高分子电致发光材料研究进展

综述了近几年来国内外关于高分子聚合物在电致发光材料领域的研究进展,重点介绍了聚苯撑乙烯、聚芴类、聚噻吩类聚合物及其衍生物的相关研究成果,并讨论了当前高分子电致发光材料存在的关键问题及应用前景.     

侧链接枝低聚对亚苯基亚乙烯基聚芴衍生物的合成及其电致发光性能

采用Wittig-Horner反应,将少量端基为磷脂的黄光发射客体低聚对亚苯基亚乙烯基链段(MOPV)接枝到含有醛基单体的蓝光发射主体材料聚芴的侧链上,合成了一种新型的接枝聚芴衍生物PF-g-MOPV.这种接枝聚合物具有很好的热稳定性,可溶于常用的有机溶剂.以接枝共聚物PF-g-MOPV为发光层的单层器件发射出黄绿光,色坐标为(0.30,0.57),最大发光亮度达到1550cm/m2,这说明蓝光聚芴主链向侧链MOPV进行了有效地能量转移.     

Luminescent Properties of a Silicone-Carbazolyl Polyfluorene Hybrid Material for Device Applications

In the present work, bilayered hybrids obtained by hydrosilylation of polysiloxane with carbazolyl moieties (Sil-Cz) and polyfluorene (Sil-PFO) had their photophysical behavior, morphological characteristics and interaction properties studied for applications in electroluminescent devices. Fluorescence spectra of the Sil-Cz did not show emission in the excimer/aggregate region (from 400 to 500 nm). This is an unexpected behavior since most of the carbazole-based materials present excimer and aggregation. Nonetheless, this unusual observation was also predicted by geometry optimization calculations. Fluorescence spectra were taken for both compounds separately and for the bilayered system show some evidence of interaction between carbazolyl and polyfluorene moieties, giving rise to the supposition that the can form a system with tunable luminescent properties.     

几种电致发光聚合物材料的研究进展

介绍了几种典型的电致发光聚合物材料,包括聚(对苯乙烯撑)及其衍生物、聚噻吩及其衍生物、聚芴及其衍生物,对它们的结构、制备方法、特点进行了归纳和讨论。其中最重要的是聚(对苯乙烯撑)(PPV)及其衍生物,目前采用较多的制备方法是前聚物法和强碱诱导的去卤缩合法以及电化学聚合法。在苯环上引入长链烷烃、烷氧基或芳基后的取代PPV,即PPV的衍生物,可溶于很多有机溶剂。可溶性PPV衍生物为制备多层电致发光聚合物器件提供了有效途径。文章还对电致发光聚合物材料存在的问题和发展前景进行了探讨和展望。     

Poly(ethylene glycol)-based shape-memory polymers

Poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) blends photo-curable and thermal activated shape-memory polymers (SMPs), with different activation temperature (T_switch), have been synthesized and characterized. PEG blends with different molecular weights were chain-end functionalized with isocyanate ethyl methacrylate and photo-cured with UV lamp. Degree of cross-linking of the blend network, determined by gel content measurement, resulted as higher than 95%. The thermal and thermomechanical properties of these SMPs PEG blends were characterized by differential scanning calorimetry and dynamic mechanical analysis. The shape-memory properties of the networks were quantified using thermomechanical three-point bending experiments and showed strain fixity rates higher than 99% and a minimum strain recovery ratio of 82%.     

吡啶-芴类电荧光聚合物的光谱特性

用Suzuiki聚合反应将二溴代吡啶 (2 ,5 、2 ,6 、3,5 取代 )与芴共聚 ,合成了不同主链结构的吡啶 芴共聚物 .研究结果表明 ,将吡啶基引人聚芴主链可以调节共聚物的发光颜色 .间位吡啶基引入聚芴主链 ,使聚合物的能级加宽 ,PL、EL光谱发生蓝移 ;对位吡啶基则使光谱红移 .间位吡啶基 (3,5 Py、2 ,6 Py)引入聚芴主链 ,可提高聚合物的色纯度 .共聚物中 3,5 Py含量为 4 0mol%时 ,可得到较纯的蓝光 .     

