Nonconventional luminophores: characteristics, advancements and perspectives

S Tang, T Yang, Z Zhao, T Zhu, Q Zhang… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Nonconventional luminophores devoid of remarkable conjugates have attracted
considerable attention due to their unique luminescence behaviors, updated luminescence …

Clusterization-triggered emission: Uncommon luminescence from common materials

H Zhang, Z Zhao, PR McGonigal, R Ye, S Liu… - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract π-Conjugated chromophores have been investigated for many years and
successful theoretical models have been developed to explain their photophysical …

Self-assembling peptide semiconductors

K Tao, P Makam, R Aizen, E Gazit - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND The increasing demand for environmentally friendly organic
semiconductors that can be easily fabricated and tuned has inspired scientists to design self …

Crosslink‐enhanced emission effect on luminescence in polymers: advances and perspectives

S Tao, S Zhu, T Feng, C Zheng, B Yang - Angewandte Chemie, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The crosslink‐enhanced emission effect was first proposed to explore the strong
luminescence of nonconjugated polymer dots possessing only either non‐emissive or …

Non-traditional intrinsic luminescence: inexplicable blue fluorescence observed for dendrimers, macromolecules and small molecular structures lacking traditional …

DA Tomalia, B Klajnert-Maculewicz… - Progress in Polymer …, 2019 - Elsevier
This article reviews activities related to a new photoluminescence phenomenon involving
inexplicable blue fluorescence emissions first observed in simple aliphatic amines and poly …

Clusterization-triggered emission (CTE): one for all, all for one

P Liao, J Huang, Y Yan, BZ Tang - Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
One for all and all for one, hand in hand turns the light on. Clusterization-triggered emission
(CTE) is a photophysical phenomenon that has attracted increased attention in recent years …

Generating circularly polarized luminescence from clusterization‐triggered emission using solid phase molecular self-assembly

P Liao, S Zang, T Wu, H Jin, W Wang, J Huang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Purely-organic clusterization‐triggered emission (CTE) has displayed promising abilities in
bioimaging, chemical sensing, and multicolor luminescence. However, it remains absent in …

Prevalent intrinsic emission from nonaromatic amino acids and poly (amino acids)

X Chen, W Luo, H Ma, Q Peng, WZ Yuan… - Science China …, 2018 - Springer
Nonaromatic amino acids are generally believed to be nonemissive, owing to their lack of
apparently remarkable conjugation within individual molecules. Here we report the intrinsic …

Bioinspired fluorescent dipeptide nanoparticles for targeted cancer cell imaging and real-time monitoring of drug release

Z Fan, L Sun, Y Huang, Y Wang, M Zhang - Nature nanotechnology, 2016 - nature.com
Peptide nanostructures are biodegradable and are suitable for many biomedical
applications. However, to be useful imaging probes, the limited intrinsic optical properties of …

Near UV-Visible electronic absorption originating from charged amino acids in a monomeric protein

S Prasad, I Mandal, S Singh, A Paul, B Mandal… - Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Electronic absorption spectra of proteins are primarily characterized over the ultraviolet
region (185–320 nm) of the electromagnetic spectrum. While recent studies on peptide …