PL spectra were measured on an FL-4500 spectrofluorometer with the same optical density (OD) of ∼0.05. In these experiments, the NC solutions were prepared in DMF at a concentration of less than 1 mg mL–1.
Absolute quantum yields (QYs) were measured with dilute solutions of NCs (0.05 OD absorption at 445 nm) on a HORIBA FluoroMax-4P.
31P NMR spectra were acquired using a Bruker 600 Avance III spectrometer equipped with a Bruker BBO multinuclear probe (BrukerBioSpin, Rheinstetten, Germany). To achieve a sufficient signal-to-noise ratio, the 31P NMR spectra were recorded by collecting 1k scans with a recycle delay time of 5 s.
Electrospray ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (ESI-TOF-MS) measurements were performed on a MicrOTOF-QIII high-resolution mass spectrometer.