M2 加藤裕貴君（Mr. Yuki Kato）と笹部久宏准教授の金属配位により白色発光を示す水色TADF材料に関する「A sky blue thermally activated delayed fluorescent emitter to achieve efficient white light emission through in situ metal complex formation」と題する論文が英国化学会（Royal Society of Chemistry）の J Mater Chem C (IF: 5.976) に掲載され、Inside Cover に選出！加藤、おめでとう！加藤くんデザインのカバーを見てやって下さい。
Title: A sky blue thermally activated delayed fluorescent emitter to achieve efficient white light emission through in situ metal complex formation
By Y. Kato, H. Sasabe*, Y. Hayasaka, Y. Watanabe, H. Arai, J. Kido*, J. Mater. Chem. C 2019, 7, 3146.
Abstract: We developed two types of 2,6-pyrazine-based sky blue-to-green thermally activated delyaed fluorescent (TADF) emitters, of which the green emitter helped realize high-performance organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) with an external quantum efficiency (EQE) of over 20%, whereas the sky-blue emitter outperformed conventional fluorescent emitters with an EQE of over 10%. Moreover, this sky-blue emitter was able to form an in situ metal complex in the form of CuI(I) and it exhibited efficient white light emission with EQEmax of 11%. To our best knowledge, this is the first report on TADF emitters realizing the in situ formation of a metal complex.