聚芴类电致发光材料

聚芴与其衍生物是一类重要的电致发光聚合物,它们具有较高的光致发光效率,并且易于进行结构修饰,因此受到材料化学家们的高度关注。本文叙述的线索是聚合物结构与其电致发光性能之间的构效关系。通过化学修饰,可以调节材料的前线分子轨道、热和光谱稳定性,进而开发新的发光材料。文中首先简单介绍了聚芴类发光材料的聚合方法,然后把这些聚合物按结构不同分成两个部分介绍：一部分是主链仅含有共轭芴单元的聚合物,它们的化学修饰依赖于芴9位的活性碳原子;另一部分是通过共聚方法得到的主链含有芴和其它基团的聚合物。     

Synthesis and photoinduced electron-transfer process of a novel triphenylamine-substituted polyfluorene-C60 triad

The photoinduced electron-transfer process of a newly prepared, soluble, pi-conjugated poly[9,9-bis(4-diphenylaminophenyl)-2,7-fluorene] (PDPAF), covalently bridged, C60 triad (C60-PDPAF-C60) is described. The molecular orbital calculations revealed that the majority of the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) is located on the polyfluorene entity, while the lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals (LUMO) are found to be entirely on the C60 entity. The excited-state electron-transfer processes were monitored by both steady-state and time-resolved emission as well as by transient absorption techniques in toluene and benzonitrile. By excitation of the polyfluorene moiety, fluorescence quenching of the singlet excited state of polyfluorene moiety was observed. The nanosecond transient spectra in near-IR region revealed the charge-separation process from the polyfluorene moieties to the C60 moiety through the excited singlet states of polyfluorene. The lifetimes of the charge separated states were evaluated to be 20-50 ns, depending on the solvent polarity.     

Geminate charge recombination in alternating polyfluorene copolymer/fullerene blends

By measuring excited state and charge dynamics in blends of an alternating polyfluorene copolymer and fullerene derivative over nine orders in time and two orders in light intensity, we have monitored the light-induced processes from ultrafast charge photogeneration to much slower decay of charges by recombination. We find that at low light intensities relevant to solar cell operation relatively fast (approximately 30 ns) geminate recombination is the dominating charge decay process, while nongeminate recombination has a negligible contribution. The conclusion of our work is that under solar illumination conditions geminate recombination of charges may be directly competing with efficient charge collection in polymer/fullerene solar cells.     

De-aggregation of polyfluorene derivative by blending with a series of poly(alkyl methacrylate)s with varying sidegroup sizes

A polyfluorene derivative of the PPV, poly(9,9′-n-dihexyl-2,7-fluorenedilvinylene-alt-1,4-phenylenevinylene), with a strong tendency to aggregation was blended with several members of a series composed by poly(alkyl methacrylate)s with the following substituents in the ester position: methyl, ethyl, isopropyl, isobutyl, n-butyl, and cyclohexyl. The de-aggregation effect in blends was studied by steady-state photoluminescence spectroscopy using several blend compositions. The efficiency of each dispersing phase was discussed in terms of the polymer miscibility, controlled by interaction parameters between the polyfluorene and every poly(alkyl methacrylate)s, here described using Hildebrand solubility parameters.     

芴与噻吩发光共聚物的合成及其电致发光性能

采用Suzuki偶合方法合成出了一系列新型的 9,9 二辛基芴 (DOF)和噻吩 (Th)的共聚物 .其中 ,DOF与Th的投料比 (摩尔比 )分别为 95∶5 (PTF5 )、90∶1 0 (PTF1 0 )、85∶1 5 (PTF1 5 )、70∶3 0 (PTF3 0 )、5 0∶5 0 (PTF5 0 ) .所有的聚合物均可溶于常用的有机溶剂 ,如THF,CHCl3等 ,其分子量在 60 0 0～ 5 3 0 0 0之间 .当在聚芴主链中引入噻吩后 ,其发光波长发生了红移 ,最大发光波长由PTF5时的 490nm红移到PTF5 0时的 5 41nm .随着聚芴主链中噻吩含量的增加 ,最大电致发光和光致发光效率都逐渐降低 由这些聚合物所制得的器件 ,最大电致发光效率为PTF5和PTF1 0的 0 45 %.由此表明 ,在聚芴主链中引入少量的低带隙单体噻吩可以调节聚芴的发光颜色及发光效率     

Synthesis and characterization of highly stable blue‐light‐emitting hyperbranched conjugated polymers

