Organic room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)materials have garnered considerable attention in the fields of biosensing,optoelectronic devices,and anticounterfeiting because of their substantial Stokes shifts,tunable ...Organic room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)materials have garnered considerable attention in the fields of biosensing,optoelectronic devices,and anticounterfeiting because of their substantial Stokes shifts,tunable emission wavelengths,and prolonged lifetimes.These materials offer remarkable advantages for biological imaging applications by effectively reducing environmental autofluorescence and enhancing imaging resolution.Recently,host-guest systems have been employed as efficient approaches to fabricate pure-organic RTP materials for bioimaging,providing benefits such as controllable preparation and flexible modulation.Consequently,an increasing number of corresponding studies are being reported;however,a comprehensive systematic review is still lacking.Therefore,we summarize recent advances in the development of pureorganic RTP materials using host-guest systems with regard to bioimaging,including rigid matrices and sensitization.The challenge and potential of RTP for biological imaging are also proposed to promote the biomedical applications of organic RTP materials with excellent optical properties.展开更多
Amber can emit room temperature phosphorescence(RTP)under the well-known 365 nm fluorescence ultraviolet light.This paper is devoted to the phosphorescence study of 20 pieces of amber materials from the Dominican Repu...Amber can emit room temperature phosphorescence(RTP)under the well-known 365 nm fluorescence ultraviolet light.This paper is devoted to the phosphorescence study of 20 pieces of amber materials from the Dominican Republic,Mexico,Baltic sea,Myanmar,and Fushun,China.The results show that amber from the same geographic origin has similar shape in phosphorescence spectra.However,the shape of the amber phosphorescence spectra varies depending on their different localities.Burmite(amber from Myanmar)and Fushun amber have a bright yellow phosphorescence with a long lifetime,while the Dominican and Mexican ones are weaker and last shorter.The irradiation of Baltic amber becomes faint or even inert.Phosphorescence spectral Gaussian fitting results suggest an emission maximum near 550 nm in most amber samples.Their phosphorescence lifetime,analyzed through the exponential function fitting,is up to 1 second in Burmite and Fushun samples,shorter in the Dominican and Mexican ones,about 0.230 s,and the shortest in Baltic amber,close to 0.151 s.These variations of phosphorescence lifetime and intensity are related to the relative geological ages of these amber.It indicated that the phosphorescence agent was probably formed during the long geological time.While the anomaly occurred in Baltic amber,the only one found in a sea secondary deposit form,it demonstrated that the terrestrial geological environment these amber preserved has prevented the phosphorescence agent to be deactivated.展开更多
Sdrictants(S) induced room-ternperature phorphorescence(RTP) frorn l-bromonaplithalene(l-BrN) in aerated aqueous solutions of o-cyclodextha(β-CD) hasbeco mvestigated m detail. lt has been fotmd that the partial incIu...Sdrictants(S) induced room-ternperature phorphorescence(RTP) frorn l-bromonaplithalene(l-BrN) in aerated aqueous solutions of o-cyclodextha(β-CD) hasbeco mvestigated m detail. lt has been fotmd that the partial incIu5ion and coil ofhydIocarbon chain of edctans at the mouth of the 6-CD ca\4ty' is reSPoedle foTbright RTP展开更多
We demonstrate a new green solvent consisting of ionic liquid and polyol to achieve a selective fractionation of lignin from biomass.The lignin from corn straw is rich in syringyl unit and phenolic hydroxyl group,resu...We demonstrate a new green solvent consisting of ionic liquid and polyol to achieve a selective fractionation of lignin from biomass.The lignin from corn straw is rich in syringyl unit and phenolic hydroxyl group,resulting in excellent room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)performance,antioxidation property and long-term photostability.Flexible film,fiber,aerogel and coatings with an ultralong RTP lifetime of 0.654 s are obtained.The lignin from corn straw completely blocks UV light of290–400 nm at an extremely low usage due to many p-coumarate units.When the content is as low as 1.54 mg/g,which is two orders of magnitude lower than the previous reports,the corresponding sunscreen cream has a super-high sun protection factor(SPF)of 183.9.More importantly,the lignin self-assembles into nanospheres of 250–350 nm,preventing penetration into the skin.Such easily-available,abundant,low-cost,safe and natural lignin provides an innovative avenue for sustainable optical function materials.展开更多
Organic room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)materials have attracted immense attention in bioimaging due to their long emission lifetime and large Stokes shift.RTP materials with long emission wavelength can improve ...Organic room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)materials have attracted immense attention in bioimaging due to their long emission lifetime and large Stokes shift.RTP materials with long emission wavelength can improve the penetration depth for bioimaging.However,the design of red persistent RTP materials is still challenging.In this study,a fused-ring structure has been proposed to effectively decrease the triplet energy level,thus extending the emission wavelength of phosphorescence.In addition,the fused-ring structure exhibits a high molar extinction coefficient(ɛ)and high luminescence efficiency due to the rigid structure.A new class of crystalline hosts(iminodibenzyl,IDB)are developed to stabilize the triplet excitons that are generated from the fused-ring molecules.The maximum RTP wavelength of doping materials can reach 635 nm with a lifetime of 9.35 ms.Water-disperse nanoparticles are successfully prepared for in vivo time-resolved bioimaging,which eliminates the background fluorescence interference from biological tissues.These reveal a delicate design strategy for the construction of long-wavelength emissive RTP materials for high-resolution bioimaging.展开更多
