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- Title
Highly efficient color-tunable organic co-crystals unveiling polymorphism, isomerism, delayed fluorescence for optical waveguides and cell-imaging.
- Authors
Barman, Debasish; Annadhasan, Mari; Bidkar, Anil Parsram; Rajamalli, Pachaiyappan; Barman, Debika; Ghosh, Siddhartha Sankar; Chandrasekar, Rajadurai; Iyer, Parameswar Krishnan
- Abstract
Photofunctional co-crystal engineering strategies based on donor-acceptor π-conjugated system facilitates expedient molecular packing, consistent morphology, and switchable optical properties, conferring synergic 'structure-property relationship' for optoelectronic and biological functions. In this work, a series of organic co-crystals were formulated using a twisted aromatic hydrocarbon (TAH) donor and three diverse planar acceptors, resulting in color-tunable solid and aggregated state emission via variable packing and through-space charge-transfer interactions. While, adjusting the strength of acceptors, a structural transformation into hybrid stacking modes ultimately results in color-specific polymorphs, a configurational cis-isomer with very high photoluminescence quantum yield. The cis-isomeric co-crystal exhibits triplet-harvesting thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) characteristics, presenting a key discovery in hydrocarbon-based multicomponent systems. Further, 1D-microrod-shaped co-crystal acts as an efficient photon-transducing optical waveguides, and their excellent dispersibility in water endows efficient cellular internalization with bright cell imaging performances. These salient approaches may open more avenues for the design and applications of TAH based co-crystals. Co-crystals of donor-acceptor functional material pairs give switchable optical properties despite challenging aggregation-caused quenching effects. Here, the authors report several organic co-crystals with thermally-activated delayed fluorescence, waveguiding and bio-imaging application.
- Subjects
DELAYED fluorescence; OPTICAL waveguides; FLUORESCENCE; ISOMERISM; OPTICAL properties; CELL imaging
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2023, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-023-42017-8