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Pendant Homopolymer and Copolymers as Solution-Processable Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

Ren, Z.; Nobuyasu, Roberto S.; Dias, Fernando B.; Monkman, Andrew P.; Yan, Shouke; Bryce, Martin R.

Pendant Homopolymer and Copolymers as Solution-Processable Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Thumbnail


Authors

Z. Ren

Roberto S. Nobuyasu

Shouke Yan



Abstract

Materials that display thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) have recently been identified as the third generation emitters for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). However, there are only a few reported examples of polymeric TADF materials. This study reports a series of polymers with an insulating backbone and varying ratios of 2-(10H-phenothiazin-10-yl)dibenzothiophene-S,S-dioxide as a pendant TADF unit. Steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopic data confirm the efficient TADF properties of the polymers. Styrene, as a comonomer, is shown to be a good dispersing unit for the TADF groups, by greatly suppressing the internal conversion and triplet–triplet annihilation. Increasing the styrene content within the copolymers results in relatively high triplet energy, small energy splitting between the singlet and triplet states (ΔEST), and a strong contribution from delayed fluorescence to the overall emission. Green emitting OLED devices employing these polymers as spin-coated emitting layers give high performance, which is dramatically enhanced in the copolymers compared to the homopolymer. Within the series, Copo1 with a regiorandom ratio of 37% TADF units:63% styrene units displays the best performance with a maximum external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 20.1% and EQE at 100 cd m–2 of 5.3%.

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Ren, Z., Nobuyasu, R. S., Dias, F. B., Monkman, A. P., Yan, S., & Bryce, M. R. (2016). Pendant Homopolymer and Copolymers as Solution-Processable Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. Macromolecules, 49(15), 5452-5460. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01216

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jul 16, 2016
Online Publication Date Jul 27, 2016
Publication Date Aug 9, 2016
Deposit Date Jul 29, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Macromolecules
Print ISSN 0024-9297
Electronic ISSN 1520-5835
Publisher American Chemical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 49
Issue 15
Pages 5452-5460
DOI https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01216

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This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Macromolecules, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01216.





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