Elastic Bending Flexibility of a Fluorescent Organic
Single Crystal: New Aspects of the Commonly Used Building Block 4,7-Dibromo-2,1,3-benzothiadiazole
posted on 2017-10-19, 00:00authored byShotaro Hayashi, Toshio Koizumi, Natsumi Kamiya
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4,7-dibromo-2,1,3-benzothiadiazole can be
used as a building block for the organic synthesis of high performance
optoelectronics devices. Herein, we report that a single crystal of
4,7-dibromo-2,1,3-benzothiadiazole displays elastic bending flexibility
and crystalline-state fluorescence. A large needle-shaped single crystal
(over 1 cm long) exhibited a fibril lamella type structure based on
slip-stacked (J-aggregated) molecular wires. The
crystal was capable of bending under applied stress and quickly reverts
to its original shape upon relaxation. The crystal shows a reversible
fluorescence change via mechanical bending–relaxation that
can be performed many times.