Tunable Afterglow System Controllable Photoenergy Storage and Release.

Afterglow luminescence has garnered significant attention due to its excellent optical properties. Currently, most afterglow phenomena are produced by persistent luminescence following cessation of the excitation light. However, it remains a challenge to control the afterglow luminescence process due to rapid photophysical or photochemical changes.

Butterfly-Inspired Tri-State Photonic Crystal Composite Film for Multilevel Information Encryption and Anti-Counterfeiting.

Counterfeiting is a worldwide issue and has long troubled legitimate businesses, while nowadays anti-counterfeiting materials and technology are still insufficient to combat the escalating counterfeit behaviors. Inspired by hindwing structure of Troides magellanus, a new kind of anti-counterfeiting material taking advantage of both physical and chemical structures to display multiple optical states is prepared. The chemical units (luminescent lanthanide) are blended with physical units (monodispersed colloidal particles) and mediating molecules, which are then assembled into a photonic crystal structure at room temperature in less than 10 s through a new assembly technique called molecule-mediated shear-induced assembly technique (MSAT).

Ultra-long Near-infrared Repeatable Photochemical Afterglow Mediated by Reversible Storage of Singlet Oxygen for Information Encryption.

Photochemical afterglow systems have drawn considerable attention in recent years due to their regulable photophysical properties and charming application potential. However, conventional photochemical afterglow suffered from its unrepeatability due to the consumption of energy cache units as afterglow photons are emitted. Here we report a novel strategy to realize repeatable photochemical afterglow (RPA) through the reversible storage of O by 2-pyridones.