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Research Highlights

Concise, expert reviews of the latest advances in OLED and MR-TADF emitter materials, with the key results, the takeaway, and the materials to build on each study.

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August 18 to 21, 2026 · BEXCO, Busan
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August 18 to 21, 2026 · BEXCO, Busan
K-Display 2026

LG Display at K-Display 2026: Why the fourth generation tandem OLED, 540 Hz gaming and LTPO are one materials

July 22 to 24, 2026 · COEX, Seoul
K-Display 2026

Samsung Display at K-Display 2026: A materials view of Privacy OLED, QD-OLED, AI edge devices and the Digital Cockp

July 22 to 24, 2026 · COEX, Seoul
CHEM. MATER.

Rigid 3D Pt(II) Phosphors Deliver 19 nm Blue OLED Emission and 36.5% Maximum EQE

October 14, 2026
ANGEW. CHEM. INT. ED.

One-Pot Benzofuran Building Blocks Enable Narrowband Blue-Cyan OLEDs with EQE Approaching 30%

October 10, 2026
CHEM. ENG. J.

Triptycene Placement Tunes Blue Pt(II) Phosphors and Enables 28.8% EQE Sensitized OLEDs

October 7, 2026
ANGEW. CHEM. INT. ED.

Pyridinic Nitrogen Activates TADF in Tetraboron PAHs for Record-Narrow Violet OLED Emission

October 3, 2026
ADV. FUNCT. MATER.

3D Tetradentate Pt(II) Emitters Deliver Deep-Blue OLEDs Approaching BT.2020 with a Blue Index of 464

September 30, 2026
ANGEW. CHEM. INT. ED.

Thiophene Geometry Engineering Delivers Sub-10 nm Blue MR-TADF OLED Emission

September 25, 2026
ANGEW. CHEM. INT. ED.

Central Chirality-Induced Helical Pt(II) Emitters Deliver Narrow Deep-Blue CP-PhOLEDs Without Chiral HPLC Resolution

September 22, 2026
NAT. COMMUN.

t-Butyl Ligand Engineering Suppresses MMLCT and Extends Blue Pt(II) OLED Lifetime by 8.5×

September 19, 2026
ADVANCED MATERIALS

Azepine-Decorated ν-DABNA Delivers Deep-Blue OLEDs with CIEy = 0.060, ≈30% EQE, and up to 300 h LT50

September 16, 2026
LIGHT SCI. APPL.

CF₃-Engineered Iridium(III) Complexes Enable Efficient and Long-Lived Deep-Blue OLEDs

September 12, 2026
NATURE PHOTONICS

Twisted, Quadruple-Borylated MR-TADF Achieves a 12 nm Deep-Blue Band and 74.5% Tandem OLED EQE

September 9, 2026
NATURE PHOTONICS

A Rigid 3D Platinum(II) Emitter Enables Deep-Blue OLEDs with 13.1 nm Bandwidth and 670 h Half-Life

September 4, 2026
ANGEW. CHEM. INT. ED.

Precise MR-Region Engineering Delivers Near-BT.2020 Green OLEDs with 16 nm EL Bandwidth

September 2, 2026
ADVANCED MATERIALS

Triboron MR-TADF Emitter with Zigzag B-N Alignment Delivers Near-Degenerate Excited States and 38% EQE

August 29, 2026
ADV. FUNCT. MATER.

Adamantyl-Spaced Tetradentate Pt(II) Complexes Enable Highly Efficient Deep-Blue Phosphorescent OLEDs

August 26, 2026
ADVANCED MATERIALS

Nanosecond-Lifetime Blue TADF with Suppressed Concentration Quenching for High-Performance OLEDs

August 22, 2026
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.

One-Shot Synthesis of Symmetric and Asymmetric Expanded Heterohelicenes for Narrowband Deep-Blue OLEDs

August 15, 2026
Adv. Opt. Mater.

Molecular Engineering of a Tetradentate Pt(II) Emitter Enables Deep-Blue PhOLEDs with Record-Low Efficiency Roll-Off

August 12, 2026
Advanced Materials

Wide-Range Blue-to-Red Color Tuning of Iridium Biscarbene Phosphors Through N^N Ligand Engineering

August 8, 2026
INFOGRAPHIC PENDING
Adv. Opt. Mater.

