Aggregation‐induced emission: new vistas at the aggregate level

Z Zhao, H Zhang, JWY Lam… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aggregation‐induced emission (AIE) describes a photophysical phenomenon in which
molecular aggregates exhibit stronger emission than the single molecules. Over the course …

Aggregate science: from structures to properties

H Zhang, Z Zhao, AT Turley, L Wang… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular science entails the study of structures and properties of materials at the level of
single molecules or small interacting complexes of molecules. Moving beyond single …

Through-space interaction of tetraphenylethylene: what, where, and how

J Liu, H Zhang, L Hu, J Wang, JWY Lam… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Electronic conjugation through covalent bonds is generally considered as the basis for the
electronic transition of organic luminescent materials. Tetraphenylethylene (TPE), an …

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 …

Through-space interactions in clusteroluminescence

H Zhang, BZ Tang - Jacs Au, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conventional π-conjugated luminophores suffer from problems such as emission
quenching, biotoxicity, environmental pollution, etc. The emerging nonconjugated and …

[HTML][HTML] Secondary through-space interactions facilitated single-molecule white-light emission from clusteroluminogens

J Zhang, P Alam, S Zhang, H Shen, L Hu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Clusteroluminogens refer to some non-conjugated molecules that show visible light and
unique electronic properties with through-space interactions due to the formation of …

[HTML][HTML] An unexpected dual-emissive luminogen with tunable aggregation-induced emission and enhanced chiroptical property

X Zhang, H Liu, G Zhuang, S Yang, P Du - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
In the literature, organic materials with both aggregation-induced emission (AIE) and
aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) effects that can emit with multiple bands both in the …

Constitutional isomerization enables bright NIR‐II AIEgen for brain‐inflammation imaging

S Liu, C Chen, Y Li, H Zhang, J Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The shortage of high quantum yield (QY) organic fluorophores in the second near‐infrared
window (NIR‐II) has become a bottleneck in bioimaging field. Now, a simple strategy is …

Journey of aggregation-induced emission research

Z He, C Ke, BZ Tang - Acs Omega, 2018 - ACS Publications
Highly efficient luminescent materials in solid states are promising candidates for the
development of organic optoelectrical materials and devices and chemical and biological …

Excited-state odd–even effect in through-space interactions

Z Xiong, J Zhang, JZ Sun, H Zhang… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The odd–even effect is a fantastic phenomenon in nature, which has been applied in diverse
fields such as organic self-assembled monolayers and liquid crystals. Currently, the origin of …