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Hyperfluorescent guest@TADF-MOF Materials for the 5th Generation of OLEDs

Project description

Hyperfluorescence leveraging MOFs supports the next generation of OLEDs

The global market for organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) is growing rapidly and technology has evolved to the current fourth generation based on hyperfluorescence (HF). However, these HF-OLEDs are facing challenges due to molecular aggregation and energy transfer efficiency related to the materials used. The ERC-funded HyperFMOF project aims to leverage metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as innovative platforms enabling the development of new HF materials that overcome these two challenges and lead to more efficient OLEDs. The project will synthesise and characterise the required materials and use them to produce novel MOFs that will then be integrated as emissive layers in innovative high-performance OLEDs.

Objective

Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) are among the most efficient optoelectronic devices for multiple displays and illumination technologies. Their superior performance over conventional sources has boosted this discipline, reaching to what is considered as the 4th generation of OLEDs. These OLEDs are based on a novel concept known as hyperfluorescence (HF), in which a thermally activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) material acts as sensitizer of a narrow-band fluorescent emitter via Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET). However, HF-OLEDs still present intrinsic limitations mostly related to molecular aggregation of TADF compounds, and the FRET efficiency.
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are excellent platforms for developing novel HF materials to be used in the fabrication of more efficient OLEDs. Their ordered structure, joint with the possibility of using TADF molecules as organic linkers, will minimize the issues associated with molecular aggregation, while enhancing the TADF mechanism by reducing molecular motions. Moreover, their porous structure allows for the encapsulation of narrow-band emitters (HF guest@TADF-MOFs), shortening the distances between the donor (TADF-MOF) and the acceptor (narrow-band emitter), and thus, increasing the FRET efficiency.
HyperFMOF intends to fabricate and fully characterize novel HF guest@TADF-MOFs, which will be subsequently integrated as emissive layers of high-performance OLEDs.
This project is multidisciplinary and highly ambitious, and the overall aim will be achieved by: the synthesis and characterization of unexplored TADF linkers, TADF-MOFs and HF guest@TADF-MOFs; the in-depth investigation of their spectroscopic and photodynamics properties; and the manufacturing, characterization and optimization of novel HF guest@TADF OLEDs.
HyperFMOF will open new avenues in different research areas from synthesis to spectroscopy and OLED technology, and will overcome the limitations of preceding OLED generations.

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Host institution

UNIVERSIDAD DE CASTILLA - LA MANCHA
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€ 1 614 000,00
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CALLE ALTAGRACIA 50
13071 Ciudad Real
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Region
Centro (ES) Castilla-La Mancha Ciudad Real
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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€ 1 614 000,00

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