Title: Stimuli Responsive Organic Functional Materials
In the current times, the organic luminogens continue to attract a considerable interest owing to their high-tech applications in the fabrication of new optoelectronic devices such as fluorescent sensors, organic light emitting field-effect transistors (OLEFETs), solid-state lasers, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) etc. The solid-state emitters become more attractive for applications if they can tune their emission characteristics under the influence of external stimuli such as mechanical force, heat, acid/base etc Consequently, the stimuliresponsive emission characteristics of the solid-state emitters have evoked a growing interest among the scientific community in the development of functional materials that can modulate their chemical or physical structures under the influence of an external stimulus, and exhibit tuneable emission properties. In continuation our interest in the organic functional materials, recently our research group has synthesised an imidazole based molecular probe Ph-ISO, a solid state emitter, by modifying the molecular structure of the fluorophore core. In this presentation salient features of our findings will be discussed.
