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Highly emissive tribenzotriquinacene-based double-rimed nanocube

Zhilong Jiang1,§, Zihao Wu1,§, Jun Wang1, Bangtang Chen1, Min Wang1, Weiya Liu1, Wenzhi Lv4, Rui Miao1, He Zhao2, Die Liu2, Shenghua Chen3, Mingzhao Chen1( ), Pingshan Wang1,2( )
Institute of Environmental Research at Greater Bay Area, Key Laboratory for Water Quality and Conservation of the Pearl River Delta, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China
Department of Organic and Polymer Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qiannan Normal University for Nationalities, Duyun 558000, China

§ Zhilong Jiang and Zihao Wu contributed equally to this work.

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We report the design and assembly of a giant double-rimed nanocube Zn24LH8, built with 8 tribenzotriquinacene as six-connected vertices and 24 <tpy-Zn2+-tpy> (tpy = terpyridine) connectivities serving as the edges. Zn24LH8 exhibits strong cyan light emission with a luminescence quantum yield of 37.5%, and cage-confinement induced emission enhancement (CCIEE) was attributed to this system.

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The study of discrete nanosized cages has gone a long way to seek aesthetically appealing structures and to carry out functional applications. Although the construction of supramolecular cages via a bottom-up self-assembly process has been well developed, the sophisticated synthesis still remains a challenge. Here we report the design and assembly of a giant double-rimed nanocube Zn24LH8, built with 8 tribenzotriquinacene as six-connected vertices and 24 <tpy-Zn2+-tpy> (tpy = terpyridine) connectivities serving as the edges. From the single-crystal structure of tribenzotriquinacene-based ligand LH, the bowl-shaped ligand defines a suitable rigid platform for the spatially well-defined attachment of three sets of parallel vertices, which promotes the quantitative formation of the desired three-dimensional (3D) double-rimed cubic architectures. The formed nanocube Zn24LH8 possesses molecular weight up to 25.6 kDa and side length 5.3 nm. Remarkably, the Zn24LH8 exhibits strong cyan light emission with high luminescence quantum yields in solution and in the solid state based on the inherent cage-confinement induced emission enhancement. By adding orange-emissive Rhodamine B, emission tuning experiments were achieved including white light emission. This work presents a new system for the imitation of complex assemblies and provides a promising candidate for emissive materials.

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self-assemblydouble-rimed nanocubeterpyridinecoordinationlight-emitting metallacages

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Nano Research
Volume 16 Issue 7,
July 2023
Pages 9584-9590
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-023-5607-0
Cite this article:
Jiang Z, Wu Z, Wang J, et al. Highly emissive tribenzotriquinacene-based double-rimed nanocube. Nano Research, 2023, 16(7): 9584-9590. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5607-0
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LuminescenceNanocapsules Nanospheres Self assemblyStructural design

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Received: 29 December 2022
Revised: 21 February 2023
Accepted: 22 February 2023
Published: 19 April 2023
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