Materials with controllable luminescence colors are highly desirable for numerous promising applications, however, the preparation of such materials, particularly with color-controllable room-temperature phosphorescen...Materials with controllable luminescence colors are highly desirable for numerous promising applications, however, the preparation of such materials, particularly with color-controllable room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP), remains a formidable challenge. In this work, we reported on a facile strategy to prepare color-controllable RTP materials via the pyrolysis of a mixture containing 1-(2-hydroxyethyl)-urea(H-urea) and boric acid(BA). By controlling the pyrolysis temperatures, the as-prepared materials exhibited ultralong RTP with emission colors ranging from cyan, green, to yellow. Further studies revealed that multiple luminescent centers formed from H-urea, which were in-situ embedded in the B2O3matrix(produced from BA) during the pyrolysis process. The contents of the different luminescent centers could be regulated by the pyrolysis temperatures, resulting in color-tunable RTP. Significantly, the luminescent center engineering and in-situ immobilization strategy not only provided a facile method for conveniently preparing color-controllable RTP materials, but also endowed the materials prepared at relatively lower temperatures with color-changeable RTP features under thermal stimulus. Considering their unique properties, the potential applications of the as-obtained materials for advanced anti-counterfeiting and information encryption were preliminarily demonstrated.展开更多
Purely organic room-temperature phosphors,which have received extensive attention as emerging stateof-the-art luminescent materials in various fields,have a longer lifetime than fluorophores.The energy gap law and El-...Purely organic room-temperature phosphors,which have received extensive attention as emerging stateof-the-art luminescent materials in various fields,have a longer lifetime than fluorophores.The energy gap law and El-Sayed’s rule provide clear design principles for the development of organic room-temperature phosphorescence.Therefore,the incorporation of heteroatoms(such as sulfur and phosphorus)usually promotes the intersystem crossing rate and increases the 3(π,π*)configuration to realize long lifetimes.Furthermore,boron-containing phosphors not only display excellent phosphorescence properties but also expand El-Sayed’s rule without(n,π*)transitions.This review summarizes recent work on organic phosphorescence of heterocycles with boron,sulfur,and phosphorus heteroatoms and highlights the significance of the guidelines for constructing efficient phosphorescence molecules.This work is instrumental in further diversifying the pool of phosphorescent molecules and developing new and effective design strategies.展开更多
Room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)of purely organic materials is easily quenched with unexpected purposes because the excited triplet state is extremely susceptible to external stimuli.How to stabilize the RTP prop...Room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)of purely organic materials is easily quenched with unexpected purposes because the excited triplet state is extremely susceptible to external stimuli.How to stabilize the RTP property of purely organic luminogens is still challenging and considered as the bottleneck in the further advancement of the bottom-up approach.Here,we describe a gated strategy that can effectively harness RTP by employing complexation/dissociation with proton.Due to the order-disorder transition orientation of intermolecular packing,the RTP of organic molecules 2,4,6-tris(4′-bromo-[1,1′-biphenyl]-4-yl)-1,3,5-triazine(Br-TRZ)will easily vanish upon mechanical force.Impressively,by enhancing its intramolec-ular charge transfer effect,the protonated Br-TRZ stubbornly possesses an obvious RTP under external grinding,whatever in the ordered or disordered intermolec-ular arrangement state.Consequently,the“Lock”gate of RTP was achieved in the protonated Br-TRZ molecule.Combined with theoretical calculation analy-sis,the enhanced charge transfer effect can narrow the energy gap singlet-tripletsignificantly,and stabilize the RTP property of triazine derivative sequentially.Fur-thermore,the locked RTP can be tuned via proton and counterions repeatedly and show excellent reversibility.This gated RTP concept provides an effective strategy for stabilizing the RTP emission of purely organic systems.展开更多
Preparation of non-conjugated luminescent polymers(NCLPs)with excellent cluster luminescence(CL)performance is of great significance for scientific and industrious applications,and yet improving the performance of NCL...Preparation of non-conjugated luminescent polymers(NCLPs)with excellent cluster luminescence(CL)performance is of great significance for scientific and industrious applications,and yet improving the performance of NCLPs through proper structural design is still a huge challenge.Herein,we report a non-conjugated ionized polymeric system consisting of(−)-camphorsulfonic acid((−)-CSA)and poly(2-vinylpyridine)(P2VP).These acid-base complexes exhibit typical excitationdependent fluorescence and room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)with a lifetime up to 364 ms.We discover that changing the stereoregularity from atactic to isotactic significantly improves the CL performance of the complex.It(1)broadens the fluorescence emission spectra to cover the entire visible region,(2)enhances the fluorescence emission intensity at long wavelength beyond 500 nm,(3)enhances the phosphorescence intensity,and(4)extends the phosphorescence lifetime.Systematical experimental characterization and molecular dynamics simulation unravel the key role of stereoregularity in determining the formation of different pyridine aggregates that strongly influence the CL performance.Moreover,the different luminescence shows great potential in excitation divided information display and time-resolved encrypted display.This work not only points to a new direction for developing NCLPs with excellent performance,but also broadens the applications of NCLPs materials.展开更多
Long afterglow organic-inorganic hybrid materials have attracted much attention in recent years and are widely used in information security, biological imaging and many other fields. Since up-conversion long-persisten...Long afterglow organic-inorganic hybrid materials have attracted much attention in recent years and are widely used in information security, biological imaging and many other fields. Since up-conversion long-persistence materials are promising for bio-optical imaging due to their high penetration depth and elimination of autofluorescence background, it is highly desirable to combine down-conversion and up-conversion pathways to obtain smart materials with excitation-dependent tunable room-temperature phosphorescence properties. In this work, a metal-organic framework(Zn-DCPS-BIMB), consisting of divalent zinc ions, o-bis(imidazol-1-ylmethyl)benzene and 4,4-dicarboxydiphenylsulfone, is designed to stabilize triplet excitons, coordinate the emission of different ligands, and endow materials with tunable emission color and up-conversion properties via heavy atoms effects promoting single-triplet orbital coupling and intersystem crossing.展开更多
