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Proton‐Activated Amorphous Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence for Humidity Sensing and High‐Level Data Encryption
Author(s) -
Deng Yuchen,
Li Peng,
Sun Shujuan,
Jiang Haiyan,
Ji Xu,
Li Huanrong
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
chemistry – an asian journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.18
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1861-471X
pISSN - 1861-4728
DOI - 10.1002/asia.201901747
Subject(s) - phosphorescence , amorphous solid , singlet state , materials science , photochemistry , chemistry , crystallography , atomic physics , physics , optics , excited state , fluorescence
Supramolecular co‐assembling terpyridine‐derivatives with nanoclay ( LP ) are exploited to acquire efficient amorphous room‐temperature phosphorescence (RTP). Experimental and theoretical investigations reveal that this co‐assembly not only brings about a configuration transformation from the trans‐trans ( a ) to the cis‐trans ( a′′ ) form via the protonating process, significantly narrowing the singlet‐triplet energy gap, thereby effectively facilitating the single‐triplet ISC processes, but also well protects the triplet state and suppresses the nonradiative transitions via restricting molecular rotation and vibration by the hydrogen‐bond interactions between them. Additionally, the flexible and transparent films, through co‐assembling 1 @ LP (or 2 @ LP ) with polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), also display excellent phosphorescence performance. Owing to their distinctive RTP performances, the RH sensing and high‐level data encryption are achieved.