Owing to their rich porosity and structural diversity, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) offer substantial advantages over other emission sources for the precise design and color regulation of white-light phosphors. However, achieving efficient white-light emission remains a considerable challenge. Herein, we report a strategy to achieve tunable and efficient white-light emission by regulating energy transfer in a multicomponent dye-loaded MOF. An anionic MOF NKU-114 featuring appropriate confined spaces is designed as a host to deliberately encapsulate three red-, green-, and blue-emissive dyes with adaptive spectral overlap, DSM, AF, and 9-AA, respectively, yielding the NKU-114@dyes composites. Integrating the suitable spectral overlap and efficient energy transfer between the dyes and the framework produced a white-light emission material containing the multicomponent dyes NKU-114@DSM/AF/9-AA. The obtained material has a broadband white emission with a high quantum yield (up to 42.07%) and nearly identical CIE coordinates of (0.34, 0.32), and the moderate correlated color temperature and color-rendering index value can reach up to 5101 K and 81, respectively, suggesting the potential of the multicomponent dye-loaded MOF for white-light-emitting phosphors with good color quality.
Keywords: color tunability; dye encapsulation; energy transfer; metal−organic framework; white-light emission.