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Cover Picture: Encapsulation of Isolated Luminophores within Supramolecular Cages (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 45/2017)
Author(s) -
Handke Marcel,
Adachi Takuji,
Hu Chunhua,
Ward Michael D.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201710174
Subject(s) - luminescence , lasing threshold , quenching (fluorescence) , materials science , molecule , supramolecular chemistry , fluorescence , solid state , photochemistry , hydrogen bond , optoelectronics , nanotechnology , chemistry , optics , organic chemistry , wavelength , physics
Organic solid‐state dye lasers promise versatility with respect to spectral tuning, but often face challenges owing to self‐quenching by aggregation. In their Communication on page 14003 ff., M. D. Ward et al. describe an approach to solid‐state lasing compounds in which isolated luminescent guest molecules, a range of well‐known laser dyes, are encapsulated in cages of a crystalline hydrogen‐bonded zeolite‐like framework. The luminescence of each compound is consistent with the absence of self‐quenching, and the emission color can be tuned from blue to red by the choice of guest molecule.