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Nanocrystallization: A Unique Approach to Yield Bright Organic Nanocrystals for Biological Applications
S. M. Ali Fateminia,Zhiming Wang,Chi Ching Goh,Purnima Naresh Manghnani,Wenbo Wu,Duo Mao,Lai Guan Ng,Zujin Zhao,Ben Zhong Tang,Ben Zhong Tang,Bin Liu,Bin Liu +11 more
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A new bottom-up nanocrystallization method is developed to fabricate highly fluorescent organic nanocrystals in aqueous media using an aggregation-induced emission fluorogen (AIEgen) as an example.Abstract:
A new bottom-up nanocrystallization method is developed to fabricate highly fluorescent organic nanocrystals in aqueous media using an aggregation-induced emission fluorogen (AIEgen) as an example. The nanocrystallization strategy leads to the fabrication of uniform nanocrystals of 110 ± 10 nm size in aqueous media, which shows over 400% increase in brightness as compared to the amorphous nanoaggregates.read more
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Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE) Dots: Emerging Theranostic Nanolights.
Guangxue Feng,Bin Liu +1 more
TL;DR: The recent advance of AIE dots is summarized and their great potential as theranostic nanolights in biomedical applications is highlighted, with particular interest is AIE photosensitizer dots, which simultaneously show bright fluorescence and high photosensitization, yielding superior performance to commercial photosensitized nanoparticles in image-guided therapy.
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Enhancing the performance of pure organic room-temperature phosphorescent luminophores
Kenry,Chengjian Chen,Bin Liu +2 more
TL;DR: This Review discusses the fundamental mechanism of RTP in pure organic Luminophores, followed by design principles, enhancement strategies, and formulation methods to achieve highly phosphorescent and long-lived organic RTP luminophores even in aqueous media.
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Organic Nanocrystals with Bright Red Persistent Room-Temperature Phosphorescence for Biological Applications.
TL;DR: A new design strategy for realizing high brightness and long lifetime of red-emissive RTP molecules is reported, which is based on introducing an alkoxy spacer between the hybrid units in the molecule.
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Design of superior phototheranostic agents guided by Jablonski diagrams
TL;DR: This review summarizes the recent progress of organic phototheranostic agents with an emphasis on the main strategies to manipulate the three excitation energy dissipation pathways, namely, radiative decay, thermal deactivation, and intersystem crossing, with the assistance of a Jablonski diagram.
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Precise Molecular Design for High-Performance Luminogens with Aggregation-Induced Emission
Shidang Xu,Yukun Duan,Bin Liu +2 more
TL;DR: The useful principles and emerging structure–property relationships for precise molecular design toward AIEgens with desirable properties using concrete examples are revealed and their excellent performance in enabling new research directions in biomedical theranostics, optoelectronic devices, stimuli‐responsive smart materials, and visualization of physical processes are highlighted.
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Aggregation-induced emission of 1-methyl-1,2,3,4,5-pentaphenylsilole
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Aggregation-Induced Emission: Together We Shine, United We Soar!
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Determining the size and shape dependence of gold nanoparticle uptake into mammalian cells.
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Rate of Nucleation in Condensed Systems
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TL;DR: On the basis of the nucleation theory developed by Volmer, Becker, and co-workers, and the theory of absolute reaction rates, an expression for the absolute rate of nucleation in condensed systems was derived in this paper.
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Bioprobes Based on AIE Fluorogens
TL;DR: The simple design and fluorescenceturn-on feature of the molecular AIE bioprobes offer direct visualization of specific analytes and biological processes in aqueous media with higher sensitivity and better accuracy than traditional fluorescence turn-off probes.