Abstract
Flexible organic crystals, capable of transmitting light and responding to various external stimuli, are emerging as a new frontier in optoelectronic materials. They hold immense potential for applications in molecular machines, sensors, displays, and intelligent devices. Here, we report on flexible organic crystals based on single-component enantiomeric organic compounds, demonstrating multi-stimuli-responsive circularly polarized light (CPL). These crystals exhibit remarkable elasticity, responsiveness to light and acid vapors, and tunable circularly polarized optical signals. Upon exposure to acid vapors, the fluorescence of the crystals shifts from initial yellow emission to green emission, attributable to the protonation-induced inhibition of excited-state intramolecular proton transfer. Under UV irradiation, the fluorescence emission undergoes a red-shift, resulting from the molecular transformation from an enol configuration to a ketone configuration. Notably, both processes are reversible and can be restored under daylight. The integration of reversible fluorescence changes under light and acid vapors stimuli, CPL signals, and flexible optical waveguides within a single crystal paves the way for the application of organic crystals as all-organic chiral functional materials.
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