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 …

Aggregation behaviour of pyrene-based luminescent materials, from molecular design and optical properties to application

X Feng, X Wang, C Redshaw, BZ Tang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular aggregates are self-assembled from multiple molecules via weak intermolecular
interactions, and new chemical and physical properties can emerge compared to their …

Supramolecular coordination cages for artificial photosynthesis and synthetic photocatalysis

R Ham, CJ Nielsen, S Pullen, JNH Reek - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Because sunlight is the most abundant energy source on earth, it has huge potential for
practical applications ranging from sustainable energy supply to light driven chemistry. From …

Recent advances in n-type and ambipolar organic semiconductors and their multi-functional applications

Y Zhang, Y Wang, C Gao, Z Ni, X Zhang… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic semiconductors have received broad attention and research interest due to their
unique integration of semiconducting properties with structural tunability, intrinsic flexibiltiy …

Recent strategies to develop innovative photosensitizers for enhanced photodynamic therapy

TC Pham, VN Nguyen, Y Choi, S Lee, J Yoon - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
This review presents a robust strategy to design photosensitizers (PSs) for various species.
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a photochemical-based treatment approach that involves the …

Organic photosensitizers for antimicrobial phototherapy

VN Nguyen, Z Zhao, BZ Tang, J Yoon - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Microbial infectious diseases, especially those caused by new and antibiotic-resistant
pathogenic microbes, have become a significant threat to global human health. As an …

A photo-triggered self-accelerated nanoplatform for multifunctional image-guided combination cancer immunotherapy

X Kang, Y Zhang, J Song, L Wang, W Li, J Qi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Precise and efficient image-guided immunotherapy holds great promise for cancer
treatment. Here, we report a self-accelerated nanoplatform combining an aggregation …

Assembly and applications of macrocyclic-confinement-derived supramolecular organic luminescent emissions from cucurbiturils

H Nie, Z Wei, XL Ni, Y Liu - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cucurbit [n] urils (Q [n] s or CB [n] s), as a classical of artificial organic macrocyclic hosts,
were found to have excellent advantages in the fabricating of tunable and smart organic …

Stimulus-responsive room temperature phosphorescence materials with full-color tunability from pure organic amorphous polymers

D Li, J Yang, M Fang, BZ Tang, Z Li - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Achieving stimulus-responsive ultralong room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) in
organic materials especially with full-color tunable emissions is attractive and important but …

Twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) and twists beyond TICT: from mechanisms to rational designs of bright and sensitive fluorophores

C Wang, W Chi, Q Qiao, D Tan, Z Xu… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) mechanism has guided the development
of numerous bright and sensitive fluorophores. This review briefly overviews the history of …