Citation: Yanting HUANG, Hua XIANG, Mei PAN. Construction and application of multi-component systems based on luminous copper nanoclusters[J]. Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, ;2024, 40(11): 2075-2090. doi: 10.11862/CJIC.20240196 shu

Construction and application of multi-component systems based on luminous copper nanoclusters

Yanting HUANG ¹ ,
Hua XIANG ^2,, ,
Mei PAN ^1,,

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School of Chemistry, IGCME, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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Guangdong Province Engineering Research Center of Anti?counterfeiting Materials and Design for Packaging and Printing, Guangdong Industry Polytechnic University, Guangzhou 510300, China

Corresponding author: Hua XIANG, 873312555@qq.com Mei PAN, panm@mail.sysu.edu.cn
Received Date: 28 May 2024
Revised Date: 17 August 2024

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Copper nanoclusters (Cu NCs) have made remarkable progress in the field of luminescence due to their excellent photophysical properties. However, due to the easy oxidation of copper, it is difficult to obtain Cu NCs with stable structure and high-intensity luminescence. It is one of the most feasible strategies to combine Cu NCs with other components to construct multi-component systems to improve stability and luminescence performance. Such systems can not only effectively make up for the defects of Cu NCs, but also realize the functional diversification of the luminous properties, which is conducive to the practical application of luminous materials. Based on this, this review will give a brief survey of the current study in this field, with first an introduction to the basic structure and effects on the luminescence of Cu NCs, and then a summary of the current strategies and applications of luminous multi-component systems constructed from Cu NCs.
- copper nanocluster,
- multi‐component,
- photoluminescence
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