-emitting diodes (PLED) with single layer/single polymers. The polymer system studied involves polyfluorene (PF) as the base conjugated polymer, carbazole (Cz) as the charge transport moiety and a source for green emission by forming an electroplex with the PF main chain, and cyclometalated iridium (Ir) complexes as the phosphorescent dopant. Energy transfer from the green Ir complex or an electroplex formed between the fluorene main chain and side-chain carbazole moieties, in addition to that from the PF main chain, to the red Ir complex can significantly enhance the device performance, and a red light-emitting device with the high efficiency 2.8 cd/A at 7 V and 65 cd/m2, comparable to that of the same Ir complex-based OLED, and a broad-band light-emitting device containing blue, green, and red peaks (2.16 cd/A at 9 V) are obtained.     

Synthesis and optoelectronic properties of alternating benzofuran/terfluorene copolymer with stable blue emission

The solution processable alternating benzofuran/terfluorene copolymer bearing side oxadiazole groups ( PBF‐OXD ) was synthesized and its optoelectronic properties and color stability were investigated. Electron‐deficient and stereohindered oxadiazole units were used as pendent groups to compensate for the poor electron‐transporting ability of a p‐type polymer backbone, to depress the intermolecular π‐stacking, and to improve solubility while retaining polymer blue emission. PBF‐OXD showed a glass transition at 135 °C and an onset decomposition temperature of ～345 °C. A simple EL device, with the configuration of ITO/PEDOT:PSS/ PBF‐OXD /Ba/Al, displayed a stable blue emission (λ_max = 434 nm), good color purity (full width half‐maximum = 59 nm), maximum brightness of 1400 cd/m², and a maximum luminance efficiency of 0.95 cd/A. The PL and EL spectra changed slightly on annealing and on increasing the applied voltage. These results show that the as‐synthesized copolymer PBF‐OXD had integrated respective functions of its different building blocks and exhibited good thermal and color stability with improved EL performance. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 47: 5488–5497, 2009     

Synthesis and characterization of polyfluorenes containing bisphenazine units

Novel conjugated copolymers based on 9,9‐dioctylfluorene and bisphenazine (BP) were synthesized by Suzuki polymerization. Energy transfer from the conjugated main chain to the BP moieties was observed. Full energy transfer was achieved when the molar content of the bisphenazine was 20% (20BPPF) in toluene solution. The similar phenomena were observed even for 1% bisphenazine content copolymer (1BPPF) in film. The lowest occupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energy levels (?3.06 eV) of the copolymers were lower than that of the polyfluorene homopolymer (PFO; ?2.65 eV), indicating that the introduction of the BP unit was benefit to electron injection. Single‐layer electroluminescent devices (ITO/PEDOT:PSS/polymer/LiF/Al) were fabricated to investigate their electroluminescence (EL) performances. The maximum brightness and current efficiency of all BPPF copolymers surpassed the PFO homopolymer. The best single‐layer device was based on 5BPPF, with a maximum brightness of 1532 cd/m² and current efficiency of 1.09 cd/A. Much higher efficiency could be achieved for multilayer EL devices of 5BPPF (ITO/PEDOT:PSS/PVK/polymer/TPBI/LiF/Al), which showed a maximum current efficiency of 10.01 cd/A. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 48: 1990–1999, 2010     

Polyfluorene presenting dipolar pendent groups and its application to electroluminescent devices

We have synthesized a blue-light-emitting polyfluorene derivative (PF-TPAOXD) that presents sterically hindered, dipolar pendent groups functionalized at the C-9 positions of alternating fluorene units. The incorporation of the dipolar side chains, each comprising an electron-rich triphenylamine group and an electron-deficient oxadiazole group connected through a π-conjugated bridge, endows the resultant polymer with higher highest occupied molecular orbital and lower lowest unoccupied molecular orbital energy levels, which, consequently, lead to an increase in both hole and electron affinities. An electroluminescent device incorporating this polymer as the emitting layer exhibited a stable blue emission with a maximum brightness of 2080 cd/m² at 12 V and a maximum external quantum efficiency of 1.4% at a brightness of 137 cd/m². Furthermore, atomic force microscopy measurements indicated that the dipolar nature of PF-TPAOXD, in contrast to the general nonpolarity of polydialkylfluorenes, provided a stabilizing environment allowing the polar organometallic triplet dopant to be dispersed homogeneously. We also fabricated an electrophosphorescent device incorporating PF-TPAOXD as the host material doped with a red-emitting osmium complex to realize red electroluminescence with Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage color coordinates of (0.66, 0.34). The resulting device exhibited a maximum external quantum efficiency of 7.3% at a brightness of 1747 cd/m² and a maximum brightness of 7244 cd/m². © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 45: 2073–2084, 2007     

基于聚芳醚的双色白光聚合物的合成与光物理及电致发光性能

采用缩聚反应,通过将深蓝光荧光团(五联芴)和橙光荧光团(4-芴基-7-(4-二苯胺基-苯基)-2,1,3-苯并噻二唑)分别链接在聚芳醚的侧链上,合成了一种双色白光电致发光聚芳醚P1,接着将一种高效浅蓝光荧光团(2,7-二(9-乙基-咔唑乙烯基)芴)引入到了P1的侧链上,得到了聚芳醚P2和P3.系统研究了这些聚芳醚材料的溶解性、热稳定性、电化学性能、光物理性能和电致发光性能等.结果表明,所有聚芳醚都具有良好的溶解性与热稳定性;薄膜态时存在明显的由深蓝光荧光团到浅蓝光荧光团及橙光荧光团的能量转移;退火前后的薄膜光致发光光谱基本一致,表明具有优秀的光谱稳定性.基于这些聚芳醚的单层电致发光器件(ITO/PEDOT:PSS/高分子/Ca/Al),利用部分能量转移和电荷俘获作用,可以实现近白光发射.器件的最大电流效率可以达到7.96 cd/A,最大亮度为9950 cd/m2,色坐标为(0.33,0.44).     

Synthesis and characterization of poly(fluorene)‐based copolymers containing various 1,3,4‐oxadiazole pendants

A series of soluble alternating poly(fluorene)‐based copolymers containing electron‐transporting 1,3,4‐oxadiazole (OXD) and hole‐transporting carbazole pendants attached to the C‐9 position of fluorene units by long alkyl spacers were synthesized. These copolymers possess mesogenic and nonmesogenic pendants attached to a rigid mesogenic poly(fluorene) (PF) backbone. All these polymers exhibit glass‐forming liquid crystalline properties, including the nematic and smectic A (SmA) phases, and reveal much wider mesophasic temperature ranges than that of PF. The thermal properties and mesomorphism of these conjugated polymers are mainly affected by the nature of these pendants, and thus the mesophasic temperature ranges and glass‐forming properties are greatly enhanced by introducing the OXD pendants. In addition, the tendencies of crystallization and aggregation of PF are also suppressed by introducing the OXD pendants. A single layer device with P4 as an emitter shows a turn‐on voltage of 5 V and a bright luminescence of 2694 cd/m² at 11 V with a power efficiency of 1.28 cd/A at 100 mA/cm². © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 43: 2700–2711, 2005