Light is of essential importance to the universe and humankind. Light has been, and
continues to be, one of the most fundamental and indispensable elements to life and society …

Conspectus Charged organic molecules, such as DNA, RNA, proteins, and polysaccharides,
are ubiquitous and indispensable in natural living systems, which possess specific …

Research on materials with pure organic room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) and
their application as organic single-molecule white light emitters is a hot area and relies on …

Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) materials show faint emission or even non-emission
when dissolved in good solvents but strong emission in the aggregate and/or solid states …

A novel single crystal, PyB, is produced in a high yield by the simple method of connecting a
pyrene unit and a rhodamine B moiety together. PyB shows multiple functions of …

Tetraphenylfuran (TPF) and its control molecule tetraphenylthiophene (TPT), which are
structurally similar to the aggregation-induced emission (AIE) active 2, 3, 4, 5 …

In recent years, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have been attracting ever more interest
owing to their fascinating structures and widespread applications. Among the optoelectronic …

Organic fluorophores with reversible emission switching behavior are promising materials
for applications in sensors, optical recording, security inks, and optoelectronics. A variety of …

Breakthrough innovations in light-emitting materials have opened new exciting avenues for
science and technology over the last few decades. Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) …

Reactivity based fluorescent probes have been widely investigated as a powerful and
noninvasive tool for disease diagnosis in recent years. β-Galactosidase (β-gal), one of the …