Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Structural materials with afterglow room temperature phosphorescence activated by lignin oxidation

  • Keliang Wan,
  • Bing Tian,
  • Yingxiang Zhai,
  • Yuxuan Liu,
  • He Wang,
  • Shouxin Liu,
  • Shujun Li,
  • Wenpeng Ye,
  • Zhongfu An,
  • Changzhi Li,
  • Jian Li,
  • Tony D. James,
  • Zhijun Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33273-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Sustainable afterglow room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) Structural materials are difficult to achieve. Here, the authors demonstrate a wood based RTP material by oxidation of lignin to realize an afterglow RTP material with a lifetime of ~ 408 ms.