Issue 10, 2019

Organic cation directed hybrid lead halides of zero-dimensional to two-dimensional structures with tunable photoluminescence properties

Abstract

Recently, organic–inorganic hybrid lead halides have been explored as photoluminescent (PL) materials with flexible structural tunabilities and high photoluminescence quantum efficiencies, which can be modified by the structure regulating functions of organic cations. Here, by adopting different saturated organic cations as structure directing agents (SDAs), a series of organic–inorganic hybrid lead halides have been solvothermally synthesized and characterized with different structural types. Compound [(CH3)2NH2]2[H2DABCO]2Pb3I12 (1, DABCO = 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]-octane) features a linear zero-dimensional (0D) [Pb3I12]6− trimer, and [(Me)6-en]2Pb3I10 (2) and [H2N-Prpipz]2Pb3Br10 (3) contain two different types of one-dimensional (1D) [Pb3X10]4− chains based on the C3-symterric [Pb3X11] trimer and [PbX6] unit, respectively. In the structures of H[(Me)2-DABCO]Pb3I9 (4) and H[(Me)4-pipz]Pb3I9 (5, pipz = piperazine), the C3-symmetric [Pb3I11] trimers are interlinked to form the same two-dimensional (2D) corrugated [Pb3I9]3− layers. Under the excitation of UV irradiation, these hybrid lead halides exhibit tunable luminescence properties from yellow, orange to red emissions with the largest Stokes shift of 335 nm. The PL nature is also investigated based on temperature-dependent PL emission, time-resolved PL and theoretical calculations, etc. These hybrid lead halides provide new types of structural models to probe into the PL properties and understand the underlying structure–property relationship.

Graphical abstract: Organic cation directed hybrid lead halides of zero-dimensional to two-dimensional structures with tunable photoluminescence properties

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Research Article
Submitted
10 Jun 2019
Accepted
09 Aug 2019
First published
10 Aug 2019

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 2709-2717

Organic cation directed hybrid lead halides of zero-dimensional to two-dimensional structures with tunable photoluminescence properties

C. Yue, H. Sun, Q. Liu, X. Wang, Z. Yuan, J. Wang, J. Wu, B. Hu and X. Lei, Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019, 6, 2709 DOI: 10.1039/C9QI00684B

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