Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Color-tunable single-fluorophore supramolecular system with assembly-encoded emission

  • Qian Wang,
  • Qi Zhang,
  • Qi-Wei Zhang,
  • Xin Li,
  • Cai-Xin Zhao,
  • Tian-Yi Xu,
  • Da-Hui Qu,
  • He Tian

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13994-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

Read online

Regulating fluorescent properties of small molecules in a controlled manner has been a fundamental research goal but realizing multi-color emission from a single fluorophore remains challenging. Here the authros demonstrate that combined pyrene fluorophore and acylhydrazone units show multi-color switchable fluorescent at different assembled states.