Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Manipulating and visualizing the dynamic aggregation-induced emission within a confined quartz nanopore

  • Yi-Lun Ying,
  • Yuan-Jie Li,
  • Ju Mei,
  • Rui Gao,
  • Yong-Xu Hu,
  • Yi-Tao Long,
  • He Tian

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05832-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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The difficulty in recovering the aggregation-induced emission fluorogens (AIEgens) to the initial dispersed state upon illuminating has limited their applications. Here, the authors employ the confined space in the quartz nanopore to achieve a nanopore-size dependent restriction of AIEgens.