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Zhe Mo1, Tengyue Wang1, Qianqian Yan1

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry and Shanghai Hongkong Joint Laboratory in Chemical Synthesis, Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Self-Assembly Chemistry for Organic Functional Molecules, Ningbo Zhongke Creation Center of New Materials, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai, 200032, P. R. China.

Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|August 30, 2025
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New organic emitters enable visual confirmation of biomedical hydrogel formation and precise localization. This gelation-induced afterglow technology offers enhanced control and visibility for hydrogel applications.

Keywords:
hydrogelorganic afterglowoxygen quenchingroom‐temperature phosphorescencetriplet excited states

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