PMID- 35839081 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220729 LR - 20220729 IS - 1948-7185 (Electronic) IS - 1948-7185 (Linking) VI - 13 IP - 29 DP - 2022 Jul 28 TI - Tuning Hybridized Local and Charge-Transfer Mixing for Efficient Hot-Exciton Emission with Improved Color Purity. PG - 6664-6673 LID - 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01917 [doi] AB - Delayed fluorescence (DF) emitters with high color purity are of high interest for applications in high-resolution displays. However, the charge transfer required by high emitting efficiency usually conflicts with the expected color purity. In this work, we investigated the S(1)/S(0) conformational relaxation, spin-orbital coupling (SOC), and vibronic coupling of hot-exciton emitters while hybrid local and charge transfer (HLCT) state tuning was achieved by a structural meta-effect. The meta-linkage leads to suppressed S(1)/S(0) conformational relaxation and weakened vibronic coupling, while the unsacrificed emitting efficiency is largely ensured by multiple rISC channels (T(n) --> S(m)) with thermally accessible triplet-singlet energy gap (DeltaE(ST)) and effective SOC. We demonstrated that the unique excited-state mechanism provides opportunities to improve the emitting color purity of hot-exciton emitters without sacrificing emitting efficiency by HLCT state tuning with simple chemical structural modification, for which hot-exciton emitters might play a more important role for high-resolution organic light-emitting diode displays. FAU - Wang, Yaxin AU - Wang Y AD - Institute of Molecular Plus, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China. FAU - Guo, Zilong AU - Guo Z AD - Institute of Molecular Plus, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China. FAU - Gao, Yixuan AU - Gao Y AD - Institute of Molecular Plus, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China. FAU - Tian, Yiran AU - Tian Y AD - Institute of Molecular Plus, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China. FAU - Deng, Yingyi AU - Deng Y AD - Institute of Molecular Plus, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China. FAU - Ma, Xiaonan AU - Ma X AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3591-2451 AD - Institute of Molecular Plus, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China. FAU - Yang, Wensheng AU - Yang W AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2674-6751 AD - Institute of Molecular Plus, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China. AD - Engineering Research Center for Nanomaterials, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, P.R. China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220715 PL - United States TA - J Phys Chem Lett JT - The journal of physical chemistry letters JID - 101526034 SB - IM MH - *Fluorescence EDAT- 2022/07/16 06:00 MHDA- 2022/07/30 06:00 CRDT- 2022/07/15 12:13 PHST- 2022/07/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/07/30 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/07/15 12:13 [entrez] AID - 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01917 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Phys Chem Lett. 2022 Jul 28;13(29):6664-6673. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01917. Epub 2022 Jul 15.