A Glassy Hydrogel Platform for Color-Tunable Room-Temperature Phosphorescence via Unmodified Aromatic Compounds Encapsulation and Arbitrary Shape Programming.

Nano Lett

Key Laboratory of Special Functional and Smart Polymer Materials of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China.

Published: August 2025


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Realizing full-color room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) under aqueous conditions remains a significant challenge due to the inherent difficulty of stabilizing hydrophobic phosphors within water-based matrices, let alone for unmodified commercial hydrophobic aromatic compounds. In this work, we introduce a versatile glassy hydrogel platform engineered through a solvent exchange-induced nanoscale phase separation strategy, which enables the stable encapsulation of various commercial aromatic compounds within a rigid polymer network. The resulting hydrogels exhibit tunable full-color RTP with long-lived lifetimes, enhanced emission underwater, and outstanding mechanical robustness. In addition to their plastic-like rigidity, these glassy RTP hydrogels display shape-memory characteristics and allow for programmable 2/3D structural reconfiguration. Notably, they facilitate multidimensional information encryption through multicolor triplet-to-singlet Förster resonance energy transfer (TS-FRET) and enable high-resolution spatial patterning. This work offers a general strategy for constructing RTP hydrogels and hydrogel-derived plastics, opening promising avenues for advanced anticounterfeiting, optical sensing, and underwater photonic applications.

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