Color-tunable Ultralong Organic Room Temperature Phosphorescence from a Multicomponent Copolymer

Overview

Journal Nat Commun

Specialty Biology

Date 2020 Feb 20

PMID 32071308

Citations 48

Authors

Long Gu

Hongwei Wu

Huili Ma

Wenpeng Ye

Wenyong Jia

He Wang

Hongzhong Chen

Nan Zhang

Dongdong Wang

Cheng Qian

Zhongfu An

Wei Huang

Yanli Zhao

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Abstract

Functional materials displaying tunable emission and long-lived luminescence have recently emerged as a powerful tool for applications in information encryption, organic electronics and bioelectronics. Herein, we present a design strategy to achieve color-tunable ultralong organic room temperature phosphorescence (UOP) in polymers through radical multicomponent cross-linked copolymerization. Our experiments reveal that by changing the excitation wavelength from 254 to 370 nm, these polymers display multicolor luminescence spanning from blue to yellow with a long-lived lifetime of 1.2 s and a maximum phosphorescence quantum yield of 37.5% under ambient conditions. Moreover, we explore the application of these polymers in multilevel information encryption based on the color-tunable UOP property. This strategy paves the way for the development of multicolor bio-labels and smart luminescent materials with long-lived emission at room temperature.

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