A universal strategy for multicolor organic circularly polarized afterglow materials with high dissymmetry factors

C Chenjia Yin (Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, Frontiers Science Center for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry Institute of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology Meilong Road 130, Shanghai 200237, China) S Siyu Sun (Xi’an Jiaotong University , , , ,) Z Zi-Ang Yan (Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, Frontiers Science Center for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry Institute of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology Meilong Road 130, Shanghai 200237, China) H Honglong Hu (Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, Frontiers Science Center for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry, Institute of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology) P Ping Jiang (Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, Frontiers Science Center for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry Institute of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology Meilong Road 130, Shanghai 200237, China) Z Zhuoran Xu (Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, Frontiers Science Center for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry, Institute of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology) H He Tian (Center of Electron Microscopy, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.) X Xiang Ma (Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Inorganic Oxygenated-Materials, College of Chemistry)

Abstract

Materials with pure organic circularly polarized afterglow (CPA) have attracted significant attention due to their spatiotemporal-resolved optical properties, yet achieving simultaneous high dissymmetry factor (glum) and multicolor ultralong emission remains a challenge. Here, we establish a universal energy transfer-photon coupling strategy to realize CPA spanning from blue to red with record-high glum (up to 1.90) and ultralong lifetimes (>6 s). Systematic characterization of nonchiral donor–acceptor systems (TP-BPEA, TP-Fluo, etc.) reveals the absence of ground-state chiral centers ( g CD ≈ 0) and orientation artifacts ( LD < 10 −7 ), confirming the key role of cholesteric liquid crystal polymer in chirality induction. This spatiotemporal synergy between energy transfer (wavelength modulation) and photonic engineering (polarization control) provides a framework for chiral photonic materials, with potential implications for multidimensional information encryption.

Article Details

Volume / Issue Vol. 122, Issue 18
Published May 06, 2025
ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher National Academy of Sciences

Authors (8)

C

Chenjia Yin

Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, Frontiers Science Center for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry Institute of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology Meilong Road 130, Shanghai 200237, China

S

Siyu Sun

Xi’an Jiaotong University , , , ,

Z

Zi-Ang Yan

Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, Frontiers Science Center for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry Institute of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology Meilong Road 130, Shanghai 200237, China

H

Honglong Hu

Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, Frontiers Science Center for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry, Institute of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology

P

Ping Jiang

Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, Frontiers Science Center for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry Institute of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology Meilong Road 130, Shanghai 200237, China

Z

Zhuoran Xu

Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, Frontiers Science Center for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry, Institute of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology

H

He Tian

Center of Electron Microscopy, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

X

Xiang Ma

Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Inorganic Oxygenated-Materials, College of Chemistry