Journal article
Authors list: Haust, Johannes; Belz, Juergen; Mueller, Marius; Klee, Benjamin Danilo; Vasco, Jonathan Link; Hueppe, Franziska; Leon, Iran Rojas; Christmann, Jan; Beyer, Andreas; Dehnen, Stefanie; Rosemann, Nils W.; Pilgrim, Wolf-Christian; Chatterjee, Sangam; Volz, Kerstin
Publication year: 2022
Journal: ChemPhotoChem
Volume number: 6
Issue number: 6
ISSN: 2367-0932
Open access status: Hybrid
DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.202200071
Publisher: Wiley
Abstract:
Amorphous materials are an integral part of today's technology-they commonly are performant and versatile in integration. Consequently, future applications increasingly aim to harvest the potential of the amorphous state. Establishing its structure-property relationship, however, is inherently challenging using diffraction-based techniques yet is extremely desirable for developing advanced functionalities. In this article, we introduce a set of transmission electron microscopy-based techniques to locally quantify the structure of a material. This unique approach allows to clearly identify the spatial distribution of amorphous and crystalline regions and to quantify atomic arrangements of amorphous regions of a representative model system. We study an ensemble of well-defined, functionalized adamantane-type cluster molecules exhibiting exceptionally promising nonlinear optical properties of unclear origin. The nanoscopic structure for three model compounds ([(PhSn)(4)S-6], [(NpSn)(4)S-6], [(CpSn)(4)S-6]) correlates with their characteristic optical responses. These results highlight the advantageous properties of amorphous molecular materials when understanding the microscopic origin.
Citation Styles
Harvard Citation style: Haust, J., Belz, J., Mueller, M., Klee, B., Vasco, J., Hueppe, F., et al. (2022) White Light Generating Molecular Materials: Correlation Between the Amorphous/Crystalline Structure and Nonlinear Optical Properties, ChemPhotoChem, 6(6), Article e202200071. https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.202200071
APA Citation style: Haust, J., Belz, J., Mueller, M., Klee, B., Vasco, J., Hueppe, F., Leon, I., Christmann, J., Beyer, A., Dehnen, S., Rosemann, N., Pilgrim, W., Chatterjee, S., & Volz, K. (2022). White Light Generating Molecular Materials: Correlation Between the Amorphous/Crystalline Structure and Nonlinear Optical Properties. ChemPhotoChem. 6(6), Article e202200071. https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.202200071
Keywords
crystalline materials; electron diffraction; white light generation
