Intense Circularly Polarized Fluorescence and Room-Temperature Phosphorescence in Carbon Dots/Chiral Helical Polymer Composite Films.

Ma, Shuo; Ma, Huanyu; Yang, Kai; Tan, Zhan'ao; Zhao, Biao; Deng, Jianping · ACS Nano · 2023

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Chiral carbon dots (C-dots) with a circularly polarized fluorescence (CPF) property have attracted tremendous attention due to their significant applications in chiral optoelectronics and theranostics. However, constructing circularly polarized room-temperature phosphorescent (CPRTP) C-dots remains a great challenge. Herein, a strategy is established to achieve efficient CPF and CPRTP emissions in C-dots/chiral helical polymer bilayer composite film. Taking advantage of the chiral filter effect of chiral helical polymer, intense CPF and CPRTP emissions with large dissymmetric factors up to 1.4 × 10<sup>-1</sup> and 1.2 × 10<sup>-2</sup> are respectively obtained, even though there is only a simple interface contact between the C-dots layer and the chiral helical polymer layer. More importantly, white-color CPF emission and multiple information display and encryption are further realized based on the prepared chiral luminescent composite films.