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Researchers developed rigid polymer microspheres from flexible room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) polymers. These new materials exhibit enhanced brightness, quantum yields, and longer lifetimes for advanced applications.

Keywords:
detection of anilinefull‐color room temperature phosphorescencein situ cross‐linked self‐assembledintrinsic polymer microspheresultra‐long phosphorescence lifetimes and high quantum yield

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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Polymer Chemistry
  • Photophysics

Background:

  • Room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) polymer materials offer modifiability and ease of preparation for flexible electronics and information encryption.
  • Flexible polymer structures often lead to a trade-off between high quantum yields (ΦP) and short phosphorescence lifetimes (τP), or vice versa.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a strategy for enhancing RTP properties of flexible polymers.
  • To create rigid polymer microspheres with improved phosphorescence quantum yields, lifetimes, and brightness.

Main Methods:

  • An in situ cross-linked self-assembly strategy was employed to transform flexible weak RTP polymers into rigid polymer microspheres.
  • Characterization of the resulting microspheres (PM1) for phosphorescence properties (τP, ΦP, brightness) and stability.

Main Results:

  • The RTP microspheres (PM1) achieved maximum τP of 2020 ms and ΦP of 34.1%, with brightness up to 655.1 mcd/m2.
  • These properties represent significant improvements (6.4-, 5.3-, and 10.2-fold increases) compared to the intrinsic flexible polymer (P1).
  • The microspheres demonstrated excellent stability in acidic, basic, and aqueous environments, and the doped film showed high sensitivity for aniline detection (3.7 × 10-8 m).

Conclusions:

  • The in situ cross-linked self-assembly strategy effectively enhances RTP properties of flexible polymers by forming rigid microspheres.
  • These novel RTP microspheres possess superior photophysical properties and stability, outperforming existing RTP polymer materials.
  • The developed materials show promise for applications in sensing, particularly for selective and sensitive detection of analytes like aniline.