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Chen X, Zhu R, Zhang B, Zhang X, Cheng A, Liu H, Gao R, Zhang X, Chen B, Ye S, Jiang J, Zhang G. Rapid room-temperature phosphorescence chiral recognition of natural amino acids. Nat Commun 2024; 15:3314. [PMID: 38632229 PMCID: PMC11024135 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47648-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2023] [Accepted: 04/09/2024] [Indexed: 04/19/2024] Open
Abstract
Chiral recognition of amino acids is very important in both chemical and life sciences. Although chiral recognition with luminescence has many advantages such as being inexpensive, it is usually slow and lacks generality as the recognition module relies on structural complementarity. Here, we show that one single molecular-solid sensor, L-phenylalanine derived benzamide, can manifest the structural difference between the natural, left-handed amino acid and its right-handed counterpart via the difference of room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) irrespective of the specific chemical structure. To realize rapid and reliable sensing, the doped samples are obtained as nanocrystals from evaporation of the tetrahydrofuran solutions, which allows for efficient triplet-triplet energy transfer to the chiral analytes generated in situ from chiral amino acids. The results show that L-analytes induce strong RTP, whereas the unnatural D-analytes produce barely any afterglow. The method expands the scope of luminescence chiral sensing by lessening the requirement for specific molecular structures.
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- Xiaoyu Chen
- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, Hefei, China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, Hefei, China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, Hefei, China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, Hefei, China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, Hefei, China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, Hefei, China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, Hefei, China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, Hefei, China.
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, Hefei, China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, Hefei, China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, Hefei, China.
- Hefei National Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230094, China.
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Zeng M, Wang W, Zhang S, Gao Z, Yan Y, Liu Y, Qi Y, Yan X, Zhao W, Zhang X, Guo N, Li H, Li H, Xie G, Tao Y, Chen R, Huang W. Enabling robust blue circularly polarized organic afterglow through self-confining isolated chiral chromophore. Nat Commun 2024; 15:3053. [PMID: 38594234 PMCID: PMC11004163 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47240-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2023] [Accepted: 03/25/2024] [Indexed: 04/11/2024] Open
Abstract
Creating circularly polarized organic afterglow system with elevated triplet energy levels, suppressed non-radiative transitions, and effective chirality, which are three critical prerequisites for achieving blue circularly polarized afterglow, has posed a formidable challenge. Herein, a straightforward approach is unveiled to attain blue circularly polarized afterglow materials by covalently self-confining isolated chiral chromophore within polymer matrix. The formation of robust hydrogen bonds within the polymer matrix confers a distinctly isolated and stabilized molecular state of chiral chromophores, endowing a blue emission band at 414 nm, lifetime of 3.0 s, and luminescent dissymmetry factor of ~ 10-2. Utilizing the synergistic afterglow and chirality energy transfer, full-color circularly polarized afterglow systems are endowed by doping colorful fluorescent molecules into designed blue polymers, empowering versatile applications. This work paves the way for the streamlined design of blue circularly polarized afterglow materials, expanding the horizons of circularly polarized afterglow materials into various domains.
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- Mingjian Zeng
- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Tele communications, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Tele communications, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Tele communications, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Tele communications, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Tele communications, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Tele communications, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Tele communications, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Tele communications, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Tele communications, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Tele communications, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Tele communications, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Tele communications, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Tele communications, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Tele communications, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Tele communications, Nanjing, China.
- Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, Guangdong, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Tele communications, Nanjing, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Tele communications, Nanjing, China.
- Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics (FSCFE), MIIT Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLoFE), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shanxi, China.
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Yang B, Yan S, Zhang Y, Ban S, Ma H, Feng F, Huang W. Double-Model Decay Strategy Integrating Persistent Photogenic Radicaloids with Dynamic Circularly Polarized Doublet Radiance and Triplet Afterglow. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:7668-7678. [PMID: 38451846 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c14262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/09/2024]
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Organic phosphors integrating circularly polarized persistent luminescence (CPPL) across the visible range are widespread for applications in optical information encryption, bioimaging, and 3D display, but the pursuit of color-tunable CPPL in single-component organics remains a formidable task. Herein, via in situ photoimplanting radical ion pairing into axial chiral crystals, we present and elucidate an unprecedented double-module decay strategy to achieve a colorful CPPL through a combination of stable triplet emission from neutral diphosphine and doublet radiance from photogenic radicals in an exclusive crystalline framework. Owing to the photoactivation-dependent doublet radiance component and an inherent triplet phosphorescence in the asymmetric environment, the CPL vision can be regulated by altering the photoactivation and observation time window, allowing colorful glow tuning from blue and orange to delayed green emission. Mechanism studies clearly reveal that this asymmetric electron migration environment and hybrid n-π* and π-π* instincts are responsible for the afterglow and radical radiance at ambient conditions. Moreover, we demonstrate the applications of colorful CPPL for displays and encryption via manipulation of both excitation and observation times.
