High-mobility emissive organic semiconductors integrate efficient charge transport and strong emission features. The development of these materials, which have the potential to overcome performance bottlenecks in organic electroluminescent and photoelectric conversion devices, is opening up new research directions in organic optoelectronics.
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This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (grant no. 2023YFB3609000), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant nos. 52233010, 52103245, 22021002 and 22305252), the CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research (grant no. YSBR-053), the Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS-CXXM-202012), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (grant no. 2023M733555), and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of CPSF (grant no. GZB20230771).
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Xie, Z., Liu, D., Gao, C. et al. High-mobility emissive organic semiconductors: an emerging class of multifunctional materials. Nat Rev Mater 9, 837–839 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-024-00732-8
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