Citation: Liangliang Chen, Han Huang, Qingqiu Zhu, Yiyun Zeng, Zhichun Shangguan, Jin Chen, Xunchang Wang, Cheng Li, Guanxin Zhang, Hongbing Fu, Deqing Zhang. Cocrystal engineering for constructing emissive ambipolar semiconductor based on diphenylanthracene and diperfluorophenylanthracene[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2026, 37(2): 111613. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2025.111613 shu

Cocrystal engineering for constructing emissive ambipolar semiconductor based on diphenylanthracene and diperfluorophenylanthracene

Liangliang Chen ^{a, *,} ,
Han Huang ^d ,
Qingqiu Zhu ^a ,
Yiyun Zeng ^a ,
Zhichun Shangguan ^{b, *,} ,
Jin Chen ^a ,
Xunchang Wang ^{a, *,} ,
Cheng Li ^c ,
Guanxin Zhang ^c ,
Hongbing Fu ^d ,
Deqing Zhang ^c

a.
Key Laboratory of Flexible Optoelectronic Materials and Technology (Ministry of Education), School of Optoelectronic Materials & Technology, Jianghan University, Wuhan 430056, China
b.
College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Wenzhou University, Key Lab of Biohealth Materials and Chemistry of Wenzhou, Wenzhou 325027, China
c.
Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
d.
Beijing Key Laboratory for Optical Materials and Photonic Devices, Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China

chenliangliang@jhun.edu.cn

sgzc@live.cn

wangxc@jhun.edu.cn

Received Date: 10 April 2025
Revised Date: 14 July 2025
Accepted Date: 18 July 2025
Available Online: 20 July 2025

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Organic ambipolar emitting materials hold immense potential for application in integrated optoelectrical devices yet challenging to design and synthesize. Cocrystals exhibit significant superiority in designing such materials because the properties of emission and transport can be flexibly tailored through the strategic pairing of donor and acceptor units. In this study, we report a new cocrystal system, DPA-5FDPA, derived from two high-mobility emissive molecules, 2,6-diphenylanthracene (DPA) and 2,6-diperfluorophenyl anthracene (5FDPA). This cocrystal system exhibits outstanding emission and ambipolar semiconducting properties. Notably, the single-crystal field-effect transistor devices based on DPA-5FDPA achieve maximum hole and electron mobilities of 0.298 cm² V^-1 s^-1 and 0.009 cm² V^-1 s^-1, respectively. In comparison, the reference compound of 2-perfluorophenyl-6-phenylanthracene (5FBA) exhibits unipolar p-type transport with the hole mobility of 0.008 cm² V^-1 s^-1. In addition, DPA-5FDPA exhibits excellent optical waveguide behavior with a small optical loss coefficient of 0.079 dB/µm at 508 nm, which is lower than most reported cocrystal systems. These results underscore the promise of co-crystallization as a versatile strategy for developing advanced ambipolar emissive semiconductors and provide deeper insights into the relationships among molecular structures, packing modes, intermolecular interactions, and charge-transport properties.
- Charge-transfer complex,
- Organic field-effect transistor,
- Ambipolar charge transport,
- Fluorescent emission
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