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- Bo Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
- Shenzhen Research Institute of Nanjing University, Shenzhen 518057, P. R. China
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Cao M, Ren Y, Wu Y, Shen J, Li S, Yu ZQ, Liu S, Li J, Rojas OJ, Chen Z. Biobased and biodegradable films exhibiting circularly polarized room temperature phosphorescence. Nat Commun 2024; 15:2375. [PMID: 38490985 PMCID: PMC10943238 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45844-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2023] [Accepted: 02/06/2024] [Indexed: 03/18/2024] Open
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There is interest in developing sustainable materials displaying circularly polarized room-temperature phosphorescence, which have been scarcely reported. Here, we introduce biobased thin films exhibiting circularly polarized luminescence with simultaneous room-temperature phosphorescence. For this purpose, phosphorescence-active lignosulfonate biomolecules are co-assembled with cellulose nanocrystals in a chiral construct. The lignosulfonate is shown to capture the chirality generated by cellulose nanocrystals within the films, emitting circularly polarized phosphorescence with a 0.21 dissymmetry factor and 103 ms phosphorescence lifetime. By contrast with most organic phosphorescence materials, this chiral-phosphorescent system possesses phosphorescence stability, with no significant recession under extreme chemical environments. Meanwhile, the luminescent films resist water and humid environments but are fully biodegradable (16 days) in soil conditions. The introduced bio-based, environmentally-friendly circularly polarized phosphorescence system is expected to open many opportunities, as demonstrated here for information processing and anti-counterfeiting.
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- Mengnan Cao
- Key Laboratory of Bio-based Material Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 150040, China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518071, China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518071, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-based Material Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 150040, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-based Material Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 150040, China.
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-based Material Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 150040, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-based Material Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 150040, China
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- Bioproducts Institute, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada.
- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, Canada.
- Department of Wood Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada.
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-based Material Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 150040, China.
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Qiu X, Yang X, Guo Q, Liu J, Zhang X. Ln-HOF Nanofiber Organogels with Time-Resolved Luminescence for Programmable and Reliable Encryption. NANO LETTERS 2023; 23:11916-11924. [PMID: 38055678 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c04069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/08/2023]
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Developing tunable luminescent materials for high throughput information storage is highly desired following the explosive growth of global data. Although considerable success has been achieved, achieving programmable information encryption remains challenging due to current signal crosstalk problems. Here, we developed long-lived room-temperature phosphorescent organogels enabled by lanthanum-coordinated hydrogen-bonded organic framework nanofibers for time-resolved information programming. Via modulating coassembled lanthanum concentration and Förster resonance energy transfer efficiency, the lifetimes are prolonged and facilely manipulated (20-644 ms), realizing encoding space enlargement and multichannel data outputs. The aggregated strong interfacial supramolecular bonding endows organogels with excellent mechanical toughness (36.16 MJ m-2) and self-healing properties (95.7%), synergistically achieving photostability (97.6% lifetime retention in 10000 fatigue cycles) via suppressing nonradiative decays. This work presents a lifetime-gated information programmable strategy via lanthanum-coordination regulation that promisingly breaks through limitations of current responsive luminescent materials, opening unprecedented avenues for high-level information encryption and protection.
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- Xiaoyan Qiu
- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Polymer Research Institute, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Polymer Research Institute, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle (Saale) 06120, Germany
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Polymer Research Institute, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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Mu Q, Liu H, Song Y, Wang CK, Lin L, Xu Y, Fan J. Theoretical exploration of the bromine substitution effect and hydrostatic pressure responsive mechanism for room temperature phosphorescence. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:23207-23221. [PMID: 37605930 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp02770h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/23/2023]
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Stimulus-responsive organic room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) materials with long lifetimes, high efficiencies and tunable emission properties have broad applications. However, the amounts and species of efficient RTP materials are far from meeting the requirements and the inner stimulus-responsive mechanisms are unclear. Therefore, developing efficient stimulus-responsive RTP materials is highly desired and the relationship between the molecular structures and luminescent properties of RTP materials needs to be clarified. Based on this point, the influences of different substitution sites of Br on the luminescent properties of RTP molecules are studied by the combined quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics (QM/MM) coupled with thermal vibration correlation function (TVCF) theory. Moreover, the hydrostatic pressure effect on the efficiencies and lifetimes is explored and the inner mechanism is illustrated. The results show that, for the exciton conversion process, the o-substitution molecule possesses the largest spin-orbit coupling (SOC) value (〈S1|Ĥso|T1〉) in the intersystem crossing (ISC) process and this is conducive to the accumulation of triplet excitons. However, for the energy consumption process, the large SOC value (〈S0|Ĥso|T1〉) for the p-substitution molecule brings a fast non-radiative decay rate, and the small SOC value for the m-substitution molecule generates a decreased non-radiative decay rate which is helpful for realizing long lifetime emission. Keeping with this perspective, the conflict between high exciton utilization and long RTP emission needs to be balanced rather than enhancing the SOC effect by simply adding heavy atoms in RTP systems. Through regulating the molecular stacking modes by the hydrostatic pressure effect, the inner stimulus-responsive mechanism is revealed. The data of 〈S1|Ĥso|T1〉 in the ISC process remain almost unchanged, while 〈S0|Ĥso|T1〉 values and transition dipole moments are sensitive to the hydrostatic pressure. Under 1 GPa, the RTP molecule achieves a maximum efficiency (81.17%) and long lifetime (2.72 ms) with the smallest SOC and decreased non-radiative decay rate. To our knowledge, this is the first time that the hydrostatic pressure responsive mechanism for RTP molecules is revealed from a theoretical perspective, and the relationships between molecular structures and luminescent properties are detected. Our work could facilitate the development of high performance RTP molecules and expand their applications in multilevel information encryption.
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- Qingfang Mu
- Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing Technology, Institute of Materials and Clean Energy, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China.
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- Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing Technology, Institute of Materials and Clean Energy, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China.
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- Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing Technology, Institute of Materials and Clean Energy, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China.
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- Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing Technology, Institute of Materials and Clean Energy, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China.
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- Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing Technology, Institute of Materials and Clean Energy, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China.
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- School of Science, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250353, China.
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- Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing Technology, Institute of Materials and Clean Energy, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China.
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates (South China University of Technology), Guangzhou 510640, China
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