Organic room-temperature phosphorescent (RTP) materials exhibiting reversible changes in optical properties upon exposure to external stimuli have shown great potential in diverse optoelectronic fields. Particularly, dynamic manipulation of response behaviors for such materials is of fundamental significance, but it remains a formidable challenge. Herein, a series of RTP polymers were prepared by incorporating phosphorescent rotors into polymer backbone, and these materials show color-tunable persistent luminescence upon excitation at different wavelengths. Experimental results and theoretical calculations revealed that the various molecular conformations of monomers are responsible for the excitation wavelength-dependent (Ex-De) RTP behavior. Impressively, after gaining insights into the underlying mechanism, dynamic control of Ex-De RTP behavior was achieved through thermal energy driven molecular rotations of monomers. Eventually, we demonstrate the practical applications of these amorphous polymers in anti-counterfeiting areas. These findings open new opportunities for the control of response behaviors of smart-responsive RTP materials through external stimuli rather than conventional covalent modification method.

1D/2D heterostructures, in particular those that consist of a 1D nanorod core and a 2D nanoplate (NPL) shell, enable the combination of the merits and mitigation of the demerits of distinct dimensionalities into one system, providing a new platform to study their intriguing properties. However, there is still lack of effective strategies to rationally integrate the components with different dimensionalities together. Here, we report a general seeded growth method for the construction of epitaxial 1D/2D heterostructures with a variety of compositional combinations, in which ordered 2D NPL arrays are vertically grown along the c-axis of 1D wurtzite nanomaterials, including II− VI and I−III−VI 2 semiconductors. The loading densities of NPLs on the 1D nanomaterials are very high, up to 280 piece/μm. The same crystal structure of the grown NPLs and 1D seeds ensures the epitaxial growth relationship between these two materials. It is found that the secondary 2D growth mode is a kinetic-dominated process, in addition to the effect of the anionic sulfur precursor. The as-prepared 1D/2D CdSe/CdS heterostructures exhibit enhanced activity for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution compared to that of the single-component CdSe NRs and CdS/CdS homostructures. This work greatly enriches the variety and architecture of the available heterostructures and also provides a toolbox for exploring their promising applications.

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are indicative of tumorigenesis, metastasis, and recurrence; however, it is still a great challenge to efficiently analyze the extremely rare CTCs in peripheral blood. Herein, a novel nanobiointerface integrating high affinities of arrayed silver nanorods (Ag NRs) and doubletetrahedral DNA (DTDN) probes by a clever strategy is proposed for the efficient capture, highly sensitive detection, and nondestructive release of CTCs. Under the optimal conditions, the DTDN-probe-functionalized Ag NRs nanobiointerface can capture 90.2% of SGC-7901 cells in PBS, and the capture efficiency is 2.8 times and 50 times those of a DTDN-probe-functionalized Ag film and unfunctionalized Ag NRs, respectively, benefiting from the nanorough interface of the Ag NRs array and multivalent recognition of the DTDN probe. In addition, 93.4% of cells was released via Zn 2+ -assisted DNAzyme cleavage, and the viability of the postreleased CTCs is about 98.0%. The potential practicality of the nanobiointerface for testing CTCs in blood was further characterized by spiking SGC-7901 cells in leukocytes collected from human blood, and the results show that 83.8% capture efficiency, 91.2% release efficiency, and single-cell detection limit were achieved, which indicates that the nanobiointerface has great potential in clinical applications for reliable CTC analyses.