Article
Chemistry, Applied
Bin Zuo, Lian Liu, Xicheng Feng, Denghui Li, Wanfang Li, Mingxian Huang, Qinyue Deng
Summary: A novel fluorescent sensor based on triphenylamine was designed for the sensitive detection of trace cyanide anions, featuring a low detection limit and excellent anti-interference performance, suitable for a wide range of pH values.
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
He Jiang, Longyan Zhang, Lijie Xian, Zijie Wang, Jibiao Jin, Chao Zheng, Runfeng Chen
Summary: This study successfully developed high-luminescence molecules with AIE and dynamic self-adaptive resonance features, showing impressive photoluminescence characteristics and superior detection performance, providing important guidelines for the design of new-concept sensors with dynamically tuned optoelectronic properties for self-adaptive sensing.
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Zihua Li, Yusheng Zhou, Yuhan Cui, Guodong Liang
Summary: Efficient electrochemiluminescent (ECL) luminogens were synthesized and used to fabricate a solid-state ECL film with unique dual-potential ECL properties. The film showed bright ECL with high efficiency and was successfully applied for the sensitive detection of malachite green (MG) in a real fish tissue sample. The study provides a promising platform for the sensitive detection of MG in the food industry.
Review
Polymer Science
Ting Han, Lijie Liu, Dong Wang, Jinglei Yang, Ben Zhong Tang
Summary: MFP systems use sensitive fluorescent motifs to detect polymer chain events under mechanical stimuli, utilizing the aggregation-induced emission (AIE) effect to self-report their mechanical states and changes. Design principles include physically doping AIE luminogens into polymer matrix, chemically linking AIEgens in polymer backbones, and utilizing clusterization-triggered emission in polymers with nonconventional luminogens. The article discusses recent progress enabled by AIE process and addresses existing challenges in the field for future development.
MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Spectroscopy
Minglu Li, Hui Han, Shengmei Song, Shaomin Shuang, Chuan Dong
Summary: Fluorescent probes with different substituents show varying sensitivity and emission spectrum changes in detecting peroxynitrite. Among them, the ADB probe with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) process demonstrates good sensitivity for detecting peroxynitrite and can quantitatively detect ONOO- concentrations within 20 seconds.
SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Changhua Zhou, Xi Yang, Chunli Zhang, Shengmao Zhang, Pingyu Zhang
Summary: The formation of fluorescent CdSe/ZnS quantum dots (QDs) incorporated poly (styrene-co-maleic anhydride) spheres using a simple emulsification solvent evaporation strategy was reported. These QDs incorporated polymer nanospheres were suitable for immunoassays requiring nano-sized fluorescent labels. The carboxyl-functionalized nanospheres as fluorescent tags in LFIA system showed high sensitivity in assessing the level of C-reaction protein (CRP) for cardiovascular disease risk assessment.
SURFACES AND INTERFACES
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Gai-li Feng, Yi-chen Liu, Yan-ming Ji, Wei Zhou, Xia-fen Li, Min Hou, Jie-lei Gao, Yuan Zhang, Guo-wen Xing
Summary: In this study, a water-soluble AIEgen was self-assembled into fluorescent organic nanoparticles for specific sensing of SO2 in living hepatoma cells. The nanoparticles showed good selectivity, low detection limit and excellent photostability, suggesting their great potential for diagnosing SO2-related diseases in cell biology.
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Huilin Xie, Jingtian Zhang, Chao Chen, Feiyi Sun, Haixiang Liu, Xinyuan He, Kristy W. K. Lam, Zhao Li, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Guo-Qiang Zhang, Dan Ding, Ryan T. K. Kwok, Ben Zhong Tang
Summary: A luminogenic bioprobe TPE-DMAB has been developed for the simple and specific detection of peroxynitrite, showing aggregation-induced emission characteristics and high sensitivity. Encapsulated nanoparticles of TPE-DMAB have been successfully used to detect endogenous ONOO- in macrophage cells and visualize inflammation sites in mice, demonstrating its great potential for biological applications.
