Stimulus‐Responsive Emission via Dynamic Triplet Energy Transfer in Organic Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence Glass

Z Zixuan Xu W Wenbin Chen K Keyao Chen (Center for AIE Research Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology Guangdong Research Center for Interfacial Engineering of Functional Materials College of Materials Science and Engineering Shenzhen University Shenzhen 518060 P. R. China) S Songwang Lin (Center for AIE Research Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology Guangdong Research Center for Interfacial Engineering of Functional Materials College of Materials Science and Engineering Shenzhen University Shenzhen 518060 P. R. China) Z Zongyao Wu G Guoqing Deng (Center for AIE Research Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology Guangdong Research Center for Interfacial Engineering of Functional Materials College of Materials Science and Engineering Shenzhen University Shenzhen 518060 P. R. China) J Juncheng Chen (Center for AIE Research Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology Guangdong Research Center for Interfacial Engineering of Functional Materials College of Materials Science and Engineering Shenzhen University Shenzhen 518060 P. R. China) M Muhammad Tayyab Y Yu Xiong M Ming‐De Li (School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Sensing Physics and System Integration Applications Guangdong University of Technology Guangzhou Guangdong P.R. China) D Dong Wang Z Zhongfu An (State Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (LoFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), School of Flexible Electronics (Future Technologies)) B Ben Zhong Tang (School of Science and Engineering, Guangdong Basic Research Center of Excellence for Aggregate Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Longgang, Shenzhen 518172, Guangdong, P. R. China)

Abstract

Abstract Dynamic organic room‐temperature phosphorescence (RTP) glasses with color tunability offer significant potential for practical applications due to their high transparency and excellent machinability. In this study, organic glasses with efficient and dynamic RTP properties are used as triplet donors, combined with commercially available chromophores as singlet/triplet acceptors, to successfully fabricate a series of host‐guest doping glasses with color‐tunable organic afterglow and dynamic responses to external stimuli. The energy transfer mechanisms, including triplet‐to‐singlet phosphorescence resonance energy transfer and Dexter‐type triplet‐to‐triplet energy transfer, are confirmed using state‐of‐the‐art femtosecond time‐resolved transient absorption spectroscopy. These organic glasses demonstrate excellent transparency, good machinability, and dynamic responsiveness to external stimuli. The study highlights their potential applications in large‐area afterglow glass fabrication, dynamic data encryption, and flexible afterglow displays. This work not only provides a simple design principle for developing novel organic glass materials with color tunability and dynamic responses but also promotes the potential applications of organic RTP materials in dynamic information encryption and flexible optoelectronics.

Article Details

Volume / Issue Vol. 37, Issue 20
Published May 01, 2025
ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher Unknown Publisher

Journal Info

Advanced Materials

Unknown Publisher

ISSN: 0935-9648 Physical Sciences

Authors (13)

Z

Zixuan Xu

W

Wenbin Chen

K

Keyao Chen

Center for AIE Research Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology Guangdong Research Center for Interfacial Engineering of Functional Materials College of Materials Science and Engineering Shenzhen University Shenzhen 518060 P. R. China

S

Songwang Lin

Center for AIE Research Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology Guangdong Research Center for Interfacial Engineering of Functional Materials College of Materials Science and Engineering Shenzhen University Shenzhen 518060 P. R. China

Z

Zongyao Wu

G

Guoqing Deng

Center for AIE Research Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology Guangdong Research Center for Interfacial Engineering of Functional Materials College of Materials Science and Engineering Shenzhen University Shenzhen 518060 P. R. China

J

Juncheng Chen

Center for AIE Research Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology Guangdong Research Center for Interfacial Engineering of Functional Materials College of Materials Science and Engineering Shenzhen University Shenzhen 518060 P. R. China

M

Muhammad Tayyab

Y

Yu Xiong

M

Ming‐De Li

School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Sensing Physics and System Integration Applications Guangdong University of Technology Guangzhou Guangdong P.R. China

D

Dong Wang

Z

Zhongfu An

State Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (LoFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), School of Flexible Electronics (Future Technologies)

B

Ben Zhong Tang

School of Science and Engineering, Guangdong Basic Research Center of Excellence for Aggregate Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Longgang, Shenzhen 518172, Guangdong, P. R. China