IP Library Granted Patent US 12707882
Granted Patent B2
US 12707882 · App. 18/262,965 · Granted Aug 11, 2026

Quantum dot material, light-emitting device and method of manufacturing the same, and display apparatus

Inventors: Shaoyong Lu (Beijing, CN); Zhuo Chen (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
H10K85/381C09K11/025C09K11/883B82Y20/00B82Y40/00H10K50/115H10K71/12
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Patent No.
US 12707882
App. No.
18/262,965
Granted
Aug 11, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A quantum dot material includes: quantum dot bodies and a ligand material coordinated to the quantum dot bodies; the quantum dot material further includes: a cross-linking agent, the cross-linking agent includes at least two photoresponsive group and a linking group bonding the at least two photoresponsive groups. Under light illumination, each photoresponsive group in the at least two photoresponsive groups is bonded to the ligand material by a carbon-hydrogen insertion reaction to form a cross-linked ligand material; a solubility of the cross-linked ligand material in a solvent is less than a solubility of the ligand material and the cross-linking agent in the solvent.

Claims (64)

1 . A quantum dot material, comprising:

quantum dot bodies and a ligand material coordinated to the quantum dot bodies; and

a cross-linking agent, the cross-linking agent including at least two photoresponsive groups and a linking group bonding the at least two photoresponsive groups;

wherein each photoresponsive group in the at least two photoresponsive groups is bonded, under light illumination, to the ligand material by a carbon-hydrogen insertion reaction to form a cross-linked ligand material; a solubility of the cross-linked ligand material in a solvent is less than a solubility of the ligand material and the cross-linking agent in the solvent.

2 . The quantum dot material according to claim 1 , wherein a molar extinction coefficient of the cross-linking agent is greater than 1 cm −1 (mol/L) −1 under ultraviolet light with a wavelength in a range of 200 nm to 400 nm.

3 . The quantum dot material according to claim 1 , wherein the cross-linking agent is selected from any one of structures represented by a following general formula (I):

wherein L 1 is selected from any one of an amide bond, an ester bond and an ether bond;

R 1 is selected from any one of a saturated or unsaturated straight or branched chain C 1 -C 40 alkyl, C 3 -C 40 cycloalkyl, C 3 -C 40 heterocycloalkyl, C 6 -C 40 aryl, and C 6 -C 40 heteroaryl; and

a value of n is greater than or equal to 2.

4 . The quantum dot material according to claim 3 , wherein the value of n is selected from any one of 2, 3 and 4.

5 . The quantum dot material according to claim 3 , wherein a benzophenone group of the cross-linking agent represented by the general formula (I) is a photoresponsive group, and a carbonyl group of the benzophenone group is configured to be bonded, under light illumination, to the ligand material through a carbon-hydrogen insertion reaction.

6 . The quantum dot material according to claim 1 , wherein the ligand material adopts an organic ligand containing an alkyl carbon-hydrogen bond.

7 . The quantum dot material according to claim 6 , wherein the ligand material includes a coordination group and a carbon-hydrogen insertion group; the ligand material is selected from any one of structures represented by a following general formula (II):

wherein X is any one of a primary carbon group, a secondary carbon group and a tertiary carbon group, and XH is the carbon-hydrogen insertion group;

R 2 is selected from any one of a saturated or unsaturated straight or branched chain C 1 -C 40 alkyl, C 3 -C 40 cycloalkyl, C 3 -C 40 heterocycloalkyl, C 6 -C 40 aryl, and C 6 -C 40 heteroaryl;

R 3 is selected from any one of a carboxyl group containing a C 1 -C 40 carbon chain, an amino group containing a C 1 -C 40 carbon chain, a mercapto group containing a C 1 -C 40 carbon chain and an alkyl group containing a phosphorus atom; R 3 is the coordination group used to be coordinated to a quantum dot body; and

a value of a is any one of 0, 1 and 2.

8 . The quantum dot material according to claim 1 , wherein the ligand material is selected from any one of organic acids, organic amines, organic phosphorus and organic thiols.

9 . The quantum dot material according to claim 1 , wherein the quantum dot bodies includes any one of Group IIB-VIA quantum dots, Group IIIA-VA quantum dots, Group IVA-VIA quantum dots, quantum dots with a core-shell structure and perovskite quantum dots.

10 . The quantum dot material according to claim 1 , wherein

a mass ratio of the cross-linking agent to the quantum dot bodies is in a range of 0.005 to 0.5; and

a mass ratio of the cross-linking agent to the ligand material is in a range of 0.05 to 5.

11 . The quantum dot material according to claim 1 , wherein a dielectric constant of the solvent is less than 10.

