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Chiral optofluidics: gigantic circularly polarized light enhancement of all-trans-poly(9,9-di-n-octylfluorene-2,7-vinylene) during mirror-symmetry-breaking aggregation by optically tuning fluidic media

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cris.virtual.department Universiti Malaysia Perlis
cris.virtualsource.department 9a8fe792-36c1-418a-a83d-dcbcebd3df5e
dc.contributor.author Michiya Fujiki
dc.contributor.author Jalilah Abd Jalil
dc.contributor.author Nozomu Suzuki
dc.contributor.author Makoto Taguchi
dc.contributor.author Wei, Zhang 1
dc.contributor.author Mohamed Mehawed Abdellatif
dc.contributor.author Kotohiro Nomura
dc.date.accessioned 2025-02-18T06:32:01Z
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dc.date.issued 2012
dc.description.abstract Here we report the first chiral optofluidic system that enables the emergence and enhancement of chiroptical signals of μm-sized polymer particles from achiral all-trans-poly(9,9-di-n-octylfluorene-2,7-vinylene) (PFV) during mirror-symmetry-breaking aggregation due to the optically active fluidic media consisting of (R)-limonene (1R) and (S)-limonene (1S), chloroform and methanol. These results were proven by refractive index (RI) and specific rotation (SR) of the media as well as circular dichroism (CD), optical rotatory dispersion (ORD), circular polarised luminescence (CPL), UV-vis and photoluminescence spectral characteristics of PFV. For comparison, a triple bond linker poly[(9,9-di-n-octylfluoren-2,7-diyl)-alt-yleneethynylene] (PFE) aggregate, which is an analogue of PFV, did not show any CD-signals in the π–π* transition. Gaussian 03 (TD-DFT, B3LYP, 3-21G basis set) calculations of PFV and PFE trimer models suggested that PFV is CD-/CPL-silent helix due to an equal proportion of P- and M-helices in a double-well with a small barrier height, conversely, that PFE is inherently optically inactive due to non-helix conformation in a single-well. Under optimised chiral optofluid with specific RI values of 1.38–1.39, the μm-sized PFV particles showed a great enhancement in Kuhn's dissymmetry amplitudes by ∼1500 times compared to the computed value in helical models of PFV; the gCD at 473 nm reached +0.078 (1S) and −0.104 (1R), and the gCPL at 474 nm attained +0.056 (1S) and −0.077 (1R), while maintaining a high quantum yield (ΦPL) of 75–88% with a short PL lifetime of ∼0.5 ns. For comparison, as for six π-conjugated molecular aggregates with/without H–H repulsions, including trans-stilbene and diphenylacetyelene, with the help of the 1R-/1S-based media, any detectable CD signals were not observed. These results led to the idea that optically active π-conjugated polymers carrying longer alkyl side groups in a double-well potential may be needed to efficiently generate the corresponding optically active aggregates in the chiral tersolvents.
dc.identifier.doi 10.1039/C2RA20430D
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14170/13657
dc.language.iso en
dc.relation.ispartof RSC Advances
dc.relation.issn 2046-2069
dc.subject Agglomeration
dc.subject Chiral optofluidic
dc.subject Circularly polarized light
dc.title Chiral optofluidics: gigantic circularly polarized light enhancement of all-trans-poly(9,9-di-n-octylfluorene-2,7-vinylene) during mirror-symmetry-breaking aggregation by optically tuning fluidic media
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oaire.citation.issue 16
oaire.citation.startPage 6663
oaire.citation.volume 2
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