Developing the structure–property relationship to design solid state multi-stimuli responsive materials and their potential applications in different fields

A fluorenylidene-acridane that becomes dark in color upon grinding – ground state mechanochromism by conformational change

(2018) Tsuyoshi Suzuki et al.   Chemical Science

Luminescent Mechanochromic 9-Anthryl Gold(I) Isocyanide Complex with an Emission Maximum at 900 nm after Mechanical Stimulation

(2017) Tomohiro Seki et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mechano- and Thermoresponsive Photoluminescent Supramolecular Polymer

(2017) Anna Lavrenova et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Multi-functional bis(alkynyl)gold(iii) N⁁C complexes with distinct mechanochromic luminescence and electroluminescence properties

(2017) Ben Yiu-Wing Wong et al.   Chemical Science

White-light emission from a single heavy atom-free molecule with room temperature phosphorescence, mechanochromism and thermochromism

(2017) Bingjia Xu et al.   Chemical Science

Piezochromism and hydrochromism through electron transfer: new stories for viologen materials

(2017) Qi Sui et al.   Chemical Science

Highly Sensitive Built-In Strain Sensors for Polymer Composites: Fluorescence Turn-On Response through Mechanochemical Activation

(2016) Zhong'an Li et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Mechanochromic Luminescence and Liquid Crystallinity of Molecular Copper Clusters

(2016) Brendan Huitorel et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

S···π, π–π, and C–H···π Contacts Regulate Solid State Fluorescence in Regioisomeric Bisthiazolylpyrenes

(2016) Shinaj K. Rajagopal et al.   CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN

A Screening Approach for the Discovery of Mechanochromic Gold(I) Isocyanide Complexes with Crystal-to-Crystal Phase Transitions

(2016) Tomohiro Seki et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Molecular Engineering of Mechanochromic Materials by Programmed C–H Arylation: Making a Counterpoint in the Chromism Trend

(2016) Jie Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Aggregation-Induced Emission: Lighting up Cells, Revealing Life!

(2016) Yi-Feng Wang et al.   Small

Achieving remarkable mechanochromism and white-light emission with thermally activated delayed fluorescence through the molecular heredity principle

(2016) Bingjia Xu et al.   Chemical Science

Conjugation-Induced Rigidity in Twisting Molecules: Filling the Gap Between Aggregation-Caused Quenching and Aggregation-Induced Emission

(2015) Gan Chen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Mechanoresponsive Luminescent Molecular Assemblies: An Emerging Class of Materials

(2015) Yoshimitsu Sagara et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

o-Carborane-Based Anthracene: A Variety of Emission Behaviors

(2015) Hirofumi Naito et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Aggregation-Induced Emission: Together We Shine, United We Soar!

(2015) Ju Mei et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Raman Detected Sensing of Volatile Organic Compounds by Vapochromic Cu[AuX2(CN)2]2 (X = Cl, Br) Coordination Polymer Materials

(2015) Jeffrey S. Ovens et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Fluorescence Aggregation-Caused Quenching versus Aggregation-Induced Emission: A Visual Teaching Technology for Undergraduate Chemistry Students

(2015) Xiaofeng Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Very bright mechanoluminescence and remarkable mechanochromism using a tetraphenylethene derivative with aggregation-induced emission

(2015) Bingjia Xu et al.   Chemical Science

Interconvertible multiple photoluminescence color of a gold(i) isocyanide complex in the solid state: solvent-induced blue-shifted and mechano-responsive red-shifted photoluminescence

(2015) Tomohiro Seki et al.   Chemical Science

D–A Solid Emitter with Crowded and Remarkably Twisted Conformations Exhibiting Multifunctionality and Multicolor Mechanochromism

(2014) Yongyang Gong et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Polymorphic Copper Iodide Clusters: Insights into the Mechanochromic Luminescence Properties

(2014) Quentin Benito et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Columnar Liquid Crystallinity and Mechanochromism in Cationic Platinum(II) Complexes

(2014) Markrete Krikorian et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Twisting and piezochromism of phenylene-ethynylenes with aromatic interactions between side chains and main chains

(2014) R. H. Pawle et al.   Chemical Science

Polymorphism-dependent and piezochromic luminescence based on molecular packing of a conjugated molecule

(2014) Ruohan Li et al.   Chemical Science

Design amphiphilic dipolar π-systems for stimuli-responsive luminescent materials using metastable states

(2014) Shiki Yagai et al.   Nature Communications

Synergy between Twisted Conformation and Effective Intermolecular Interactions: Strategy for Efficient Mechanochromic Luminogens with High Contrast

(2013) Wang Zhang Yuan et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Controlling Mechano- and Seeding-Triggered Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Phase Transition: Molecular Domino with a Disconnection of Aurophilic Bonds

(2013) Tomohiro Seki et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Tailor-Made Highly Luminescent and Ambipolar Transporting Organic Mixed Stacked Charge-Transfer Crystals: An Isometric Donor–Acceptor Approach

(2013) Sang Kyu Park et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Multicolor fluorescence and electroluminescence of an ICT-type organic solid tuned by modulating the accepting nature of the central core

(2013) Kai Wang et al.   Chemical Science

A Twisting Donor-Acceptor Molecule with an Intercrossed Excited State for Highly Efficient, Deep-Blue Electroluminescence

(2012) Weijun Li et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Isothermally Reversible Fluorescence Switching of a Mechanochromic Perylene Bisimide Dye

(2012) Norihiro Mizoshita et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Unique Piezochromic Fluorescence Behavior of Dicyanodistyrylbenzene Based Donor-Acceptor-Donor Triad: Mechanically Controlled Photo-Induced Electron Transfer (eT) in Molecular Assemblies

(2012) Min Sang Kwon et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Recent advances in organic mechanofluorochromic materials

(2012) Zhenguo Chi et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Reversible Switching of the Emission of Diphenyldibenzofulvenes by Thermal and Mechanical Stimuli

(2011) Xiaoliang Luo et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Triarylboron-Based Fluorescent Thermometer: Sensitive Over a Wide Temperature Range

(2011) Jiao Feng et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Aggregation-induced emission

(2011) Yuning Hong et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Role of Molecular Packing in Determining Solid-State Optical Properties of π-Conjugated Materials

(2011) Shinto Varghese et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Fluorescence Behavior of Dyes in Thin Films of Various Polymers

(2011) Atsuomi Shundo et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Multistimuli Two-Color Luminescence Switching via Different Slip-Stacking of Highly Fluorescent Molecular Sheets

(2010) Seong-Jun Yoon et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Polymorphism and Reversible Mechanochromic Luminescence for Solid-State Difluoroboron Avobenzone

(2010) Guoqing Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Dynamic Crystals: Visually Detected Mechanochemical Changes in the Luminescence of Gold and Other Transition-Metal Complexes

(2009) Alan L. Balch   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Force-induced activation of covalent bonds in mechanoresponsive polymeric materials

(2009) Douglas A. Davis et al.   NATURE

Mechanically induced luminescence changes in molecular assemblies

(2009) Yoshimitsu Sagara et al.   Nature Chemistry