Smart stimuli‐responsive persistent luminescence materials, combining the various
advantages and frontier applications prospects, have gained booming progress in recent …

Traditional cooling and heating systems in residential buildings account for more than 15%
of global electricity consumption and 10% of global emissions of greenhouse gases …

X‐ray imaging has received sustained attention for healthcare diagnostics and
nondestructive inspection. To develop photonic materials with tunable photophysical …

The trivalent lanthanides have been broadly utilized as emitting centers in persistent
luminescence (PersL) materials due to their wide emitting spectral range, which thus attract …

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Ultra‐long room temperature phosphorescence (ULRTP) materials show valuable
applications in encryption, biological imaging, and many other fields. Amazingly, the …

Persistent phosphors are highly explored materials due to their diverse applications
(including anti-counterfeiting, information and data storage, photocatalysis, sensing, and …

Glow‐in‐the‐dark materials have been around for a long time. While formerly materials had
to be mixed with radioactive elements to achieve a sufficiently long and bright afterglow …

Our society is indebted to the numerous inventors and scientists who helped bring about the
incredible technological advances in modern society that we all take for granted. The …

Multifunctional phosphors with photochromism and persistent luminescent (PersL)
properties have attracted increasing interest owing to the capability of absorbing the photon …