Room temperature phosphorescence(RTP)in metal-free organic materials has attracted considerable attention due to its rich excited state properties,high quantum efficiency,long luminescence lifetimes,etc.,showing great...Room temperature phosphorescence(RTP)in metal-free organic materials has attracted considerable attention due to its rich excited state properties,high quantum efficiency,long luminescence lifetimes,etc.,showing great potential in organic optoelectronic devices,bioimaging,information anti-counterfeiting,and so forth.The crystals have excellent rigidity and clear molecular packing patterns,which can effectively avoid non-radiative transitions of excitons for phosphorescence enhancement.In the early stages,researchers paid great attention to the regulation of RTP performance in crystalline states.However,due to the complex preparation and poor processability of crystals,amorphous materials with RTP features have become a new research topic recently.This perspective aims to summarize the recent advances of RTP materials from crystalline to amorphous states,and analyze their molecular design strategies and luminescence mechanisms in detail.Finally,we prospect the future research directions of amorphous RTP materials.This perspective will provide a guideline for the future study of advanced RTP materials.展开更多
Nano Research volume 13,pages1614–1619(2020)Cite this article 236 Accesses Metrics details Abstract Optical silicon(Si)-based materials are highly attractive due to their widespread applications ranging from electron...Nano Research volume 13,pages1614–1619(2020)Cite this article 236 Accesses Metrics details Abstract Optical silicon(Si)-based materials are highly attractive due to their widespread applications ranging from electronics to biomedicine.It is worth noting that while extensive efforts have been devoted to developing fluorescent Si-based structures,there currently exist no examples of Si-based materials featuring phosphorescence emission,severely limiting Si-based wide-ranging optical applications.To address this critical issue,we herein introduce a kind of Si-based material,in which metal-organic frameworks(MOFs)are in-situ growing on the surface of Si nanoparticles(SiNPs)assisted by microwave irradiation.Of particular significance,the resultant materials,i.e.,MOFs-encapsulated SiNPs(MOFs@SiNPs)could exhibit pH-responsive fluorescence,whose maximum emission wavelength is red-shifted from 442 to 592 nm when the pH increases from 2 to 13.More importantly,distinct room-temperature phosphorescence(maximum emission wavelength:505 nm)could be observed in this system,with long lifetime of 215 ms.Taking advantages of above-mentioned unique optical properties,the MOFs@SiNPs are further employed as high-quality anti-counterfeiting inks for advanced encryption.In comparison to conventional fluorescence anti-counterfeiting techniques(static fluorescence outputs are generally used,thus being easily duplicated and leading to counterfeiting risk),pH-responsive fluorescence and room-temperature phosphorescence of the resultant MOFs@SiNPs-based ink could offer advanced multi-modal security,which is therefore capable of realizing higher-level information security against counterfeiting.展开更多
Seeking pure organic functional luminescent materials that are processed from green, low-cost, and sustainable resources remains a challenging but beneficial task. As an abundant natural polymer composed of crosslinke...Seeking pure organic functional luminescent materials that are processed from green, low-cost, and sustainable resources remains a challenging but beneficial task. As an abundant natural polymer composed of crosslinked phenol ether units, lignin is a potential source of organic luminescent material because of the presence of extensive aromatic fragments. In the present work, a remarkable afterglow involving room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP) was achieved via simply embedding alkalized lignin into polyvinyl alcohol(PVA) matrix, and an ultralong luminescence lifetime of more than 160 ms was observed. More importantly, our study revealed that small fragments of hydrolyzed lignin(named LA-H) bearing extensive phenolic oxygen anions were the effective luminescent species. When embedded into a PVA matrix, LA-H showed remarkably high luminescence quantum yield and long lifetime of RTP emission compared with those of unprocessed lignin. Additionally, the various phenol oxygen anion moieties endowed LA-H with an excitation-dependent characteristic: the color-tunable RTP could be simply tuned from a maximum emission wavelength of 434–532 nm via altering the excitation wavelength. Thus, the color-tunable afterglow of emissive LA-H could be facilely obtained with a yield up to 38.4% using simple acid hydrolysis of lignin without other complex synthesis procedures. This work opens new avenues in the large-scale preparation of low-cost and sustainable pure organic RTP materials.展开更多
Pure organic room-temperature phosphorescent(RTP)materials have been attracting widespread attention due to the unique properties and broad applications.However,RTP materials with the adjustable photochromic property ...Pure organic room-temperature phosphorescent(RTP)materials have been attracting widespread attention due to the unique properties and broad applications.However,RTP materials with the adjustable photochromic property are still a challenge.Based on this,two polymers containing hexaarylbiimidazole are strategically designed with dual emission of both fluorescence and phosphorescence.Furthermore,both polymers show sensitive photochromic responses from faint yellow to brown upon exposure to ultraviolet light.This study can enrich pure organic luminescent systems and provide new ideas for functional RTP materials.展开更多
Comprehensive Summary Organic room-temperature phosphorescence(ORTP)materials have attracted widespread attention in the fields of OLED,optical imaging and sensors.Herein,we successfully prepared a long afterglow IPA-...Comprehensive Summary Organic room-temperature phosphorescence(ORTP)materials have attracted widespread attention in the fields of OLED,optical imaging and sensors.Herein,we successfully prepared a long afterglow IPA-MA crystalline films using/so-phthalic acid(IPA)and melamine(MA)by a simple drop-casting layer-by-layer(LBL)method,which achieved an ultra-long emission lifetime of up to 1.15 s.展开更多
