Assembly and applications of macrocyclic-confinement-derived supramolecular organic luminescent emissions from cucurbiturils

H Nie, Z Wei, XL Ni, Y Liu - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cucurbit [n] urils (Q [n] s or CB [n] s), as a classical of artificial organic macrocyclic hosts,
were found to have excellent advantages in the fabricating of tunable and smart organic …

Aggregation behaviour of pyrene-based luminescent materials, from molecular design and optical properties to application

X Feng, X Wang, C Redshaw, BZ Tang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular aggregates are self-assembled from multiple molecules via weak intermolecular
interactions, and new chemical and physical properties can emerge compared to their …

BODIPY as a Multifunctional Theranostic Reagent in Biomedicine: Self‐Assembly, Properties, and Applications

HB Cheng, X Cao, S Zhang, K Zhang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The use of boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY) in biomedicine is reviewed. To open, its
synthesis and regulatory strategies are summarized, and inspiring cutting‐edge work in post …

Colloidal self-assembly approaches to smart nanostructured materials

Z Li, Q Fan, Y Yin - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Colloidal self-assembly refers to a solution-processed assembly of nanometer-/micrometer-
sized, well-dispersed particles into secondary structures, whose collective properties are …

Organic luminescent materials: the concentration on aggregates from aggregation‐induced emission

J Yang, M Fang, Z Li - Aggregate, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The research of organic luminescent materials in aggregate has drawn more and more
attention for their wide applications. To adjust the luminescent properties for aggregates, a …

Functional supramolecular polymeric networks: the marriage of covalent polymers and macrocycle-based host–guest interactions

D Xia, P Wang, X Ji, NM Khashab, JL Sessler… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Covalent polymers connected by non-covalent interactions constitute a fascinating set of
materials known as supramolecular polymer networks (SPNs). A key feature of SPNs is that …

Tailoring the photoluminescence of atomically precise nanoclusters

X Kang, M Zhu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Due to their atomically precise structures and intriguing chemical/physical properties, metal
nanoclusters are an emerging class of modular nanomaterials. Photo-luminescence (PL) is …

A cascade strategy boosting hydroxyl radical generation with aggregation-induced emission photosensitizers-albumin complex for photodynamic therapy

Y Li, D Zhang, Y Yu, L Zhang, L Li, L Shi, G Feng… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Effective photodynamic therapy (PDT) requires photosensitizers (PSs) to massively generate
type I reactive oxygen species (ROS) in a less oxygen-dependent manner in the hypoxia …

Smart transformable nanoparticles for enhanced tumor theranostics

J Chen, Z Jiang, YS Zhang, J Ding, X Chen - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The physical morphologies of nanoparticles, especially size and shape, always significantly
influence their biological behaviors. In the past, nanoparticles with constant physical …

Aggregation‐induced emission‐active gels: fabrications, functions, and applications

Z Li, X Ji, H Xie, BZ Tang - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Chromophores that exhibit aggregation‐induced emission (ie, aggregation‐induced
emission luminogens [AIEgens]) emit intense fluorescence in their aggregated states, but …