Benzo[b]Thiophene Low-T₁ Multi-Resonance Emitter with Suppressed TADF for Extended Blue OLED Lifetime

August 5, 2026
Adv. Opt. Mater.

Highly Efficient and Stable Narrow-Band Platinum Phosphorescent Emitters for OLEDs

July 31, 2026
Advanced Science

Spin-Flip-Restricted ICz-Based Multiple-Resonance Blue Emitters for Extended OLED Lifetime

July 29, 2026
Adv. Funct. Mater.

High-Efficiency Deep-Blue PhOLEDs Using a High-Triplet-Energy Bipolar Host m-CBPPO

July 24, 2026
Nat. Commun.

Horizontally Oriented MRCT-Type TADF Emitters Achieving >40% EQE in Sky-Blue OLEDs

July 22, 2026
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.

Tetraborylated B–O Bond-Embedded MR-TADF Emitter for Ultra-Narrowband High-Efficiency Blue OLEDs

July 18, 2026
Nature Photonics

Deuterated OLED Materials: Isotope Engineering for Efficiency, Lifetime, and Stability

July 15, 2026
Chem. Eng. J.

BpICCz: Rigid Indolocarbazole Pure-Green MR-TADF

July 11, 2026
Science Advances

ML-Driven Design of Deep-Blue nu-DABNA-O-xy

July 8, 2026
Advanced Materials

A Single-Layer OLED That Beats Multilayer Efficiency

July 4, 2026
Nature Communications

DBADTMCz: Quadrupolar D-A-D Sensitizer for Pure-Blue Hyperfluorescence

July 1, 2026
Adv. Funct. Mater.

m-Indolocarbazole: A Universal Host for RGB and White

June 27, 2026
Nature Communications

BT.2020 Green via Multiple Resonance and Multi-Lock Design

June 24, 2026
Adv. Funct. Mater.

Steric-Rooted MR-TADF with Ultralow Efficiency Roll-Off

June 20, 2026
Chem. Eng. J.

Beating the Exciplex Reference on Efficiency and Stability

June 17, 2026
J. Am. Chem. Soc.

BBCz: One Family, Full-Color Narrowband Electroluminescence

June 13, 2026
Nature Photonics

nu-DABNA: A Record Narrowband Deep-Blue Emitter

June 10, 2026
Advanced Materials

DABNA: The Landmark That Redefined Blue Emitter Design

June 6, 2026
Chem. Eng. J.

DTTrzDFph: A Green Phosphor-Sensitized-Fluorescence Emitter

June 3, 2026
Advanced Materials

Twisted B-N-B MR-TADF with Sub-10 nm Emission

May 30, 2026
J. Am. Chem. Soc.

A Monoborylated Ultranarrowband Red MR-TADF Emitter

May 27, 2026
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.

Chiral TSCT CP-TADF for Circularly Polarized OLEDs

May 23, 2026
J. Am. Chem. Soc.

1,2-BN Heteroarenes for Stable Narrowband OLEDs

May 21, 2026
Small

BOID-Cz-Si: Oxygen-Bridged Boron Emitters for Pure Violet

May 13, 2026
Small

Rigid-Core Design for Color-Pure Sky-Blue MR-TADF

May 9, 2026
Advanced Materials

DBN-MS: Spiro-Fluorene-Locked Pure-Green MR-TADF

May 6, 2026
Advanced Materials

Rationally Designed Ultra-Green MR Emitters at 42% EQE

May 2, 2026
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.

CBD-DABNA: Antiaromatic Perturbation for Red MR-TADF

April 29, 2026
Advanced Materials

Tetraphenylsilane-Engineered Pure-Green MR-TADF Emitters

April 26, 2026
Advanced Materials

CBN Skeleton Engineering for High-Color-Purity Blue OLEDs

April 22, 2026
J. Am. Chem. Soc.

EnBOBO: Macrocyclic Encapsulation of a Multi-Resonance Emitter

April 19, 2026
ACS Energy Letters

44.3% EQE Deep-Blue Hyperfluorescent OLEDs

April 15, 2026
Advanced Optical Materials

DC-TRZ: Efficient Deep-Blue Circularly Polarized OLEDs

April 10, 2026
Advanced Materials

A 3D “Sandwich” for Stable, Narrowband Blue MR-TADF OLEDs

April 7, 2026
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