Ultralong organic room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)materials have attracted tremendous attention recently due to their diverse applications.Several ultralong organic RTP materials mimicking the host-guest architec...Ultralong organic room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)materials have attracted tremendous attention recently due to their diverse applications.Several ultralong organic RTP materials mimicking the host-guest architecture of inorganic systems have been exploited successfully.However,complicated synthesis and high expenditure are still inevitable in these studies.Herein,we develop a series of novel host-guest organic phosphorescence systems,in which all luminophores are electron-rich,commercially available and halogen-atom-free.The maximum phosphorescence efficiency and the longest lifetime could reach 23.6%and 362 ms,respectively.Experimental results and theoretical calculation indicate that the host molecules not only play a vital role in providing a rigid environment to suppress non-radiative decay of the guest,but also show a synergistic effect to the guest through Förster resonance energy transfer(FRET).The commercial availability,facile preparation and unique properties also make these new host-guest materials an excellent candidate for the anti-counterfeiting application.This work will inspire researchers to develop new RTP systems with different wavelengths from commercially available luminophores.展开更多
Pure organic room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)materials have attracted wide attention owing to their excellent luminescent properties and great potential in various applications.In this work,iminostilbene and its ...Pure organic room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)materials have attracted wide attention owing to their excellent luminescent properties and great potential in various applications.In this work,iminostilbene and its analogues are applied to realize RTP emission by copolymerizing with acrylamide.It can be concluded that the growth of alkane chain in monomers can enhance the lifetime and photoluminescence quantum yield of RTP emission,and polymers with the larger conjugated structure of the monomer show a longer RTP emission wavelength.This work provides a series of new pure organic RTP materials and might provide new thoughts for designing more advanced and superior RTP materials.展开更多
Stabilizing triplet excited states is important for room temperature phosphorescence(RTP)materials to achieve multifunctional applications in humid environment.However,due to the lack of preparation strategies,the rea...Stabilizing triplet excited states is important for room temperature phosphorescence(RTP)materials to achieve multifunctional applications in humid environment.However,due to the lack of preparation strategies,the realization of RTP materials in water still faces challenges.Herein,a new design strategy was presented to achieve RTP in water by confining carbonized polymer dots(CPDs)in amino functional mesoporous silica(MSNs-NH_(2)).The as-prepared MSNs-CPDs aqueous dispersion exhibited blue afterglow,lasting more than 3 s to naked eyes.The triplet excited states were protected from non-radiative deactivation by the double-confinement effect including covalent bonding fixation and mesoporous structure confinement.The MSNs-CPDs inherited the structure of MSNs-NH_(2),so the stability of morphology and properties were superior to CPDs and even most of silica-based CPDs RTP materials.A water-related encryption technique demonstrated the promising application of MSNs-CPDs as smart materials in the field of information security.Besides,the possibility of potential application in ion detection was also explored.展开更多
Room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP) materials have attracted great attention due to their involvement of excited triplet states and comparatively long decay lifetimes.In this short review,recent progress on enhanc...Room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP) materials have attracted great attention due to their involvement of excited triplet states and comparatively long decay lifetimes.In this short review,recent progress on enhancement of RTP from purely organic materials is summarized.According to the mechanism of phosphorescence emission,two principles are discussed to construct efficient RTP materials:one is promoting intersystem crossing(ISC) efficiency by using aromatic carbonyl,heavyatom,or/and heterocycle/heteroatom containing compounds;the other is suppressing intramolecular motion and intermolecular collision which can quench excited triplet states,including embedding phosphors into polymers and packing them tightly in crystals.With aforementioned strategies,RTP from purely organic materials was achieved both in fluid and rigid media.展开更多
Supramolecular polymers with different functionalities have been continuously developed in the past decade because of their indispensable role in soft materials.However,pure organic supramolecular polymers with stable...Supramolecular polymers with different functionalities have been continuously developed in the past decade because of their indispensable role in soft materials.However,pure organic supramolecular polymers with stable room temperature phosphorescence(RTP)emission were very rarely reported for the difficulties of synthesis and achieving RTP in solution.Herein,soluble helical supramolecular polymers with circularly polarized room-temperature phosphorescence were developed via a facile hostguest strategy.Through assembly,a transition from pure fluorescence to almost pure RTP emission was achieved.Adjusting the asymmetry of guest could easily control the chiroptical property of supramolecular polymers.This work provides new opportunities for the design and development of intelligent soft functional soft materials.展开更多
基金the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 22125803, 22020102006 and 22307036)a project supported by the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project (No. 2018SHZDZX03)+2 种基金the Program of Shanghai Academic/Technology Research Leader (No. 20XD1421300)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2023M731079)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
文摘Organic room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)materials have garnered considerable attention in the fields of biosensing,optoelectronic devices,and anticounterfeiting because of their substantial Stokes shifts,tunable emission wavelengths,and prolonged lifetimes.These materials offer remarkable advantages for biological imaging applications by effectively reducing environmental autofluorescence and enhancing imaging resolution.Recently,host-guest systems have been employed as efficient approaches to fabricate pure-organic RTP materials for bioimaging,providing benefits such as controllable preparation and flexible modulation.Consequently,an increasing number of corresponding studies are being reported;however,a comprehensive systematic review is still lacking.Therefore,we summarize recent advances in the development of pureorganic RTP materials using host-guest systems with regard to bioimaging,including rigid matrices and sensitization.The challenge and potential of RTP for biological imaging are also proposed to promote the biomedical applications of organic RTP materials with excellent optical properties.
