Pyrene-based hyperbranched porous polymers with doped Ir(piq)₂(acac) red emitter for highly efficient white polymer light-emitting diodes

Here, we designed and prepared a series of hyperbranched porous polymers constructed using fluorene branches and pyrene core, and all hyperbranched porous polymers exhibit intense blue fluorescence, good morphological stability, and high thermal stability. Further, it is found that the aperture sizes for hyperbranched porous polymers can be adjusted by simply changing the content of pyrene and fluorene in the synthesis process. When the feed ratios of pyrene in the total polymers is 15 mol%, the optimized aperture size was obtained, which is slightly larger than the maxlength of complementary red emitter Bis(1-phenylisoquinoline)(acetylacetonate)iridium (III) (Ir(piq)₂acac), indicating the Ir(piq)₂acac can well distributed in the apertures of hyperbranched porous polymers in co-doped film of Ir(piq)₂acac and hyperbranched porous polymers. The fabricated polymer-light-emitting diode (PLED) with such co-doped film as light-emitting layer realizes good white emission with almost equal blue and red emission intensity from hyperbranched porous polymers and Ir(piq)₂acac. The balanced electroluminescent (EL) spectra contribute to ideal Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) coordinate of (0.326, 0.374) located at white light zone. In addition, the device also achieves high device performance with maximum luminance and current efficiency reaching 5369 cd/m² and 8.35 cd/A, respectively. We believe that such porous-structure polymers have huge potential applications in the development of highly efficient white PLEDs with reducing production cost.