12 . A quantum dot material, comprising:

quantum dot bodies and a ligand material coordinated to the quantum dot bodies; and

a cross-linking agent, the cross-linking agent including at least two photoresponsive groups and a linking group bonding the at least two photoresponsive groups; wherein

a structure of the cross-linking agent is selected from any one of structures represented by a following general formula (I);

wherein L 1 is selected from any one of an amide bond, an ester bond and an ether bond;

R 1 is selected from any one of a saturated or unsaturated straight or branched chain C 1 -C 40 alkyl, C 3 -C 40 cycloalkyl, C 3 -C 40 heterocycloalkyl, C 6 -C 40 aryl, and C 6 -C 40 heteroaryl; and

a value of n is greater than or equal to 2; and

the ligand material adopts an organic ligand containing an alkyl carbon-hydrogen bond.

13 . A light-emitting device, comprising: a light-emitting layer, wherein the light-emitting layer includes a cross-linked quantum dot material with a network structure formed by the quantum dot bodies, the ligand material, and the cross-linking agent in the quantum dot material according to claim 1 .

14 . The light-emitting device according to claim 13 , wherein the cross-linked quantum dot material is selected from any one of structures represented by a following general formula (III);

wherein L 1 is selected from any one of an amide bond, an ester bond and an ether bond;

R 1 is selected from any one of a saturated or unsaturated straight or branched chain C 1 -C 40 alkyl, C 3 -C 40 cycloalkyl, C 3 -C 40 heterocycloalkyl, C 6 -C 40 aryl, and C 6 -C 40 heteroaryl;

a value of n is greater than or equal to 2;

X is any one of a primary carbon group, a secondary carbon group and a tertiary carbon group;

R 2 is selected from any one of a saturated or unsaturated straight or branched chain C 1 -C 40 alkyl, C 3 -C 40 cycloalkyl, C 3 -C 40 heterocycloalkyl, C 6 -C 40 aryl, and C 6 -C 40 heteroaryl;

R′ 3 is a group formed after a coordinating group R 3 is coordinated to the quantum dot body, R 3 is selected from any one of a carboxyl group containing a C 1 -C 20 carbon chain, an amino group containing a C 1 -C 20 carbon chain, a mercapto group containing a C 1 -C 20 carbon chain and an alkyl group containing a phosphorus atom, and R′ 3 is selected from any one of a structure where one hydrogen is removed from a carboxyl group, an amino group, a mercapto group or an alkyl group containing a phosphorus atom in R 3 ; and

a value of a is any one of 0, 1 and 2.

15 . The light-emitting device according to claim 14 , wherein each quantum dot body in the cross-linked quantum dot material is bonded to a plurality of groups R′ 3 , and the quantum dot bodies in the cross-linked quantum dot material are bonded by the cross-linking ligand material.

16 . The light-emitting device according to claim 13 , wherein the light-emitting layer includes a first sub-pixel film layer, a second sub-pixel film layer and a third sub-pixel film layer, and the first sub-pixel film layer, the second sub-pixel film layer and the third sub-pixel film layer are sequentially arranged in a first direction; wherein the first direction is perpendicular to a plane where the light-emitting layer is located.

17 . The light-emitting device according to claim 13 , further comprising: a first electrode and a second electrode, the light-emitting layer being disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode;

an electron transporting layer, the electron transporting layer being disposed between the first electrode and the light-emitting layer; and

a hole injection layer and a hole transporting layer, the hole injection layer and the hole transporting layer are stacked between the second electrode and the light-emitting layer, and the hole injection layer and the hole transporting layer being sequentially arranged in a direction far away from the second electrode.

18 . A display apparatus, comprising the light-emitting device according to claim 13 .

19 . A method of manufacturing a light-emitting device, comprising forming a light-emitting layer;

forming the light-emitting layer includes:

performing a coating process with a quantum dot material, wherein the quantum dot material includes the quantum dot material according to claim 1 ;

performing an exposure process on the quantum dot material under ultraviolet light; and

performing a development process with a developing solution to form the light-emitting layer.

20 . The method of manufacturing the light-emitting device according to claim 19 , wherein:

the quantum dot material includes a first quantum dot material, a second quantum dot material and a third quantum dot material;

the light-emitting layer includes a first sub-pixel film layer formed by the first quantum dot material, a second sub-pixel film layer formed by the second quantum dot material, and a third sub-pixel film layer formed by the third quantum dot material;

forming the first sub-pixel film layer, the second sub-pixel film layer and the third sub-pixel film layer include:

performing a coating process with the first quantum dot material;

performing an exposure process on the first quantum dot material under ultraviolet light;

performing a development process with a developing solution to form the first sub-pixel film layer;

performing a coating process with the second quantum dot material;

performing an exposure process on the second quantum dot material under ultraviolet light;

performing a development process with a developing solution to form the second sub-pixel film layer;

performing a coating process with the third quantum dot material;

performing an exposure process on the third quantum dot material under ultraviolet light; and

performing a development process with a developing solution to form the third sub-pixel film layer to obtain the light-emitting layer.