基金the financial support from the National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFF0215400)grants from the Gemmological Institute of the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan。
文摘Amber can emit room temperature phosphorescence(RTP)under the well-known 365 nm fluorescence ultraviolet light.This paper is devoted to the phosphorescence study of 20 pieces of amber materials from the Dominican Republic,Mexico,Baltic sea,Myanmar,and Fushun,China.The results show that amber from the same geographic origin has similar shape in phosphorescence spectra.However,the shape of the amber phosphorescence spectra varies depending on their different localities.Burmite(amber from Myanmar)and Fushun amber have a bright yellow phosphorescence with a long lifetime,while the Dominican and Mexican ones are weaker and last shorter.The irradiation of Baltic amber becomes faint or even inert.Phosphorescence spectral Gaussian fitting results suggest an emission maximum near 550 nm in most amber samples.Their phosphorescence lifetime,analyzed through the exponential function fitting,is up to 1 second in Burmite and Fushun samples,shorter in the Dominican and Mexican ones,about 0.230 s,and the shortest in Baltic amber,close to 0.151 s.These variations of phosphorescence lifetime and intensity are related to the relative geological ages of these amber.It indicated that the phosphorescence agent was probably formed during the long geological time.While the anomaly occurred in Baltic amber,the only one found in a sea secondary deposit form,it demonstrated that the terrestrial geological environment these amber preserved has prevented the phosphorescence agent to be deactivated.
文摘Sdrictants(S) induced room-ternperature phorphorescence(RTP) frorn l-bromonaplithalene(l-BrN) in aerated aqueous solutions of o-cyclodextha(β-CD) hasbeco mvestigated m detail. lt has been fotmd that the partial incIu5ion and coil ofhydIocarbon chain of edctans at the mouth of the 6-CD ca\4ty' is reSPoedle foTbright RTP
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52173292)the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS(2018040)。
文摘We demonstrate a new green solvent consisting of ionic liquid and polyol to achieve a selective fractionation of lignin from biomass.The lignin from corn straw is rich in syringyl unit and phenolic hydroxyl group,resulting in excellent room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)performance,antioxidation property and long-term photostability.Flexible film,fiber,aerogel and coatings with an ultralong RTP lifetime of 0.654 s are obtained.The lignin from corn straw completely blocks UV light of290–400 nm at an extremely low usage due to many p-coumarate units.When the content is as low as 1.54 mg/g,which is two orders of magnitude lower than the previous reports,the corresponding sunscreen cream has a super-high sun protection factor(SPF)of 183.9.More importantly,the lignin self-assembles into nanospheres of 250–350 nm,preventing penetration into the skin.Such easily-available,abundant,low-cost,safe and natural lignin provides an innovative avenue for sustainable optical function materials.
基金the National Natural Scientific Foundation of China(Grant Nos.22222501,21975021,21975020,21875019,22105019,and 22175023)supported by Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences(BNLMS202007)the BIT Research and Innovation Promoting Project(2022YCXZ035).
文摘Organic room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)materials have attracted immense attention in bioimaging due to their long emission lifetime and large Stokes shift.RTP materials with long emission wavelength can improve the penetration depth for bioimaging.However,the design of red persistent RTP materials is still challenging.In this study,a fused-ring structure has been proposed to effectively decrease the triplet energy level,thus extending the emission wavelength of phosphorescence.In addition,the fused-ring structure exhibits a high molar extinction coefficient(ɛ)and high luminescence efficiency due to the rigid structure.A new class of crystalline hosts(iminodibenzyl,IDB)are developed to stabilize the triplet excitons that are generated from the fused-ring molecules.The maximum RTP wavelength of doping materials can reach 635 nm with a lifetime of 9.35 ms.Water-disperse nanoparticles are successfully prepared for in vivo time-resolved bioimaging,which eliminates the background fluorescence interference from biological tissues.These reveal a delicate design strategy for the construction of long-wavelength emissive RTP materials for high-resolution bioimaging.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51872300 and 52003284)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20210481)the Fundamental Research Fund of Jiangnan University (No. JUSRP122015) for financially supporting this work。
文摘Materials with controllable luminescence colors are highly desirable for numerous promising applications, however, the preparation of such materials, particularly with color-controllable room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP), remains a formidable challenge. In this work, we reported on a facile strategy to prepare color-controllable RTP materials via the pyrolysis of a mixture containing 1-(2-hydroxyethyl)-urea(H-urea) and boric acid(BA). By controlling the pyrolysis temperatures, the as-prepared materials exhibited ultralong RTP with emission colors ranging from cyan, green, to yellow. Further studies revealed that multiple luminescent centers formed from H-urea, which were in-situ embedded in the B2O3matrix(produced from BA) during the pyrolysis process. The contents of the different luminescent centers could be regulated by the pyrolysis temperatures, resulting in color-tunable RTP. Significantly, the luminescent center engineering and in-situ immobilization strategy not only provided a facile method for conveniently preparing color-controllable RTP materials, but also endowed the materials prepared at relatively lower temperatures with color-changeable RTP features under thermal stimulus. Considering their unique properties, the potential applications of the as-obtained materials for advanced anti-counterfeiting and information encryption were preliminarily demonstrated.
