UV-Curing-Enhanced Organic Long-Persistent Luminescence Materials

Adv Mater. 2023 Nov;35(44):e2304820. doi: 10.1002/adma.202304820. Epub 2023 Sep 22.

Abstract

Amorphous organic long-persistent luminescence materials (OLPLMs) can realize simpler solution processing and large-area uniform luminescence, where the luminescent properties are significantly influenced by the rigid environment. However, research on utilizing the rigidity to promote long-persistent luminescence (LPL) properties of amorphous OLPLMs is still relatively rare due to the lack of an unambiguous and effective strategy to construct the rigid environment. Here, a universal strategy is proposed to enhance the LPL performance of organic host-guest doping systems by UV curing, which utilizes the rigid environment constructed by UV curing to promote the interaction between host and guest, thus inducing a generation of materials with highly efficient LPL performance. This solution-processable, large-area, and "easy-to-realize" material fabrication strategy can make amorphous OLPLMs show broader application prospects in some fields, such as anti-counterfeiting, nondestructive detection, and pattern marking or indication.

Keywords: UV curing; anti-counterfeiting; nondestructive detection; organic long-persistent luminescence; room-temperature phosphorescence.