Lighting Up Solid States Using a Rubber

Overview

Journal Nat Commun

Specialty Biology

Date 2021 Feb 11

PMID 33568677

Citations 3

Authors

Zhongyu Li

Yanjie Wang

Gleb Baryshnikov

Shen Shen

Man Zhang

Qi Zou

Hans Agren

Liangliang Zhu

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Abstract

It is crucial and desirable to develop green and high-efficient strategies to regulate solid-state structures and their related material properties. However, relative to solution, it is more difficult to break and generate chemical bonds in solid states. In this work, a rubbing-induced photoluminescence on the solid states of ortho-pyridinil phenol family was achieved. This rubbing response relied on an accurately designed topochemical tautomerism, where a negative charge, exactly provided by the triboelectric effect of a rubber, can induce a proton transfer in a double H-bonded dimeric structure. This process instantaneously led to a bright-form tautomer that can be stabilized in the solid-state settings, leading to an up to over 450-fold increase of the fluorescent quantum yield of the materials. The property can be repeatedly used due to the reversibility of the tautomerism, enabling encrypted applications. Moreover, a further modification to the structure can be accomplished to achieve different properties, opening up more possibilities for the design of new-generation smart materials.

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