MATERIALS CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS
(2021)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Huadong Liu, Hewei Li, Kezhen Du, Haoxuan Xu
Summary: In this paper, yellow fluorescent carbon dots (Y-CDs) were successfully synthesized and used as sensing probes for the detection of Hg2+ ions. The Y-CDs exhibited excellent performance with high selectivity and low detection limit. Additionally, a portable fluorescence test paper was prepared based on Y-CDs, and the mechanism of fluorescence quenching was investigated by synthesizing Y-CDs@ZIF-8 composites.
MATERIALS TODAY COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Jiujiang Ji, Mengshi Wang, Miaomiao Hu, Liucheng Mao, Qigang Wang, Wuyi Zhou, Mei Tian, Jinying Yuan, Kun Hu, Yen Wei
Summary: Two types of aggregation induced emission (AIE) stereolithography resins have been prepared, one is a thermoset photocurable resin and the other is a thermoplastic photocurable resin with OFF-ON fluorescence response. The 3D printing process of these photopolymers can be continuously monitored based on the change of fluorescence intensity.
COMPOSITES PART B-ENGINEERING
(2021)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Stephen J. Picken, Georgy A. Filonenko
Summary: Polymer glasses with chain end induced defects can create confined environments for hosting small emissive molecules, with the size of these confinements depending on molecular weight. This can dramatically affect the photoluminescence of emissive complexes. The size and placement of luminescent molecular probes in polymer glasses can also significantly impact probe luminescence and its temperature dependence, marking a difference with conventional small molecule solvents.
ACS APPLIED POLYMER MATERIALS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yi-chen Liu, Wei Du, Guang-jian Liu, Wei Zhou, Xiao-jie Gao, Guo-wen Xing
Summary: An amphiphilic hydrazone fluorescent molecule THG-1 was designed for ratiometric detection of HOCl with high sensitivity and excellent selectivity. The molecule was successfully used for imaging of exogenous and endogenous HOCl in living cells.
CHEMISTRY-AN ASIAN JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Hai-Xia Yu, Junge Zhi, Jin-Liang Wang
Summary: Three isomeric tetraarylethylene derivatives with unique aggregation-induced emission (AIE) luminescence properties were designed and synthesized, exhibiting remarkable photochromic behaviors with distinct influences from the positions of the substituent aldehyde groups. The meta-substituted isomer showed a fast reversible photo-switch with high colorimetric contrast in the solid state, highlighting the potential applications of these AIE-active photochromic molecules. Additionally, the reaction of the aldehyde group with hydrogen sulfite (HSO3-) allowed the luminogens to exhibit a turn-off fluorescence response to HSO3- in high water content, indicating their prospective applications in information security and specific fluorescence sensing.
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Hua Sun, Tengfei He, Chuchen Zhang, Shifan Wang, Liming Dong, Zhao Li, Pei-Yang Gu, Zhe Wang, Guankui Long, Qichun Zhang
Summary: Researchers designed two red organic luminophores with enhanced transition dipole moments and aggregation-induced emission through a methoxy-substitution strategy, providing a guideline for the development of red and NIR aggregation-induced emission luminogens.
CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Biomedical
Siddhi Gupta, Deepak Kumar Mishra, Mehak Zahoor Khan, Varsha Saini, Devashish Mehta, Sandeep Kumar, Aditya Yadav, Madhurima Mitra, Parul Rani, Mukesh Singh, Chayan Kanti Nandi, Prasenjit Das, Vineet Ahuja, Vinay Kumar Nandicoori, Avinash Bajaj
Summary: This study presents a fluorescent probe, P4, that can specifically detect mycobacterium species with high sensitivity and specificity. Unlike other enzyme-dependent probes, P4 probe can detect mycobacteria even in fixed mouse and human tissue. Therefore, P4 probe has potential applications in the diagnosis and prognosis of tuberculosis.
ADVANCED HEALTHCARE MATERIALS
(2022)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Jialong Wu, Yongwei Wu, Zepeng He, Zihua Li, Huahua Huang, Yongming Chen, Guodong Liang
Summary: This study reports a facile and highly efficient synthetic method for preparing organic photothermal materials, obtaining conjugated microporous polymers with abundant micropores and extended pi-conjugated skeleton through polymerization of commercial aromatic monomers. These materials exhibit outstanding NIR photothermal performance and can be used as photothermal fillers to control shape recovery of thermal-sensitive shape memory polymers.
