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Room temperature phosphorescence from natural products: Crystallization matters

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Efficient room temperature phosphorescence is observed in natural compounds and polymers such as starch, cellulose, bovine serum albumin (BSA), and some other carbohydrates. Whereas being practically nonluminescent in solutions and TLC plates, they emit bright phosphorescence in the crystalline states with lifetime up to microseconds, exhibiting crystallization-induced phosphorescence (CIP) characteristics. The CIP of these natural products without any conventional chromophores offers a new platform for the exploration of conceptually novel luminogens.

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  1. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    YongYang Gong, YiRen Zhang, WangZhang Yuan & YongMing Zhang

  2. Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China

    YeQiang Tan, Ju Mei & JingZhi Sun

  3. Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Ben Zhong Tang

  4. HKUST Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, 518057, China

    Ben Zhong Tang

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Gong, Y., Tan, Y., Mei, J. et al. Room temperature phosphorescence from natural products: Crystallization matters. Sci. China Chem. 56, 1178–1182 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-013-4923-8

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