In this work, two tailored luminogens (TPE-NB and TPE-PNPB) consisting of tetraphenylethene (TPE), diphenylamino, and dimesitylboryl as a π-conjugated linkage, electron donor, and electron acceptor, respectively, are synthesized and characterized. Their thermal stabilities, photophysical properties, solvachromism, fluorescence decays, electronic structures, electrochemical behaviors, and electroluminescence (EL) properties are investigated systematically, and the impacts of electron donor-acceptor (D-A) interaction on optoelectronic properties are discussed. Due to the presence of a TPE unit, both luminogens show aggregation-induced emission, but strong D-A interaction causes a decrease in emission efficiency and red-shifts in photoluminescence and EL emissions. The luminogen, TPE-PNPB, with a weak D-A interaction fluoresces strongly in solid film with a high fluorescence quantum yield of 94%. The trilayer OLED [ITO/NPB (60 nm)/TPE-PNPB (20 nm)/TPBi (40 nm)/LiF (1 nm)/Al (100 nm)] utilizing TPE-PNPB as a light emitter shows a peak luminance of 49 993 cd m(-2) and high EL efficiencies up to 15.7 cd A(-1), 12.9 lm W(-1), and 5.12%. The bilayer OLED [ITO/TPE-PNPB (80 nm)/TPBi (40 nm)/LiF (1 nm)/Al (100 nm)] adopting TPE-PNPB as a light emitter and hole transporter simultaneously affords even better EL efficiencies of 16.2 cd A(-1), 14.4 lm W(-1), and 5.35% in ambient air, revealing that TPE-PNPB is an eximious p-type light emitter.

Deciphering charge transport through multichannel pathways in single-molecule junctions is of high importance to construct nanoscale electronic devices and deepen insight into biological redox processes. Herein, we report two tailor-made folded single-molecule wires featuring intramolecular π-π stacking interactions. The scanning tunneling microscope (STM) based break-junction technique and theoretical calculations show that through-bond and through-space conjugations are integrated into one single-molecule wire, allowing for two simultaneous conducting channels in a single-molecule junction. These folded molecules with stable π-π stacking interaction offer conceptual advances in single-molecule multichannel conductance, and are perfect models for conductance studies in biological systems, organic thin films, and π-stacked columnar aggregates.

2,3,4,5‐Tetraphenylsiloles are excellent solid‐state light emitters featured aggregation‐induced emission (AIE) characteristics, but those that can efficiently function as both light‐emitting and electron‐transporting layers in one organic light‐emitting diode (OLED) are much rare. To address this issue, herein, three tailored n‐type light emitters comprised of 2,3,4,5‐tetraphenylsilole and dimesitylboryl functional groups are designed and synthesized. The new siloles are fully characterized by standard spectroscopic and crystallographic methods with satisfactory results. Their thermal stabilities, electronic structures, photophysical properties, electrochemical behaviors and applications in OLEDs are investigated. These new siloles exhibit AIE characteristics with high emission efficiencies in solid films, and possess lower LUMO energy levels than their parents, 2,3,4,5‐tetraphenylsiloles. The double‐layer OLEDs [ITO/NPB (60 nm)/silole (60 nm)/LiF (1 nm)/Al (100 nm)] fabricated by adopting the new siloles as both light emitter and electron transporter afford excellent performances, with high electroluminescence efficiencies up to 13.9 cd A–1, 4.35% and 11.6 lm W–1, which are increased greatly relative to those attained from the triple‐layer devices with an additional electron‐transporting layer. These results demonstrate effective access to n‐type solid‐state emissive materials with practical utility.