Single-component multicolor luminescence, particularly phosphorescence materials are highly attractive both in numerous applications and in-depth understanding the light-emission processes, but formidable challenges still exist for preparing such materials. Herein, a very facile approach is reported to synthesize carbon dots (CDs) (named MP-CDs) that exhibit multicolor fluorescence (FL), and more remarkably, multicolor long-lived room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) under ambient conditions. The FL and RTP colors of the CDs powder are observed to change from blue to green and cyan to yellow, respectively, with the excitation wavelength shifting from 254 to 420 nm. Further studies demonstrate that the multicolor emissions can be attributed to the existence of multiple emitting centers in the CDs and the relatively higher reaction temperature plays a critical role for achieving RTP. Given the unique optical properties, a preliminary application of MP-CDs in advanced anti-counterfeiting is presented. This study not only proposes a strategy to prepare photo-stimulated multicolor RTP materials, but also reveals great potentials of CDs in exploiting novel optical materials with unique properties.
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