Purely Organic Materials with Aggregation‐Induced Delayed Fluorescence for Efficient Nondoped OLEDs

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Benzoylpyridine-based TADF emitters with AIE feature for efficient non-doped OLEDs by both evaporation and solution process

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Quinoline-based TADF emitters exhibiting aggregation-induced emission for efficient non-doped organic light-emitting diodes

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Efficient Sky‐Blue Bipolar Delayed Fluorescence Luminogen for High‐Performance Single Emissive Layer WOLEDs

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Realizing Record‐High Electroluminescence Efficiency of 31.5 % for Red Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Molecules

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Aggregation‐Induced Delayed Fluorescence

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Finding the optimal exchange–correlation functional to describe the excited state properties of push–pull organic dyes designed for thermally activated delayed fluorescence

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Manipulating the positions of CH⋯N in acceptors of pyrimidine–pyridine hybrids for highly efficient sky-blue thermally activated delayed fluorescent OLEDs

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Photophysics of 9,9‐Dimethylacridan‐Substituted Phenylstyrylpyrimidines Exhibiting Long‐Lived Intramolecular Charge‐Transfer Fluorescence and Aggregation‐Induced Emission Characteristics

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Design of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials: Transition from Carbonyl to Amide‐Based Acceptor

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High‐Performance White Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes with High Efficiency, Low Efficiency Roll‐Off, and Superior Color Stability/Color Rendering Index by Strategic Design of Exciplex Hosts

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Efficient Blue Carbonyl‐Nitrogen Multi‐Resonance Molecules for High‐Performance Hyperfluorescence OLEDs

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Naphthyridine-based thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters for highly efficient blue OLEDs

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Efficient bipolar AIE emitters for high-performance nondoped OLEDs

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A Conjugated Carboranyl Main Chain Polymer with Aggregation-Induced Emission in the Near-Infrared

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Fusing acridine and benzofuran/benzothiophene as a novel hybrid donor for high-performance and low efficiency roll-off TADF OLEDs

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Comparative study of multi-functional luminogens with 1,3,5-triazine as the core and phenothiazine or phenoxy donors as the peripheral moieties for non-doped/doped fluorescent and red phosphorescent OLEDs

Tan, X., Wang, P., Lu, L., Bezvikonnyi, O., Volyniuk, D. Y., Gražulevičius, J. V., & Zhao, Q. (2019) · Dyes and Pigments · doi:10.1016/j.dyepig.2019.107793 · Cited by 25

Efficient aggregation-induced delayed fluorescent materials based on bipolar carrier transport materials for the fabrication of high-performance nondoped OLEDs with very small efficiency roll-off

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Multifunctional derivatives of pyrimidine-5-carbonitrile and differently substituted carbazoles for doping-free sky-blue OLEDs and luminescent sensors of oxygen

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Enabling red thermally activated delayed fluorescence by increasing the push–pull strength in naphthalimide-phenothiazine derivatives

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High efficiency color-tunable organic light-emitting diodes with ultra-thin emissive layers in blue phosphor doped exciplex

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Highly Efficient Nondoped OLEDs with Negligible Efficiency Roll‐Off Fabricated from Aggregation‐Induced Delayed Fluorescence Luminogens

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Aggregation-induced delayed fluorescence

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Thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials for nondoped organic light‐emitting diodes with nearly 100% exciton harvest

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Aggregation-Induced Delayed Fluorescence Luminogens for High-Performances OLEDs

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Achieving High‐Performance Nondoped OLEDs with Extremely Small Efficiency Roll‐Off by Combining Aggregation‐Induced Emission and Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence

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