This invention discloses a color-tunable room-temperature phosphorescent
carbon dot composite material based on
minoxidil, its preparation method, and its applications. The
composite material is synthesized in situ through a one-step
thermal treatment of the clinical
drug minoxidil (MND) and
boric acid (BA) in an aqueous phase.
Minoxidil, as a carboxyl-free aminopyrimidine molecule, partially forms
nitrogen-
doped carbon dots during
pyrolysis, while some exist in an incompletely carbonized molecular state. Both are firmly anchored in a BA-derived rigid
borosilicate glass matrix via B–N covalent bonds, effectively suppressing nonradiative transitions of triplet excitons. By controlling the
doping amount of
minoxidil (preferably an MND:BA
mass ratio of 1:60 to 1:3), the phosphorescent emission color of the material can be continuously tunable from blue to green, achieving a maximum
photoluminescence quantum yield of 20.9% and a room-temperature phosphorescent lifetime of up to 1.43 seconds. This
composite material has significant application value in fields such as multi-level dynamic information
encryption, time-resolved anti-counterfeiting, and intelligent optical devices.