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Lanthanide-containing persistent luminescence materials with superbright red afterglow and excellent solution processability

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Lanthanide-containing persistent luminescence materials are promising candidates for a wide range of applications by virtue of splendid superiorities in afterglow performance. However, it is a crucial challenge to achieve high-quality afterglow materials at the attractive nanoscale, with uniform size, controllable morphology, and satisfying brightness. Herein, a bottom-up approach was developed to construct the high-quality afterglow nanoparticles, incorporating luminescent lanthanide complex and organic molecular ingredients under mild conditions. These nanoparticles exhibited intrinsic lanthanide luminescence with superbright red afterglow (>10 cd m−2) in a homogeneous solution. The afterglow solution with excellent processability can serve as ideal building blocks for the on-demand fabrication of functional nanomaterials. Water-dispersible afterglow nanoparticles with state-of-the-art high brightness were uniformly constructed to perform whole-blood lateral flow assay of procalcitonin with a naked-eye detection limit of 0.5 ng mL−1, promoting the point-of-care testing development.

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This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFA0205100) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21937003).

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    Ming Xu, Jia Liu, Xianlong Su, Qianwen Zhou, Hang Yuan, Yue Wen & Fuyou Li

  2. Shanghai Taywell Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Shanghai, 200438, China

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Xu, M., Liu, J., Su, X. et al. Lanthanide-containing persistent luminescence materials with superbright red afterglow and excellent solution processability. Sci. China Chem. 64, 2125–2133 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-021-1099-x

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