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Citric acid: a powerful biomass-derived host doped with diverse guests for green room-temperature phosphorescence materials

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Tuning intramolecular charge transfer and suppressing rotations in thianthrene derivatives for enhancement of room-temperature phosphorescence

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Crystal structures, dual-state emissions and polymer-based doped room-temperature phosphorescence of 8-benzyloxyisoquinoline derivatives

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A polymer rigidity probe based on ultralong organic room temperature phosphorescence of a new skeleton benzo[4,5]imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine

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Elucidating the mechanism behind the significant changes in photoluminescence behavior after powder compression into a tablet

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Efficient triplet–triplet energy transfer that activates room-temperature phosphorescence of coumarin guests

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Tumor Stiffness‐Enhanced Room Temperature Phosphorescence Imaging Using Dual‐Ligand Nanoprobes

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3D-printable phosphorescent woody materials

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Recent advances in multicolor organic room-temperature phosphorescence

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Applied Physics Reviews, 2023, 10
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High-security information encryption strategy based on optical functional materials: A review on materials design, problems, multiple coding, and beyond

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Ambient Phosphor with High Efficiency and Long Lifetime in Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Through Charge‐Transfer‐Mediated Triplet Exciton Formation for Photolithography Applications

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Design and Construction of Highly Luminescent Transparent Woody Materials Exhibiting Unique Fluorescence-Enhanced Staining Effects for Visualization of Intrinsic Microporous Networks

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Ultralong aqueous organic room-temperature phosphorescent probes for in vivo time-resolved bioimaging

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Suppressive Photochromism and Promotive Mechanochromism of Rhodamine Mechanophore by the Strategy of Poly(methyl acrylate)/Polyurethane Interpenetrating Polymer Network

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Tunable Helix Inversion and Circularly Polarized Luminescence in Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Copolymers with Room-Temperature Phosphorescence

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Phosphorescence or Delayed Fluorescence? Fate of Excitons in Core-Substituted Naphthalimide-Derived Emitters and Ratiometric Optical Oxygen Sensors

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Large‐Scale Preparation for Multicolor Stimulus‐Responsive Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence Paper via Cellulose Heterogeneous Reaction

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Engineering Tunable Ratiometric Dual Emission in Single Emitter‐based Amorphous Systems

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Engineering Tunable Ratiometric Dual Emission in Single Emitter‐based Amorphous Systems

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Long-lived dynamic room temperature phosphorescent carbon dots for advanced sensing and bioimaging applications

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Bio‐Derived Photonic Film With Switchable and High‐Asymmetry Circularly Polarized NIR Afterglow

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Fine Tuning of Hydrogen Bonding Interaction on Boosting the Room-Temperature Phosphorescence in Organic Host–Guest System

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Highly transparent cellulose-based phosphorescent materials with tunable afterglow colors and white emission

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Facile Preparation of Full‐Color Tunable Room Temperature Phosphorescence Cellulose via Click Chemistry

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Ambient Phosphor with High Efficiency and Long Lifetime in Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Through Charge‐Transfer‐Mediated Triplet Exciton Formation for Photolithography Applications

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Modulating room-temperature phosphorescence of D-π-A luminogens via methyl substitution, positional isomerism, and host–guest doping

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Enabling Highly Robust Full‐Color Ultralong Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence and Stable White Organic Afterglow from Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

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Rigidity‐Mediated Afterglow Tuning of Small Molecules in Polymer Matrix through Photoinitiated Solvent‐Free Copolymerization

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Advanced Optical Materials, 2023, 11
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Impurity-Induced Phosphorescence in Purely Organic Materials

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ACS Materials Lett., 2024, 6, 2703
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Proton transfer induced persistent triplet charge transfer phosphorescence in molecule-doped polymer systems

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Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024, 497, 154819
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Switchable circular polarized phosphorescence enabled by cholesteric assembled nanocelluloses

Xi Wang, Qing Miao, Wenjing Zhang, Yi Zhou, Rui Xiong, Yingying Duan, Xiao Meng and Chunhong Ye

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Enabling Highly Robust Full‐Color Ultralong Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence and Stable White Organic Afterglow from Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

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Polycyclic Aromatics as Promising Phosphorescence Materials

Peipei Liu, Qianqian Li and Zhen Li

ChemistryEurope, 2025, 3
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Achieving ultralong-lived flexible room-temperature phosphorescence, detection of strain and photostability, and high-level data encryption based on benzophenone derivatives

Yang Zhu, Haoqun Wu, Meiling Pan, Lei Ma and Yongtao Wang

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Synthesis, Properties, Applications and Challenges of Multicomponent Doped Organic Room Temperature Phosphorescence Materials

Zhenjie Zhou, Huizhong Wang, Junxiong Yao, Tian Wang, Jianhua Liu, Xiaohua Cao, Qiang Feng, Bingbing Yue, Dianyuan Wang, Jianguo Wang and Huanan Huang

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Photoinduced On and Off Polymeric Room Temperature Phosphorescence Based On Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Isomers

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Chemistry A European J, 2024, 30
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Oxygen-independent photoactivation of kinetically trapped persistent room-temperature phosphorescence state for smart cold-chain monitoring

Shulin Liu, Chensheng Li, Weijia Xie, Aoyuan Cheng, Yingxiao Mu, Yanping Huo, Fushun Liang and Guoqing Zhang

Sci. China Mater., 2025, 68, 2688
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