Zhen-Dong Xue,Yi Zhang,Hao-Yu Zhu,Juan-Juan Shao,Qiang Gao,Fang-Ming Wang
Herein, four new cuprous iodide hybrid materials 1–4 were synthesized at room temperature using two types of ligands: imidazoles and triphenylphosphine. Photoluminescence results showed that all the materials exhibited blue emissions with high internal quantum yields (IQYs) ranging from 51% to 64%. Surprisingly, the introduction of triphenylphosphine induced strong aggregation-induced emission (AIE). Additionally, the luminescence lifetimes of these materials were significantly longer, ranging from 11.53 μs to 24.33 μs, which is much longer than those of previous materials. These findings suggest that these materials could be potential candidates for non-rare earth element (REE) lighting phosphors.
By using pyrazine derivatives, three different types of copper(I) iodide based inorganic–organic hybrid structures, 1D-CuI(2-mo-pz) (1, 2-mo-pz = 2-methoxy-pyrazine), 2D-CuI(2,3-dm-pz)0.5 (2, 2,3-dm-pz = 2,3-dimethyl-pyrazine), and 2D-Cu2I2(2,5-dm-pz)2 (3, 2,5-dm-pz = 2,5-dimethyl-pyrazine), have been obtained by using a slow-diffusion method. Single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction analyses reveal that these hybrid structures are a one-dimensional (1D) staircase chain based structure, two-dimensional (2D) staircase-chain based structure, and 2D rhomboid dimer based structure, respectively. All of the three compounds show photoluminescence, with the internal quantum yield (IQY) as high as 88.2% for 1. This work provides evidence that for this type of hybrid materials, the structure of the inorganic module could be determined by the selection of the organic ligands and that the substituted group on the organic ligands can influence the luminescence efficiency of the hybrid structures.