基金the Ministry of Education and Synergetic Innovation Center for Organic Electronics and Information Displays,LiaoNing Revitalization Talents Program(grant no.XLYC1902111)and the Key Projects of the Department of Education,Liaoning Province(grant no.LZD202005)for their financial support of this research.
文摘Purely organic room-temperature phosphors,which have received extensive attention as emerging stateof-the-art luminescent materials in various fields,have a longer lifetime than fluorophores.The energy gap law and El-Sayed’s rule provide clear design principles for the development of organic room-temperature phosphorescence.Therefore,the incorporation of heteroatoms(such as sulfur and phosphorus)usually promotes the intersystem crossing rate and increases the 3(π,π*)configuration to realize long lifetimes.Furthermore,boron-containing phosphors not only display excellent phosphorescence properties but also expand El-Sayed’s rule without(n,π*)transitions.This review summarizes recent work on organic phosphorescence of heterocycles with boron,sulfur,and phosphorus heteroatoms and highlights the significance of the guidelines for constructing efficient phosphorescence molecules.This work is instrumental in further diversifying the pool of phosphorescent molecules and developing new and effective design strategies.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant/Award Numbers:22272109,21908146,21875143,22075184,21700102,22002039The Innovation Research Foundation of Shenzhen,Grant/Award Numbers:JCYJ20220818095807016,JCYJ20210324095406017The Foundation of Characterization Technique(Institute for Advanced Study,Central South University)。
文摘Room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)of purely organic materials is easily quenched with unexpected purposes because the excited triplet state is extremely susceptible to external stimuli.How to stabilize the RTP property of purely organic luminogens is still challenging and considered as the bottleneck in the further advancement of the bottom-up approach.Here,we describe a gated strategy that can effectively harness RTP by employing complexation/dissociation with proton.Due to the order-disorder transition orientation of intermolecular packing,the RTP of organic molecules 2,4,6-tris(4′-bromo-[1,1′-biphenyl]-4-yl)-1,3,5-triazine(Br-TRZ)will easily vanish upon mechanical force.Impressively,by enhancing its intramolec-ular charge transfer effect,the protonated Br-TRZ stubbornly possesses an obvious RTP under external grinding,whatever in the ordered or disordered intermolec-ular arrangement state.Consequently,the“Lock”gate of RTP was achieved in the protonated Br-TRZ molecule.Combined with theoretical calculation analy-sis,the enhanced charge transfer effect can narrow the energy gap singlet-tripletsignificantly,and stabilize the RTP property of triazine derivative sequentially.Fur-thermore,the locked RTP can be tuned via proton and counterions repeatedly and show excellent reversibility.This gated RTP concept provides an effective strategy for stabilizing the RTP emission of purely organic systems.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant/Award Numbers:51833001,51921002。
文摘Preparation of non-conjugated luminescent polymers(NCLPs)with excellent cluster luminescence(CL)performance is of great significance for scientific and industrious applications,and yet improving the performance of NCLPs through proper structural design is still a huge challenge.Herein,we report a non-conjugated ionized polymeric system consisting of(−)-camphorsulfonic acid((−)-CSA)and poly(2-vinylpyridine)(P2VP).These acid-base complexes exhibit typical excitationdependent fluorescence and room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)with a lifetime up to 364 ms.We discover that changing the stereoregularity from atactic to isotactic significantly improves the CL performance of the complex.It(1)broadens the fluorescence emission spectra to cover the entire visible region,(2)enhances the fluorescence emission intensity at long wavelength beyond 500 nm,(3)enhances the phosphorescence intensity,and(4)extends the phosphorescence lifetime.Systematical experimental characterization and molecular dynamics simulation unravel the key role of stereoregularity in determining the formation of different pyridine aggregates that strongly influence the CL performance.Moreover,the different luminescence shows great potential in excitation divided information display and time-resolved encrypted display.This work not only points to a new direction for developing NCLPs with excellent performance,but also broadens the applications of NCLPs materials.
