Achieving Tunable Organic Afterglow and UV‐Irradiation‐Responsive Ultralong Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence from Pyridine‐Substituted Triphenylamine Derivatives

Amorphous polymers with ultralong room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) are highly promising for various applications. Particularly, polymer-based RTP materials with multiple functions such as color-tunability or stimulus-response are highly desirable for multilevel anti-counterfeiting but are rarely reported. Herein, a facile strategy is presented to achieve a series of polymer-based RTP materials with ultralong lifetime, multicolor afterglow, and reversible response to UV irradiation by simply embedding pyridine-substituted triphenylamine derivatives into the polymer matrix poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), respectively. Notably, the pyridine group with the capabilities of…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 21805233, 52273197, JCYJ20180306174910791
• SU
  Shenzhen University
• BA
  Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province

  Award: 2023A1515011004