Polyfluorene homopolymer ( P1 ) and its carbazole derivatives ( P2 – P4 ) have been prepared with good yield by Suzuki coupling polymerization. P2 is an alternating copolymer based on fluorene and carbazole; P3 is a hyperbranched polymer with carbazole derivative as the core and polyfluorene as the long arms; P4 is a hyperbranched polymer with carbazole derivative as the core and the alternating fluorene and carbazole as the long arms. These polymers show highly thermal stability, and their structures and physical properties are studied using gel permeation chromatography, ¹H NMR, ¹³C NMR, elemental analysis, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, thermogravimetry, UV–vis absorption, photoluminescence, and cyclic voltammetry (CV). The influence of the incorporation of carbazole and the hyperbranched structures on the thermal, electrochemical, and electroluminescent properties has been investigated. Both carbazole addition and the hyperbranched structure increase the thermal and photoluminescent stability. The CV shows an increase of the HOMO energy levels for the derivatives, compared with polyfluorene homopolymer ( P1 ). The EL devices fabricated by these polymers exhibit pure blue‐light‐emitting with negligible low‐energy emission bands, indicating that the hyperbranched structure has a strong effect on the PLED characteristics. The results imply that incorporating carbazole into polyfluorene to form a hyperbranched structure is an efficient way to obtain highly stable blue‐light‐emitting conjugated polymers, and it is possible to adjust the property of light‐emitting polymers by the amount of carbazole derivative incorporated into the polymers. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 46: 790–802, 2008     

Synthesis,characterization, and electroluminescence of fluorene and carbazole‐based blue light‐emitting polymers with different noncoplanar molecular architectures

In order to investigate the explicit optoelectronic variations of the photoluminescent polymer with sterically hindered side chains, three novel alternate polymers (P0, P1, and P2) based on fluorene and carbazole moieties were successfully synthesized through Suzuki coupling reaction. The molecular structures of the polymers were fully characterized by ¹H‐NMR, ¹³C‐NMR, elemental analysis, and gel permeation chromatograph, respectively. The photophysical properties, thermal stability, and energy band gaps of polymers P0, P1, and P2 were further examined through UV–vis absorption, photoluminescent spectra, differential scanning calorimetry, thermogravimetric analysis, and cyclic voltammetry. The experimental results indicated that the polymers took on wide band gaps of about 3.50 eV with deep blue emission in thin solid films. These polymers were found to show a high thermal stability with decomposition temperatures at 5% weight loss of the compounds in the range of 353–416 °C. Blue light‐emitting electroluminescent devices of the most branched polymer P2 with highest light‐emitting efficiency as emitting layers were characterized, which showed obviously improved spectral stabilities with respect to the parent polyfluorene materials. In conclusion, we have established an effective method to improve the spectral stabilities of polyfluorene material by synthesizing the zigzag‐shaped copolymer of fluorene and carbazole with sterically hindered pendant moieties of different molecular sizes. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Polyfluorene derivatives pending iridium complexes: Improved optoelectronic properties by introducing D‐A units and altering pendent mode

To study influence of the donor(D)‐acceptor(A) units and pendent mode of phosphorescent moiety on the opto‐electronic properties for its resulting copolymers, two D‐A‐based polyfluorene derivatives ( P 1 and P 2) pending the red‐emitting iridium bi(phenylisoquilonato) (picolinato) [Ir(Piq)₂(pic)] unit and a polyfluorene derivative ( P 3) only pending Ir(Piq)₂(pic) unit were synthesized and characterized, in which the donor of carbazole, the acceptor of oxadiazole are grafted into the C‐9 position of fluorene, the Ir(Piq)₂(pic) unit is pended into either the C‐9 position for P 1 and P 3 or the end for P 2 of fluorene by unconjugated linkage, respectively. Their opto‐electronic properties were significantly influenced by the D‐A units and pendent mode of the Ir(Piq)₂(pic) unit. In the polymer light‐emitting devices with a configuration of ITO/PEDOT/polymers/LiF/Al, the P 1 showed best electroluminescent properties than the P 2 and P 3. The maximum current efficiency of 0.72 cd/A and the highest luminance of 1398 cd/m 2 were obtained in the P 1‐based device, which are 1.3 and 1.5 times higher than those in the P 2‐based device, respectively. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2012     

An X‐shaped π‐conjugated polymer comprising of fluorene units and anthracene units with high efficiency. Synthesis and optical and electrochemical properties

A new X‐shaped π‐conjugated monomer comprising of fluorene units and anthracene units was synthesized, and it was used to fabricate the new X‐shaped π‐conjugated polymers and investigate the properties of the new polymers. Using different molar ratios between such monomer and a fluorene monomer gave three polymers that showed higher absolute PL quantum yields than the linear polyfluorene (PF) in the solid state. After thermal annealing at 200 °C for 4 h, the linear PF showed an additional bathochromic emission at about 550 nm, whereas such red‐shifted emission was fully eliminated for the X‐shaped polymers. The electroluminescent devices based on the X‐shaped polymers with a configuration of ITO/PEDOT:PSS/polymer/LiF/Ca/Al displayed blue emission with low turn‐on voltage and high brightness. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 46: 5616–5625, 2008     