基金supported by the Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation (No. JQ20003)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21771021, 21822501 and 22061130206)+3 种基金the Newton Advanced Fellowship award (No. NAFR1201285)the Fok Ying-Tong Education Foundation (No. 171008)the Measurements Fund of Beijing Normal Universitythe State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing。
文摘Long afterglow organic-inorganic hybrid materials have attracted much attention in recent years and are widely used in information security, biological imaging and many other fields. Since up-conversion long-persistence materials are promising for bio-optical imaging due to their high penetration depth and elimination of autofluorescence background, it is highly desirable to combine down-conversion and up-conversion pathways to obtain smart materials with excitation-dependent tunable room-temperature phosphorescence properties. In this work, a metal-organic framework(Zn-DCPS-BIMB), consisting of divalent zinc ions, o-bis(imidazol-1-ylmethyl)benzene and 4,4-dicarboxydiphenylsulfone, is designed to stabilize triplet excitons, coordinate the emission of different ligands, and endow materials with tunable emission color and up-conversion properties via heavy atoms effects promoting single-triplet orbital coupling and intersystem crossing.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant/Award Numbers:21975120,62134007,21875104Jiangsu Postdoctoral Research Funding Program,Grant/Award Number:2021K582Cthe fund for Talented of Nanjing Tech University,Grant/Award Number:201983。
文摘Room temperature phosphorescence(RTP)in metal-free organic materials has attracted considerable attention due to its rich excited state properties,high quantum efficiency,long luminescence lifetimes,etc.,showing great potential in organic optoelectronic devices,bioimaging,information anti-counterfeiting,and so forth.The crystals have excellent rigidity and clear molecular packing patterns,which can effectively avoid non-radiative transitions of excitons for phosphorescence enhancement.In the early stages,researchers paid great attention to the regulation of RTP performance in crystalline states.However,due to the complex preparation and poor processability of crystals,amorphous materials with RTP features have become a new research topic recently.This perspective aims to summarize the recent advances of RTP materials from crystalline to amorphous states,and analyze their molecular design strategies and luminescence mechanisms in detail.Finally,we prospect the future research directions of amorphous RTP materials.This perspective will provide a guideline for the future study of advanced RTP materials.
基金We appreciate financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21825402,31400860,21575096,and 21605109)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China(Nos.BK20191417 and BK20170061)the Program for Jiangsu Specially-Appointed Professors to Prof.Yao He,a project funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions(PAPD),111 Project as well as Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology(NANO-CIC).
文摘Nano Research volume 13,pages1614–1619(2020)Cite this article 236 Accesses Metrics details Abstract Optical silicon(Si)-based materials are highly attractive due to their widespread applications ranging from electronics to biomedicine.It is worth noting that while extensive efforts have been devoted to developing fluorescent Si-based structures,there currently exist no examples of Si-based materials featuring phosphorescence emission,severely limiting Si-based wide-ranging optical applications.To address this critical issue,we herein introduce a kind of Si-based material,in which metal-organic frameworks(MOFs)are in-situ growing on the surface of Si nanoparticles(SiNPs)assisted by microwave irradiation.Of particular significance,the resultant materials,i.e.,MOFs-encapsulated SiNPs(MOFs@SiNPs)could exhibit pH-responsive fluorescence,whose maximum emission wavelength is red-shifted from 442 to 592 nm when the pH increases from 2 to 13.More importantly,distinct room-temperature phosphorescence(maximum emission wavelength:505 nm)could be observed in this system,with long lifetime of 215 ms.Taking advantages of above-mentioned unique optical properties,the MOFs@SiNPs are further employed as high-quality anti-counterfeiting inks for advanced encryption.In comparison to conventional fluorescence anti-counterfeiting techniques(static fluorescence outputs are generally used,thus being easily duplicated and leading to counterfeiting risk),pH-responsive fluorescence and room-temperature phosphorescence of the resultant MOFs@SiNPs-based ink could offer advanced multi-modal security,which is therefore capable of realizing higher-level information security against counterfeiting.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21788102, 22125803, 22020102006,21871083, 22101083)Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project (2018SHZDZX03)+3 种基金‘Shu Guang’ Project supported by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Education Development Foundation (19SG26)the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (2017-01-07-00-02 E00010)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universitiesthe China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2021M691009)。
文摘Seeking pure organic functional luminescent materials that are processed from green, low-cost, and sustainable resources remains a challenging but beneficial task. As an abundant natural polymer composed of crosslinked phenol ether units, lignin is a potential source of organic luminescent material because of the presence of extensive aromatic fragments. In the present work, a remarkable afterglow involving room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP) was achieved via simply embedding alkalized lignin into polyvinyl alcohol(PVA) matrix, and an ultralong luminescence lifetime of more than 160 ms was observed. More importantly, our study revealed that small fragments of hydrolyzed lignin(named LA-H) bearing extensive phenolic oxygen anions were the effective luminescent species. When embedded into a PVA matrix, LA-H showed remarkably high luminescence quantum yield and long lifetime of RTP emission compared with those of unprocessed lignin. Additionally, the various phenol oxygen anion moieties endowed LA-H with an excitation-dependent characteristic: the color-tunable RTP could be simply tuned from a maximum emission wavelength of 434–532 nm via altering the excitation wavelength. Thus, the color-tunable afterglow of emissive LA-H could be facilely obtained with a yield up to 38.4% using simple acid hydrolysis of lignin without other complex synthesis procedures. This work opens new avenues in the large-scale preparation of low-cost and sustainable pure organic RTP materials.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21788102,22020102006,21871083,21722603)Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project(2018SHZDZX03)+2 种基金the Program of Shanghai Academic/Technology Research Leader(20XD1421300)Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Education Development Foundation(19SG26)the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission(2017-01-07-00-02-E00010)and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
文摘Pure organic room-temperature phosphorescent(RTP)materials have been attracting widespread attention due to the unique properties and broad applications.However,RTP materials with the adjustable photochromic property are still a challenge.Based on this,two polymers containing hexaarylbiimidazole are strategically designed with dual emission of both fluorescence and phosphorescence.Furthermore,both polymers show sensitive photochromic responses from faint yellow to brown upon exposure to ultraviolet light.This study can enrich pure organic luminescent systems and provide new ideas for functional RTP materials.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2017YFA0700102)the National Natural Science Foundationof China(22033008,21871263,22071245,22171265)Fujian Science&Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China(2021ZZ103).
