Polymers; Light emitting devices; Organometallic complexes; Luminescence
Suter Dominik, van Summeren Luuk T. C. G., Blacque Olivier, Venkatesan Koushik (2018), Highly Stable and Strongly Emitting N -Heterocyclic Carbene Platinum(II) Biaryl Complexes, in
Inorganic Chemistry, 57(14), 8160-8168.
von Arx Tobias, Szentkuti Alexander, Zehnder Thomas N., Blacque Olivier, Venkatesan Koushik (2017), Stable N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) cyclometalated (C^C) gold( iii ) complexes as blue–blue green phosphorescence emitters, in
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 5(15), 3765-3769.
von Arx Tobias, Szentkuti Alexander, Zehnder Thomas N., Blacque Olivier, Venkatesan Koushik (2017), Stable N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) cyclometalated (C^C) gold( iii ) complexes as blue–blue green phosphorescence emitters, in
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 5(15), 3765-3769.
Bachmann Michael, Suter Dominik, Blacque Olivier, Venkatesan Koushik (2016), Tunable and Efficient White Light Phosphorescent Emission Based on Single Component N-Heterocyclic Carbene Platinum(II) Complexes, in
Inorganic Chemistry, 55(10), 4733-4745.
Szentkuti Alexander, Garg Jai Anand, Blacque Olivier, Venkatesan Koushik (2015), Monocyclometalated Gold(III) Complexes Bearing π-Accepting Cyanide Ligands: Syntheses, Structural, Photophysical, and Electrochemical Investigations, in
Inorganic Chemistry, 54(22), 10748-10760.
Bachmann Michael, Blacque Olivier, Venkatesan Koushik (2015), Stable and color tunable emission properties based on non-cyclometalated gold( iii ) complexes, in
Dalton Transactions, 44(21), 10003-10013.
Light emitting materials based on heavy metal containing organometallic complexes and polymers play a crucial role in applications that involve different fields of technology such as organic light emitting diodes, (OLED), photovoltaic devices, chemical sensors etc. The long-lived (phosphorescence) nature of the emission from the organometallic complexes theoretically allow for 100% harvesting of the excitons. However, several challenging issues remain in regard to their widespread applications such as light emitting efficiencies particularly in the deep blue/blue and near infrared region (NIR), thermal stability for thermal evaporation, solubility in common organic solvents for processability, and device stability during long operational times. Within this framework of the project, various different conceptual approaches are proposed that will be undertaken to the design of novel organometallic complexes and conjugated metallopolymers that are aimed at solving some of these drawbacks. In particular, highly efficient emission properties in the deep blue and near infrared (NIR) range of the electromagnetic spectrum based on small molecule gold(III) and platinum(II) complexes and also conjugated polymers containing gold(I) and platinum(II) moiety will be targeted. The uniquely tailored ligand environments of these metal centers is expected to help to stabilize these resulting complexes in the desired oxidation states and also allow to obtain efficient emission at the desired energies. Several approaches here in proposed will be employed to facilitate significant improvements in luminescence efficiencies along with enabling long-term thermal and photostability for these classes of materials. The specific conception of the various molecular scaffolds are targeted to serve as good model compounds (small molecules) that would favor the immediate generation of polymers with little structural modification. Such an approach provides an added advantage in order to draw close correlation of the observed luminescent properties between the model compounds (small molecules) and the polymers. The research project places a strong emphasis to expand the investigations into the development of new synthetic methodologies, which is a key requirement for preparing the targeted materials with unique structural features that eventually have the desired properties. Extensive photophysical characterization will be carried out to examine the influence arising from the different structural modifications on the properties. Theoretical calculations to gain deep insights into the photophysical behavior and detailed testing and evaluation of the materials in a device (OLED) environment will be pursued. The combination of these different platforms is expected to allow the build-up of several unique classes of light emitting materials suitable for the targeted application and beyond.