“…32,43,84,88 It should be noted that, however, in order to produce room temperature afterglow from CDs, matrices have usually been utilized to immobilize the materials and thus to stabilize the produced T 1 species, so as to make radiative transitions possible from the spin-forbidden process (i.e., from T 1 to S 0 ). 31,34,35,39,43,61,62,84,86,87,[89][90][91][92][93][94][95][96][97][98][99][100][101] More interestingly, self-protective CDs (without matrix immobilization) Fig. 1 The schematic illustration of the emissive processes of fluorescence (a), phosphorescence (b), and delayed fluorescence (c).…”