SCIENCE CHINA-MATERIALS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Applied
Shengfa Xiong, Yuhan Cui, Wanchu Wei, Fangming Zhu, Guodong Liang
Summary: The use of fluorescent amphiphilic diblock copolymer nanoparticles with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) properties enables rapid and sensitive detection of organic pollutants in water. These nanoparticles have high fluorescence quantum yield and long lifetime, making them ideal candidates for analyte detection. The sensors based on these fluorescent nanoparticles show high fidelity in detecting toxic chemicals in tap and river water, providing a promising platform for rapid detection of organic pollutants in water.
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Mingliang Ge, Yueying Li, Caiping Zhu, Guodong Liang, Jahangir S. M. Alam, Guoqing Hu, Yuee Gui, Junaebur M. Rashid
Summary: A novel nanohybrid drug carrier material, CTAB-MAG-Fe3O4, with high drug loading capacity and sustained releasing properties, was developed for cancer treatment, showing great potential in drug delivery applications.
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Yusheng Zhou, Jing Ma, Peng Zhang, Zhen Liu, Zhenguo Chi, Guodong Liang
Summary: The concept of cage effect is proposed to promote room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) property of organic materials, leading to the design and synthesis of a novel phosphor with high performances. The strong cage effect demonstrated in the study effectively alleviates molecular motion of chromophores, simultaneously enhancing their RTP efficiency and lifetime, which could have potential applications in temperature measurements, thermal transition detection, and UV sensing.
ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Xueqian Zhao, Parvej Alam, Jianyu Zhang, Shiyun Lin, Qian Peng, Jun Zhang, Guodong Liang, Sijie Chen, Jing Zhang, Herman H. Y. Sung, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Ian D. Williams, Xinggui Gu, Zheng Zhao, Ben Zhong Tang
Summary: Materials exhibiting metallophilic interactions have unique photophysical and stimuli-responsive behavior. This study reports a new phosphorescent gold(I) complex that displays mechanochromic and thermochromic luminescence properties in the crystalline state.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Faxu Lin, Haiyang Wang, Yifeng Cao, Rujun Yu, Guodong Liang, Huahua Huang, Yingxiao Mu, Zhiyong Yang, Zhenguo Chi
Summary: This study presents a universal strategy to combine infrared persistent luminescent materials with red and near-infrared dyes through stepwise Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET), solving the issue of inadequate spectral overlap.
ADVANCED MATERIALS
(2022)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Wenjie Tao, Yusheng Zhou, Faxu Lin, Haiyang Gao, Zhenguo Chi, Guodong Liang
Summary: This study reports a new type of mechanically responsive materials, RTP polymers, which possess both mechanochromic and mechanodecay characteristics. These polymers exhibit abundant changes in fluorescence intensity, emission color, RTP intensity, and RTP lifetime under force stimuli, enabling the detection of material deformation. Through phosphorescence lifetime and image analysis, early damage warning for engineering polymers can be achieved.
ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Mingliang Ge, Xinxiang Li, Yueying Li, S. M. Jahangir Alam, Yuee Gui, Yongchao Huang, Luoxiang Cao, Guodong Liang, Guoqing Hu
Summary: In this study, a nanohybrid drug carrier was synthesized using the PETE method and its sustained-release properties were controlled. The results of XRD, FTIR, and SEM analysis showed that the carrier successfully encapsulated sodium alginate and metronidazole, and the slow-release mechanism was explained.
JOURNAL OF POLYMERS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Yusheng Zhou, Longming Jin, Jinqing Chen, Wei Hong, Guodong Liang, Wei Qin
Summary: Organic persistent luminescence (OPL) with multi-dimensional stimuli-response is achieved through a rational design, using a single organic phosphor and amorphous polymer that can respond to time, temperature, humidity, and excitation. The amorphous polymer films with dual-mode OPL are easily fabricated by combining doping strategy and confinement effect. The multifunctional OPL system includes dual-mode afterglow, time-, temperature-, excitation- and humidity-dependent afterglow color, and finds applications in temperature measuring, in-situ humidity sensing, anti-counterfeiting, and data encryption.
