One-dimensional organic metal halide nanoribbons with dual emission

Sujin Lee; Rijan Karkee; Azza Ben-Akacha; Derek Luong; J S Raaj Vellore Winfred; Xinsong Lin; David A Strubbe; Biwu Ma

doi:10.1039/d3cc00044c

One-dimensional organic metal halide nanoribbons with dual emission

Chem Commun (Camb). 2023 Mar 23;59(25):3711-3714. doi: 10.1039/d3cc00044c.

Authors

Sujin Lee¹, Rijan Karkee², Azza Ben-Akacha¹, Derek Luong³, J S Raaj Vellore Winfred¹, Xinsong Lin¹, David A Strubbe², Biwu Ma¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 32306, USA. bma@fsu.edu.
² Department of Physics, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, 95343, USA. dstrubbe@ucmerced.edu.
³ Department of Biology Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 32306, USA.

PMID: 36896804
DOI: 10.1039/d3cc00044c

Abstract

Organic metal halide hybrids with low-dimensional structures at the molecular level have received great attention recently for their exceptional structural tunability and unique photophysical properties. Here we report for the first time the synthesis and characterization of a one-dimensional (1D) organic metal halide hybrid, which contains metal halide nanoribbons with a width of three octahedral units. It is found that this material with a chemical formula C₈H₂₈N₅Pb₃Cl₁₁ shows a dual emission with a photoluminescence quantum efficiency (PLQE) of around 25%. Photophysical studies and density functional theory (DFT) calculations suggest the coexisting of delocalized free excitons and localized self-trapped excitons in metal halide nanoribbons leading to the dual emission.