Recent Advances in Room Temperature Phosphorescence Metal-Organic Hybrids: Structures, Properties And Applications.

Metal-organic hybrid (MOH) materials with room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) have drawn numerous attentions in recent years due to their superior RTP properties of high phosphorescence efficiency and ultralong emission lifetime. Great achievement has been realized in developing MOH materials with high-performance RTP, but a systematic study on MOH materials with RTP feature is lacking. In this review, we highlighted recent advances in metal-organic hybrid RTP materials. The molecular packing, the photophysical properties and their applications of metal-organic hybrid RTP materials were discussed in detail. Metal-organic hybrid RTP materials can be divided into six parts: coordination polymers, metal organic frameworks (MOFs), metal-halide hybrids, organic ionic crystals, organic ionic polymers, and organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites. These RTP materials have been successfully applied in time-resolved data encryption, fingerprint recognition, information logic gate, X-ray image and photo-memory. This review not only provides the basic principle of designing RTP metal-organic hybrids, but also propounds the research prospect of RTP metal-organic hybrids in the future. This review offers many effective strategies for developing metal-organic hybrids with excellent RTP properties, thus satisfying the practical applications. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.