Sensitive triplet exciton detection in polyfluorene using Pd-coordinated porphyrin

We developed a sensitive spectroscopic method to probe triplet concentration in thin films of polyfluorene (PF) at room temperature. The energy of photoexcited triplet excitons is transferred to the guest metal-organic complex, meso-tetratolylporphyrin-Pd (PdTPP), and detected as phosphorescent emission. The phosphorescence intensity of PdTPP-PF blends is proportional to the independently measured triplet concentration using photoinduced absorption experiments. The high sensitivity of this method allows room temperature detection of triplet excitons in spin-coated polymer films as thin as 10 nm. We found that the triplet lifetime is independent of PdTPP concentration and therefore this method is nearly non-perturbing for the triplet population.     

3,9-咔唑聚合物基态和激发态性质的理论研究

用密度泛函B3LYP方法对3,9-咔唑低聚物[(3,9-carbazole)n(n=1,2,3,4,6,8)]体系进行了全优化, 计算得到电离能、电子亲合势、空穴抽取能及电子抽取能等相关能量, 用ZINDO和TD-DFT方法计算得到吸收光谱; 分析了各种能量的变化及光谱规律. 用外推法由低聚物分子的各种性质与聚合度n相联系得到高聚物的性质, 将所得结果与2,7-咔唑(2,7-carbazole)及类似聚合物进行了比较分析. 结果表明, 3,9位聚合的咔唑整体共轭程度降低, 光谱蓝移, 其IP值和聚芴相近, 可以作为空穴接受材料应用于多层电子荧光器件的空穴传输层. 用CIS方法进行优化得到部分分子的S1激发态结构, 用ZINDO和TD-DFT方法得到对应的发射光谱.     

芴-含氮芳杂环共聚物的载流子注入特性

为了改善聚芴的载流子注入特性,采用密度泛函理论B3LYP/6-31G*方法计算比较了芴、芴-联吡啶和芴-菲咯啉低聚物的几何结构、电子结构、最低激发能及重组能等,并外推到相应聚合物.结果发现:联吡啶/菲咯啉含氮芳杂环的缺电子性质能够诱导聚芴的最高占据轨道(HOMO)和最低空轨道(LUMO)能级分别下降0.45/0.47eV和0.32/0.38eV,提高电子注入能力的同时,调控载流子注入平衡;联吡啶单元的引入导致电子和空穴重组能升高(降低聚芴的载流子迁移率),而芴-菲咯啉共聚物显示了与聚芴相似的迁移性能.     

一种可光交联聚芴蓝光材料的合成与表征

有机电致发光器件代表了未来显示技术的发展趋势,已引起学术界、企业界和政府部门的广泛关注[1~4].目前,全色显示是有机电致发光器件商业化的控制因素之一,成为当前研究的一项热点.利用多层器件结构获得的白色电致发光器件,可以有效地提高平板显示器的分辨率.与有机小分子相比,     

High-efficiency, environment-friendly electroluminescent polymers with stable high work function metal as a cathode: green- and yellow-emitting conjugated polyfluorene polyelectrolytes and their neutral precursors

A series of aminoalkyl-substituted polyfluorene copolymers with benzothiadiazole (BTDZ) of different content were synthesized by Suzuki coupling reaction, and their quaternized ammonium polyelectrolyte derivatives were obtained through a postpolymerization treatment on the terminal amino groups. Copolymers are soluble in environmentally friendlier solvents, such as alcohols. It was found that the efficient energy transfer occurs by exciton trapping on the narrow band gap BTDZ site under UV illumination. Only 1% of BTDZ content is needed to completely quench a fluorene emission for both the neutral and the quaternized copolymers in the neat film. Absolute PL efficiencies of copolymer films were greatly enhanced as a result of the suppression of excimer formation. Light-emitting devices fabricated from these copolymers show high external quantum efficiencies over 3% and 1% for the neutral precursor and the quaternized copolymers, respectively, with high work function metals such as Al as a cathode. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on an electroluminescent polymer which bears the high EL efficiency, the electron-injection ability from high work function metals, and the solubility in environment-friendly solvents at the same time. These features make them a promising candidate for the next generation of light-emitting copolymers in PLED flat panel display application.