文摘Comprehensive Summary Organic room-temperature phosphorescence(ORTP)materials have attracted widespread attention in the fields of OLED,optical imaging and sensors.Herein,we successfully prepared a long afterglow IPA-MA crystalline films using/so-phthalic acid(IPA)and melamine(MA)by a simple drop-casting layer-by-layer(LBL)method,which achieved an ultra-long emission lifetime of up to 1.15 s.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21788102 and 21525417)the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(2019B030301003 and 2016A030312002)the Innovation and Technology Commission of Hong Kong(ITC-CNERC14S01).
文摘Ultralong organic room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)materials have attracted tremendous attention recently due to their diverse applications.Several ultralong organic RTP materials mimicking the host-guest architecture of inorganic systems have been exploited successfully.However,complicated synthesis and high expenditure are still inevitable in these studies.Herein,we develop a series of novel host-guest organic phosphorescence systems,in which all luminophores are electron-rich,commercially available and halogen-atom-free.The maximum phosphorescence efficiency and the longest lifetime could reach 23.6%and 362 ms,respectively.Experimental results and theoretical calculation indicate that the host molecules not only play a vital role in providing a rigid environment to suppress non-radiative decay of the guest,but also show a synergistic effect to the guest through Förster resonance energy transfer(FRET).The commercial availability,facile preparation and unique properties also make these new host-guest materials an excellent candidate for the anti-counterfeiting application.This work will inspire researchers to develop new RTP systems with different wavelengths from commercially available luminophores.
基金the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21788102, 22125803, 22020102006 and 21871083)Program of Shanghai Academic/Technology Research Leader (No. 20XD1421300)+2 种基金‘Shu Guang’ Project supported by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Education Development Foundation (No. 19SG26)the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (No. 2017–01–07–00–02-E00010)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
文摘Pure organic room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)materials have attracted wide attention owing to their excellent luminescent properties and great potential in various applications.In this work,iminostilbene and its analogues are applied to realize RTP emission by copolymerizing with acrylamide.It can be concluded that the growth of alkane chain in monomers can enhance the lifetime and photoluminescence quantum yield of RTP emission,and polymers with the larger conjugated structure of the monomer show a longer RTP emission wavelength.This work provides a series of new pure organic RTP materials and might provide new thoughts for designing more advanced and superior RTP materials.
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, No. 22035001)
文摘Stabilizing triplet excited states is important for room temperature phosphorescence(RTP)materials to achieve multifunctional applications in humid environment.However,due to the lack of preparation strategies,the realization of RTP materials in water still faces challenges.Herein,a new design strategy was presented to achieve RTP in water by confining carbonized polymer dots(CPDs)in amino functional mesoporous silica(MSNs-NH_(2)).The as-prepared MSNs-CPDs aqueous dispersion exhibited blue afterglow,lasting more than 3 s to naked eyes.The triplet excited states were protected from non-radiative deactivation by the double-confinement effect including covalent bonding fixation and mesoporous structure confinement.The MSNs-CPDs inherited the structure of MSNs-NH_(2),so the stability of morphology and properties were superior to CPDs and even most of silica-based CPDs RTP materials.A water-related encryption technique demonstrated the promising application of MSNs-CPDs as smart materials in the field of information security.Besides,the possibility of potential application in ion detection was also explored.
基金the financial support from The National Basic Research Program of China(No.2014CB643802)Ministry of Science and Technology(No.2016YFB0401001)the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies for Comprehensive Utilization of Platinum Metals
文摘Room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP) materials have attracted great attention due to their involvement of excited triplet states and comparatively long decay lifetimes.In this short review,recent progress on enhancement of RTP from purely organic materials is summarized.According to the mechanism of phosphorescence emission,two principles are discussed to construct efficient RTP materials:one is promoting intersystem crossing(ISC) efficiency by using aromatic carbonyl,heavyatom,or/and heterocycle/heteroatom containing compounds;the other is suppressing intramolecular motion and intermolecular collision which can quench excited triplet states,including embedding phosphors into polymers and packing them tightly in crystals.With aforementioned strategies,RTP from purely organic materials was achieved both in fluid and rigid media.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21788102,22125803,22020102006,21871083)the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project(2018SHZDZX03)+3 种基金Program of Shanghai Academic/Technology Research Leader(20XD1421300)‘Shu Guang’Project supported by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Education Development Foundation(19SG26)the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission(2017-01-07-00-02-E00010)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universitie。
文摘Supramolecular polymers with different functionalities have been continuously developed in the past decade because of their indispensable role in soft materials.However,pure organic supramolecular polymers with stable room temperature phosphorescence(RTP)emission were very rarely reported for the difficulties of synthesis and achieving RTP in solution.Herein,soluble helical supramolecular polymers with circularly polarized room-temperature phosphorescence were developed via a facile hostguest strategy.Through assembly,a transition from pure fluorescence to almost pure RTP emission was achieved.Adjusting the asymmetry of guest could easily control the chiroptical property of supramolecular polymers.This work provides new opportunities for the design and development of intelligent soft functional soft materials.