Improving Electron Transportation and Operational Lifetime of Full Color Organic Light Emitting Diode Through “Weak hydrogen bonding cage” Structure

Abstract

Efficient electron-transporting materials (ETMs) are critical to achieving excellent performance of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), yet developing such materials remains a major long-term challenge, particularly ETMs with high electron mobilities (μeles). Herein, we report a short conjugated ETM molecule (PICN) with a dipolar phenanthroimidazole group, which exhibits an electron mobility of up to 2.03×10-4 cm2/(V·s). The origin of this high μele is a long-ranged, regulated special cage-like interactions with C-H···N radii, which is also favorable for the excellent efficiency stability and operational stability in OLED. It is worth noting that the green phosphorescent OLED operation half-lifetimes can reach up 630 h under unencapsulated, which is 20 times longer than the commonly used commercial ETM TPBi OLEDs.

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Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
21 Jan 2024
Accepted
19 Apr 2024
First published
25 Apr 2024
This article is Open Access

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Chem. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript

Improving Electron Transportation and Operational Lifetime of Full Color Organic Light Emitting Diode Through “Weak hydrogen bonding cage” Structure

H. Zhou, T. Li, M. Xie, Y. Zhou, Q. Sun, S. Zhang, Y. Zhang, W. Yang and S. Xue, Chem. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript , DOI: 10.1039/D4SC00496E

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