Issue 14, 2023

Evolution and fabrication of carbon dot-based room temperature phosphorescence materials

Abstract

Traditional room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) materials usually include organometallic composites and pure organic compounds, which generally possess the disadvantages of high toxicity, high cost and complicated preparation. Carbon dots (CDs) are a new kind of luminescent material and have attracted widespread attention due to their benefits of excellent tunable emission, nice biocompatibility, cost-effectiveness, facile preparation and environmental friendliness. Since photoluminescence is an important luminescent property of carbon-based fluorescent nanomaterials, CD-based RTP materials have sparked a new research wave due to the properties of extremely long phosphorescence lifetime, large Stokes shift and high environmental sensitivity. In order to construct excellent CD-based RTP materials, many attempts have been made, and the corresponding progress has been achieved. Herein, we summarize the progress in CD-based RTP materials in recent years, mainly focusing on the outstanding contributions over the years, phosphorescence emission, phosphorescence lifetime, preparation and application of CD-based RTP materials. In particular, this review provides a comprehensive summary and analyze the outstanding contributions in the fields of the phosphorescence emission and phosphorescence lifetime of CD-based RTP materials over the years. Finally, several existing challenges and the future outlook of RTP materials based on CDs have been put forward.

Graphical abstract: Evolution and fabrication of carbon dot-based room temperature phosphorescence materials

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
05 1 2023
Accepted
02 3 2023
First published
02 3 2023
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Sci., 2023,14, 3705-3729

Evolution and fabrication of carbon dot-based room temperature phosphorescence materials

J. Li, Y. Wu and X. Gong, Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 3705 DOI: 10.1039/D3SC00062A

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