Aggregation-induced emission (AIE), life and health

H Wang, Q Li, P Alam, H Bai, V Bhalla, MR Bryce… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Light has profoundly impacted modern medicine and healthcare, with numerous
luminescent agents and imaging techniques currently being used to assess health and treat …

Molecularly Engineered Room-Temperature Phosphorescence for Biomedical Application: From the Visible toward Second Near-Infrared Window

B Chang, J Chen, J Bao, T Sun, Z Cheng - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Phosphorescence, characterized by luminescent lifetimes significantly longer than that of
biological autofluorescence under ambient environment, is of great value for biomedical …

Aggregation-induced emission nanoparticles for single near-infrared light-triggered photodynamic and photothermal antibacterial therapy

W Wang, F Wu, Q Zhang, N Zhou, M Zhang, T Zheng… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Phototheranostics is a potential area for precision medicine, which has received increasing
attention for antibacterial applications. Integrating all phototheranostic modalities in a single …

Microenvironment‐Activatable Probe for Precise NIR‐II Monitoring and Synergistic Immunotherapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Y Zhang, D Liu, W Chen, Y Tao, W Li… - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) represents an insidious autoimmune inflammatory disorder that
severely lowers the life quality by progressively destructing joint functions and eventually …

A Self‐Reporting Fluorescent Salicylaldehyde–Chlorambucil Conjugate as a Type‐II ICD Inducer for Cancer Vaccines

M Zhang, X **, M Gao, Y Zhang… - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Immunogenic cell death (ICD) can activate the anticancer immune response and is highly
attractive to improve cancer treatment efficacy. ICD is closely related to endoplasmic …

Engineering precise sequence-defined polymers for advanced functions

Q Shi, Z Deng, M Hou, X Hu, S Liu - Progress in Polymer Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Unlike natural macromolecules (eg, nucleic acids and proteins) possessing precisely
defined molar mass, chain sequence, chirality, and topology, synthetic polymers are typically …

Pyrene-based AIE active materials for bioimaging and theranostics applications

M Shellaiah, KW Sun - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) is a unique research topic and property that can lead to
a wide range of applications, including cellular imaging, theranostics, analyte quantitation …

Versatile organic fluorescent probes for visualizing the dynamics of lipid droplets

M Cao, Y Liu, C **ang, G Zheng, Q **ong… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2025 - Elsevier
Lipid droplets (LDs) have recently garnered significant attention due to their pivotal roles in
life and diseases. Thus, seeking suitable tools to visualize the dynamics of LDs and reveal …

Afterglow bio-applications by utilizing triplet excited states of organic materials

Y Fan, Q Li, Z Li - Science China Chemistry, 2023 - Springer
Organic room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) materials with persistent afterglow
exhibit good biocompatibility, high signal to noise ratio and time resolved imaging …

Mitochondria-Targeting AIEgens as Pyroptosis Inducers for Boosting Type-I Photodynamic Therapy of Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Y Peng, R Mo, M Yang, H **e, F Ma, Z Ding, S Wu… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The development of a photosensitizer (PS) that induces pyroptosis could be a star for
photodynamic therapy (PDT), particularly with type-I PSs that produce reactive oxygen …