Research on Room-Temperature Phosphorescence Polymer Materials
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 January 2026 | Viewed by 4
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Dear Colleagues,
In view of polymer-based room-temperature phosphorescent (RTP) materials’ potential applications, due to their better processability, high flexibility, and large-scale production capabilities, we are delighted to open a new Special Issue entitled “Research on Room-Temperature Phosphorescent Polymer Materials”.
Polymer-based room-temperature phosphorescent (RTP) materials have attracted considerable attention in the past few decades due to their advantages, such as easy processing, good flexibility, and low toxicity. Lots of studies have made a great effort to develop RTP materials possessing excellent luminescent performance, including a long lifetime and high brightness. In spite of this, there are some unexplored fields and great challenges, such as achieving long-lived RTP systems or even ultra-long-lived RTP emissions, due to the strong non-radiative decay caused by the quenching of long-lived triplet states via thermal vibrations, oxygen, and other factors, as well as intersystem crossing (ISC), stability, and repeatability.
This Special Issue of Polymers will cover a broad range of research activities, such as polymer structural design, synthetic methods (chemical or physical approaches), phosphorescent properties, and deep insights into action mechanisms and applications. In addition, review papers featuring progress in a particular area are welcomed. This Special Issue aims to collect recent findings and comprehensive reviews from experts in this very active field of research, and will hopefully be a useful source of information for researchers.
Dr. Lingyan Liu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- room-temperature phosphorescent (RTP) materials
- polymer-based
- long-lived
- emissions
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