Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Enabling long-lived organic room temperature phosphorescence in polymers by subunit interlocking

  • Suzhi Cai,
  • Huili Ma,
  • Huifang Shi,
  • He Wang,
  • Xuan Wang,
  • Leixin Xiao,
  • Wenpeng Ye,
  • Kaiwei Huang,
  • Xudong Cao,
  • Nan Gan,
  • Chaoqun Ma,
  • Mingxing Gu,
  • Lulu Song,
  • Hai Xu,
  • Youtian Tao,
  • Chunfeng Zhang,
  • Wei Yao,
  • Zhongfu An,
  • Wei Huang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11749-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Long-lived room temperature phosphorescence (LRTP) is important in organic photonics but exploring a universal approach to obtain LRTP in amorphous polymers is challenging. Here the authors present a facile chemical strategy to achieve ultralong phosphorescence in polymers by ionic bonding cross-linking.