The Golden Age of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials: Design and Exploitation

John Marques Dos Santos; David Hall; Biju Basumatary; Megan Bryden; Dongyang Chen; Praveen Choudhary; Thomas Comerford; Ettore Crovini; Andrew Danos; Joydip De; Stefan Diesing; Mahni Fatahi; Máire Griffin; Abhishek Kumar Gupta; Hassan Hafeez; Lea Hämmerling; Emily Hanover; Janine Haug; Tabea Heil; Durai Karthik; Shiv Kumar; Oliver Lee; Haoyang Li; Fabien Lucas; Campbell Frank Ross Mackenzie; Aminata Mariko; Tomas Matulaitis; Francis Millward; Yoann Olivier; Quan Qi; Ifor D W Samuel; Nidhi Sharma; Changfeng Si; Leander Spierling; Pagidi Sudhakar; Dianming Sun; Eglė Tankelevičiu Tė; Michele Duarte Tonet; Jingxiang Wang; Tao Wang; Sen Wu; Yan Xu; Le Zhang; Eli Zysman-Colman

doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00755

The Golden Age of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials: Design and Exploitation

John Marques Dos Santos
, David Hall
, Biju Basumatary
, Megan Bryden
, Dongyang Chen
, Praveen Choudhary
, Thomas Comerford
, Ettore Crovini
, Andrew Danos
, Joydip De
, Stefan Diesing
, Mahni Fatahi
, Máire Griffin
, Abhishek Kumar Gupta
, Hassan Hafeez
, Lea Hämmerling
, Emily Hanover
, Janine Haug
, Tabea Heil
, Durai Karthik

Shiv Kumar, Oliver Lee, Haoyang Li, Fabien Lucas, Campbell Frank Ross Mackenzie, Aminata Mariko, Tomas Matulaitis, Francis Millward, Yoann Olivier, Quan Qi, Ifor D W Samuel, Nidhi Sharma, Changfeng Si, Leander Spierling, Pagidi Sudhakar, Dianming Sun, Eglė Tankelevičiu Tė, Michele Duarte Tonet, Jingxiang Wang, Tao Wang, Sen Wu, Yan Xu, Le Zhang, Eli Zysman-Colman

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Abstract

Since the seminal report by Adachi and co-workers in 2012, there has been a veritable explosion of interest in the design of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) compounds, particularly as emitters for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). With rapid advancements and innovation in materials design, the efficiencies of TADF OLEDs for each of the primary color points as well as for white devices now rival those of state-of-the-art phosphorescent emitters. Beyond electroluminescent devices, TADF compounds have also found increasing utility and applications in numerous related fields, from photocatalysis, to sensing, to imaging and beyond. Following from our previous review in 2017 ( Adv. Mater. 2017, 1605444), we here comprehensively document subsequent advances made in TADF materials design and their uses from 2017-2022. Correlations highlighted between structure and properties as well as detailed comparisons and analyses should assist future TADF materials development. The necessarily broadened breadth and scope of this review attests to the bustling activity in this field. We note that the rapidly expanding and accelerating research activity in TADF material development is indicative of a field that has reached adolescence, with an exciting maturity still yet to come.

Original language	English
Journal	Chemical Reviews
Early online date	12 Dec 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00755
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 12 Dec 2024

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The St Andrews team thanks EPSRC for financial support (EP/P010482/1; EP/R035164/1; EP/W015137/1; EP/X026175/1; EP/Y01037X/1; EP/L016419/1); The European Commission for support from the following Marie Curie-Sk\u0142odowska Actions (TADFLife 812872; PhotoReAct ITN 956324; TADFsolutions 101073045; THF-OLED 748430; AIE-RTP-PLED 897098; TADFNIR 891606; DR NIR TADF OLEDs 101024874; TADF DLC OLEDs 101025143); The Royal Society (SRF\\R1\\201089; NF171163); The Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2016-047; RPG-2022-032); The China Scholarship Council (201603780001; 201806890001; 201906250199; 202006250026; 202106310038); The China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2022TQ0227); The Royal Academy of Engineering (EF2122-13106); Edinburgh Instruments; Fluxim; Johnson Matthey; Scottish Enterprise; and Syngenta.

Funders	Funder number
Syngenta International
Scottish Enterprise
European Commission
China Scholarship Council	201806890001, 202006250026, 201603780001, 202106310038, 201906250199
Leverhulme Trust	RPG-2022-032, RPG-2016-047
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council	EP/Y01037X/1, EP/L016419/1, EP/W015137/1, EP/P010482/1, EP/X026175/1, EP/R035164/1
Royal Academy of Engineering	EF2122-13106
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation	2022TQ0227
Marie Curie	AIE-RTP-PLED 897098, 812872, THF-OLED 748430, 101025143, TADFNIR 891606, 101073045
Royal Society	NF171163, SRF\R1\201089

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Dos Santos, J. M., Hall, D., Basumatary, B., Bryden, M., Chen, D., Choudhary, P., Comerford, T., Crovini, E., Danos, A., De, J., Diesing, S., Fatahi, M., Griffin, M., Gupta, A. K., Hafeez, H., Hämmerling, L., Hanover, E., Haug, J., Heil, T., ... Zysman-Colman, E. (2024). The Golden Age of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials: Design and Exploitation. Chemical Reviews. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00755

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