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Color-tunable ultralong organic phosphorescence materials for visual UV-light detection

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Ultralong organic phosphorescence (UOP) materials have roused considerable attention in the field of photonics and optoelectronics owing to the feature of long-lived emission lifetimes. However, to develop UOP materials with color-tunability is still a formidable challenge. Here, we report a class of UOP materials containing carbonyl, amino or amide groups, exhibiting colortunable persistent luminescence ranging from blue (458 nm) to yellow-green (508 nm) under different UV wavelength excitation. Taken theoretical and experimental results together, we conclude that the excitation dependent color-tunable UOP emission is ascribed to multiple emission centers from single molecular and aggregated states in crystal. Given color-tunable UOP feature, these materials are used to successfully realize visual UV-light detection. This finding not only provides a strategy to design new organic phosphorescent molecules with colorful emission, but also extends the scope of the applications of purely organic phosphorescent materials.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21875104, 21975120, 21973043, 91833304, 51673095), the Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of Jiangsu Province (BK20180037), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. We are grateful to the High Performance Computing Center of Nanjing Tech University for technical support.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, 211816, China

    Lifang Bian, Huili Ma, Wenpeng Ye, Anqi Lv, He Wang, Wenyong Jia, Long Gu, Huifang Shi, Zhongfu An & Wei Huang

  2. Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics (FSCFE), Shaanxi Institute of Flexible Electronics (SIFE) & Shaanxi Institute of Biomedical Materials and Engineering (SIBME), Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), Xi’an, 710072, China

    Wei Huang

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Bian, L., Ma, H., Ye, W. et al. Color-tunable ultralong organic phosphorescence materials for visual UV-light detection. Sci. China Chem. 63, 1443–1448 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-020-9761-x

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