Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Rational design of pyrrole derivatives with aggregation-induced phosphorescence characteristics for time-resolved and two-photon luminescence imaging

  • Jianhui Yang,
  • Yahui Zhang,
  • Xinghui Wu,
  • Wenbo Dai,
  • Dan Chen,
  • Jianbing Shi,
  • Bin Tong,
  • Qian Peng,
  • Haiyan Xie,
  • Zhengxu Cai,
  • Yuping Dong,
  • Xin Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25174-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) fluorescence probes are indispensable for biomedical imaging, however, interference with tissue autofluorescence results in low signal-to-noise ratio limiting the development of bioimaging with AIE materials. Here the authors develop AIEgen room-temperature phosphors with long emission lifetimes efficiently eliminating intereference with the background signal in imaging.