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Zhen Li¹, Chuanzhen Zhang¹, Wenhuan Huang²

¹School of Chemistry, Engineering Research Center of Energy Storage Materials and Devices, Ministry of Education, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China.

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Area of Science:

Materials Science
Polymer Chemistry
Optoelectronics

Background:

Conventional room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) polymers lack dynamic structural changes for on-demand emission.
This limits their use in smart devices and advanced applications.
Developing RTP materials with controllable emission is a significant challenge.

Purpose of the Study:

To create a novel RTP polymer material with on-demand emission capabilities.
To enable 3D printing of complex structures with tunable phosphorescence.
To explore applications in information encryption and anticounterfeiting.

Main Methods:

Doping purely organic chromophores into a polymer network with free hydroxyl side chains.
Utilizing thermal-triggered nonequilibrium transesterification for RTP activation.
Employing liquid crystal display (LCD) 3D printing for fabrication.

Main Results:

Achieved on-demand phosphorescence emission by increasing cross-linking degrees, restricting chromophore motion.
Observed ultralong RTP emission due to enhanced polymer network stiffness.
Successfully visualized polymer modulus changes via phosphorescence intensity.
Demonstrated complex, multimaterial 3D printed objects with regional multicolored phosphorescence.

Conclusions:

The developed polymer enables controlled RTP with on-demand emission capabilities.
This work provides a new pathway for intelligent RTP materials.
Potential applications include anticounterfeiting, detection, and smart devices.