Aggregation-induced emission: together we shine, united we soar!

J Mei, NLC Leung, RTK Kwok, JWY Lam… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
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 …

Fluorescence based explosive detection: from mechanisms to sensory materials

X Sun, Y Wang, Y Lei - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The detection of explosives is one of the current pressing concerns in global security. In the
past few decades, a large number of emissive sensing materials have been developed for …

AIE polymers: Synthesis and applications

R Hu, A Qin, BZ Tang - Progress in Polymer Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Organic luminescent materials with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) feature have
attracted great attention in various fields because of their unique properties. Compared to …

AIE macromolecules: syntheses, structures and functionalities

R Hu, NLC Leung, BZ Tang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Macromolecules with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) attributes are a class of
luminescent materials that display enhanced emission when they are aggregated. They …

Stiff and tough PDMS-MMT layered nanocomposites visualized by AIE luminogens

J Peng, AP Tomsia, L Jiang, BZ Tang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is a widely used soft material that exhibits excellent stability
and transparency. But the difficulty of fine-tuning its Young's modulus and its low toughness …

Tetraphenylethene: a versatile AIE building block for the construction of efficient luminescent materials for organic light-emitting diodes

Z Zhao, JWY Lam, BZ Tang - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Luminescent materials with efficient solid-state emissions are important for the advancement
of optoelectronics. Recently, a new class of propeller-like luminogenic molecules with …

Effects of substitution with donor–acceptor groups on the properties of tetraphenylethene trimer: aggregation-induced emission, solvatochromism, and …

XY Shen, YJ Wang, E Zhao, WZ Yuan… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Luminescent materials with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) property have attracted
considerable interests for their promising applications in light-emitting and display devices …

Multicomponent syntheses of functional chromophores

L Levi, TJJ Müller - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Multicomponent reactions are a valuable tool for the synthesis of functional π-electron
systems. Two different approaches can be taken into account for accessing the target …

Recent advances in the development of highly luminescent semiconducting polymer dots and nanoparticles for biological imaging and medicine

J Yu, Y Rong, CT Kuo, XH Zhou, DT Chiu - Analytical chemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
Semiconducting polymer dots (Pdots) have been developed as a brightly emissive
nanoprobe for biological analysis and imaging, as well as for diagnosis and drug delivery …

Optical sensors for water and humidity and their further applications

S Mishra, AK Singh - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Detection of trace quantities of water in laboratory and industrial processes is very crucial.
Monitoring humidity is of vital importance in maintaining ambient atmosphere in places like …