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Haiyang Wang, Tian Qin, Wen Wang, Xie Zhou, Faxu Lin, Guodong Liang, Zhiyong Yang, Zhenguo Chi, Ben Zhong Tang
Summary: In this study, new selenium-containing type-I photosensitizers Se6 and Se5 with benzoselenadiazole acceptor were designed and showed aggregation-induced emission characteristic. Se6 exhibited a smaller energy gap (Delta E-ST) of 0.03 eV and improved ROS efficiency, generating both long-lived superoxide anion (O-2(center dot-)) and short-lived hydroxyl ((OH)-O-center dot) upon irradiation. Simultaneous processes to produce (OH)-O-center dot were revealed, including disproportionation of O-2(center dot-) and reaction between excited PS and water. Se6 demonstrated superior in-vitro PDT performance to commercial chlorin e6 (Ce6) under normoxia or hypoxia, and a significantly higher tumor growth inhibition rate of 99% was observed in the in-vivo PDT performance of Se6. These findings provide new insights for both molecular design and mechanism study of type-I photosensitizers.
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Jinzheng Chen, Faxu Lin, Guodong Liang, Huahua Huang, Tian Qin, Zhiyong Yang, Zhenguo Chi
Summary: In this work, a series of asymmetric diarylamine guests were designed and prepared to construct host-guest systems with stimuli-responsive room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP). The FRET process changes were revealed to be the key to the stimulus-responsive RTP. The DMAP/MDPA-Ph system showed the best RTP performance.
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Zihua Li, Yusheng Zhou, Yuhan Cui, Guodong Liang
Summary: Efficient electrochemiluminescent (ECL) luminogens were synthesized and used to fabricate a solid-state ECL film with unique dual-potential ECL properties. The film showed bright ECL with high efficiency and was successfully applied for the sensitive detection of malachite green (MG) in a real fish tissue sample. The study provides a promising platform for the sensitive detection of MG in the food industry.
Article
Materials Science, Biomaterials
Zihua Li, Yusheng Zhou, Yuhan Cui, Guodong Liang
Summary: A bright surface-enhanced electrochemiluminescence film (SEEF) was fabricated with low driving potential and easy observation. The film had adjustable electrochemiluminescence brightness and exhibited flexibility and stability. It was also used for biomolecule detection in aqueous media with a record-low limit of detection.
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY B
(2022)
Article
Polymer Science
Yuhan Cui, Yusheng Zhou, Guodong Liang
Summary: A novel TFN with good stability and visual detection capabilities was designed and constructed for the sensitive detection of aromatic amines in water. The nano-sheets can absorb organic pollutants in water, transitioning into small nano-spheres for visual detection.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jing Ma, Yusheng Zhou, Haiyang Gao, Fangming Zhu, Guodong Liang
Summary: Photoluminescent materials are widely used in various fields, with a recent study reporting rare full-type photoluminescence from a single organic molecule, showing properties like aggregation-induced phosphorescence and thermoresponsive persistent phosphorescence. The materials can provide multiple visual signals upon temperature variation, and their luminescence thermoresponse is amplified when incorporated into polymers. A facile method based on phosphorescence lifetime and image analysis is used for quick, visual, and quantitative temperature sensing, showing promise for applications in quantitative temperature sensing.
MATERIALS CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS
(2021)
Article
Polymer Science
Paige A. Shaw, Maxime Klausen, Mark Bradley
Summary: A light-responsive polymer capable of controlled release of camptothecin and generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) was developed, which exhibited high cancer cell killing activity through both camptothecin release and ROS generation.
Article
Polymer Science
Donghui Zhang, Shiqi Liu, Zhihao Cai, Weizhe Luo, Guojian Liu, Runhui Liu
Summary: A straightforward and efficient method for synthesizing NPC monomers has been developed in this study, which enhances the availability of NPC monomers and facilitates the synthesis of polypeptides.