Monodisperse spherical Ag+ doped Cs2KBiCl6 nanocrystals： utilizing steric hindrance engineering for inkjet printing of anti-counterfeiting patterns

Anti-counterfeiting is one of the critical application fields of luminescent materials. Nanocrystal luminescent materials are more suitable for anti-counterfeiting applications because they are tiny and more conducive to patterning. The preparation of monodisperse and spherical lead-free perovskite nanocrystals by a propagable method is a hot topic in anti-counterfeiting materials. In this work, monodisperse spherical Ag+ doped Cs2KBiCl6 nanocrystals with an average diameter of 3.511 nm were prepared by using the propagable ligand-assisted reprecipitation method at room temperature, attributed to steric hindrance engineering with increasing the ligand size. Due to the lattice distortion caused by doping relaxing the transition prohibition, excited by 365nm ultraviolet light, the nanocrystals exhibit orange emission peaking at 600nm, which is related to the transition recombination of Bi3+ (1S0→3P1), and the maximum photoluminescence quantum yield is 3.80%. A printable ink is prepared by combining the nanocrystals with PDMS adhesive and its curing agent, which can be used for inkjet printing of anti-counterfeiting patterns.