Circularly polarized luminescent (CPL) materials are currently drawing ever-increasing interest. This contribution reports the first success in simply combining chiral helical substituted polyacetylenes (HSPAs) with achiral luminophores to fabricate CPL materials demonstrating a high dissymmetry factor (g lum ) up to 10 −1 , despite neither covalent nor noncovalent interactions occurring between the two components. Circularly polarized scattering and fluorescence-selective absorption mechanisms are proposed for the generation of CPL, and a "matching rule" is further established for selecting chiral polymers and achiral luminophores for the purpose. Taking advantage of the circularly polarized scattering effect, full-color tunable CPL materials are prepared from the combination of achiral fluorescent dyes and chiral HSPAs. Following the fluorescence-selective absorption mechanism, functional composite films with on−off and switchable CPL performance are fabricated. Also, remarkably, the g lum value in the prepared materials can reach up to +0.323. The present study provides a simple, powerful, and universal strategy for constructing novel CPL materials.
Graphene‐based aerogels have been widely studied for their high porosity, good compressibility, and electrical conductivity as piezoresistive sensors. However, the fabrication of graphene aerogel sensors with good mechanical properties and excellent sensing properties simultaneously remains a challenge. Therefore, in this study, a novel nanofiber reinforced graphene aerogel (aPANF/GA) which has a 3D interconnected hierarchical microstructure with surface‐treated PAN nanofiber as a support scaffold throughout the entire graphene network is designed. This 3D interconnected microporous aPANF/GA aerogel combines an excellent compressive stress of 43.50 kPa and a high piezoresistive sensitivity of 28.62 kPa−1 as well as a wide range (0–14 kPa) linear sensitivity. When aPANF/GA is used as a piezoresistive sensor, the compression resilience is excellent, the response time is fast at about 37 ms at 3 Pa, and the structural stability and sensing durability are good after 2600 cycles. Indeed, the current signal value is 91.57% of the initial signal value at 20% compressive strain. Furthermore, the assembled sensors can monitor the real time movement of throat, wrist pulse, fingers, wrist, and knee joints of the human body at good sensitivity. These excellent features enable potential applications in health detection.
Chiral perovskites with circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) performance have attracted tremendous attention. This contribution reports a convenient and universal strategy for constructing chiral helical polymer/perovskite hybrid nanofibers with outstanding CPL properties. The hybrid nanofibers are prepared through a one-step electrospinning method in which chiral helical polyacetylenes, perovskite nanocrystals, and polyacrylonitrile serve as a handed-selective fluorescence filter, fluorescent source, and electrospinning matrix, respectively. Specially, perovskite nanocrystals are in situ formed during the electrospinning process, which avoids the tedious process for preparing and purifying perovskites. The prepared hybrid nanofibers all exhibit good long-time stability in air, owing to the effective protection effect of polymer matrix. More importantly, intense CPL emissions with high dissymmetry factor up to 10 −2 level are obtained in the hybrid nanofibers. Furthermore, the emission color of CPL can be easily tuned by adjusting the precursors of perovskites. This work provides an efficient technique toward various kinds of CPL-active perovskite nanomaterials for both scientific research and future practical applications.
A series of full-color circularly polarized luminescence (CPL)-active materials are fabricated by judiciously combining multifarious chiral nanoarchitectures with achiral fluorescence dyes. The investigated nanoarchitectures include organic polymer nanofibers, organic−inorganic hybrid nanoflowers, and inorganic nanoflowers. The as-prepared chiral nanoarchitectures all can act as handed-selective fluorescence filters to powerfully transform unpolarized fluorescent light into circularly polarized luminescence. Also notable, no interaction is required between chiral and fluorescent components for achieving CPL emission. The present study provides a convenient and universal approach for preparing full-color CPL materials. Following the strategy, numerous chiroptical materials with CPL performance can be expected due to the abundant chiral matters and achiral fluorophores.
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