聚集诱导发光分子的光电功能与器件应用

光电功能分子通常以薄膜和聚集体的形式显示功能, 聚集诱导发光（AIE）分子体系的发现为解决固态下聚集诱导荧光猝灭（ACQ）难题提供了新的思路. 本文总结了近年来本课题组发展的一系列AIE 分子, 侧重介绍这些AIE 分子的光电功能与器件应用, 特别是在有机电致发光器件和有机激光方面的应用. AIE 材料显示非常高的电致发光效率, 在显示与白光器件方面潜力巨大. 在发展电泵有机激光方面, AIE 材料特点突出, 是最有前景的一类材料.     

聚集诱导发光应用研究进展

传统的荧光化合物在聚集态时,会导致荧光猝灭;而聚集诱导发光(AIE)化合物在溶液中单分子状态时呈现弱的荧光,但当形成聚集态时发出强的荧光,这是由于分子内旋转受阻(RIR)和聚集形态的改变所致.综述了2008年以来聚集诱导发光最新应用研究进展,如用以检测离子、气体、有机小分子、爆炸物、蛋白、酶等化学/生物传感器;向传统的聚集引起猝灭化合物引入AIE单元,制备高效固态发光器件等;通过压力、热、溶剂蒸汽等调控聚集态,构建可逆的刺激性多重响应材料;发展与生物体具有良好兼容性的聚集体杂化纳米颗粒(如荧光硅纳米颗粒、聚合物胶束、电解质等),以用于生物体内成像、结构解析及检测等.     

二苯乙烯基蒽衍生物:聚集诱导发光性质、机理及应用

与传统的发光分子相比,具有聚集诱导发光(AIE)性质的分子,在聚集态或固态条件下,由于独特的分子结构和聚集态结构,表现出显著增强的荧光发射,因而在光电器件、生物化学检测等领域展现出广阔的应用前景。本文总结了二苯乙烯基蒽(DSA)及其衍生物的AIE性质,分析了DSA类分子AIE现象的机理,如分子内转动受限、扭曲的分子结构及分子间聚集结构等,同时介绍了此类分子在固态发光、刺激-响应材料,以及生物检测和生物成像等方面的应用。     

外缘烷基链长对共轭有机小分子聚集行为及光电性质影响

改变分子化学结构和调控分子结构聚集态行为从而影响或改变材料的化学和物理性质, 是开发新型高效有机光电功能材料的重要手段. 在共轭有机分子外缘引入烷基链一般是为了改进材料溶解性能, 但近来的一些研究表明, 烷基链长对一些共轭有机小分子固态聚集行为和光电性质具有重要影响, 烷基链扮演着显著调控材料光电性质的“功能基团”作用. 本文以聚集诱导发光（aggregation-induced emission, AIE）/聚集强化荧光（aggregation enhanced emission, AEE）发射共轭有机小分子为重点, 对近年来有关烷基链长对共轭有机分子聚集形态和光电性质影响的一些典型事例进行评述, 旨在使人们在进行共轭有机分子设计合成及其结构与性能关系研究中能够关注烷基链的因素, 使烷基链变化作为功能导向晶态共轭有机材料设计合成及其可控制备的一种手段.     

聚集诱导发光机理研究

与传统荧光生色团聚集后导致荧光猝灭相反,有一类化合物在单分子状态下荧光微弱甚至观察不到荧光,而在聚集状态下荧光显著增强,这就是聚集诱导发光(AIE)现象。AIE现象独特的优越性使得众多研究组开发出越来越多的新AIE体系,其机理也被广泛而深入地研究。本文总结了目前为止已经提出的AIE机理,包括分子内旋转受限、分子内共平面、抑制光物理过程或光化学反应、非紧密堆积、形成J-聚集体以及形成特殊激基缔合物等;着重评述了目前研究最为全面、适用范围最广的分子内旋转受限机理。同时介绍了一些基于这些机理设计的新AIE体系。     

有机分子聚集体中振动分辨光谱的激子耦合效应

光谱是探究分子间相互作用及发光机理的有效手段.本工作采用Frenkel激子模型和量子力学/分子力学（QM/MM）方法系统研究了一系列聚集诱导发光（AIE）体系和传统荧光（非AIE）体系晶态下的吸收、发射光谱.结果表明,分子内电声子耦合（λ）与分子间激子耦合（J）竞争决定了晶态聚集体的光谱特性.在室温下,当J/λ值大于约0.17时,有机分子聚集体光谱的激子耦合效应将表现明显.例如,对于面对面排列的H聚集体,只有考虑激子耦合效应的理论计算光谱才与其实验光谱吻合很好,即相较于单分子光谱的吸收蓝移、发射减弱并红移.对于AIE体系,因为其J/λ值均小于0.17,AIE聚集体光谱特征主要是由分子内电声子耦合所主导,激子耦合可以忽略不计.     

聚集诱导发光

聚集诱导发光(AIE)是唐本忠院士于2001年提出的一个科学概念,是指一类在溶液中不发光或者发光微弱的分子聚集后发光显著增强的现象。高效固态发光的AIE材料有望从根本上解决有机发光材料面临的聚集导致发光猝灭难题,具有重大的实际应用价值。从分子内旋转受限到分子内运动受限,从聚集诱导发光到聚集体科学,AIE领域已经取得了许多原创性的成果。在本综述中,我们从AIE材料的分类、机理、概念衍生、性能、应用和挑战等方面讨论了AIE领域最近取得的显著进展。希望本综述能激发更多关于分子聚集体的研究,并推动材料、化学和生物医学等学科的进一步交叉融合和更大发展。     

具有聚集荧光增强效应的四苯基吡嗪类衍生物的制备和性能研究

聚集诱导发光(AIE)已经成为光物理和发光材料领域的研究热点.设计与合成新的AIE核心分子是该领域进一步发展的基础.在我们发展的、新的AIE核心分子四苯基吡嗪(TPP)的基础上,通过引入给电子的噻吩基团,设计合成了三个TPP的衍生物TPP-T、TPP-2T和T-TPP-T,并详细研究了三个分子的构效关系.结果表明三个分子均具有聚集荧光增强(AEE)效应,其粉末的最强发射峰分别位于418,437和436 nm处,属于蓝紫光和深蓝光发射,绝对荧光量子产率分别为26.8%,29.%和30.9%.结合其优异的热稳定性,这些TPP衍生物有望用于有机发光二极管(OLED)器件中的发光层.     

聚集诱导发光分子在公共安全领域中的应用

对于公共安全中存在的安全隐患及时检测和预防有助于保护公民的身体健康和财产安全。荧光检测技术以其优异的选择性、高的灵敏度、快的响应速度引起了广泛的研究。聚集诱导发光(AIE)材料作为一种与聚集导致发光猝灭(ACQ)材料截然相反的新兴有机荧光材料,实现了发光分子在固态或是聚集态下的高荧光量子产率。而独特的AIE特性,使其不必担心由于分子聚集导致的荧光信号的降低或猝灭,同时由于分子聚集程度的增加引起荧光颜色和强度的变化,可以被用来实现对靶标物的定性和定量分析,为荧光分析检测提供了新的思路和方案。目前基于AIE的荧光检测方法及相关技术已经被广泛应用各个领域,其中在公共安全领域的研究表现突出,并取得较高的研究成果。本文分析总结了近几年来AIE分子在公共安全领域中的应用进展,包括爆炸性物质、指纹识别、毒品检测、食品安全等方面,并对目前存在的问题和应用前景进行了总结和展望。     

基于激发态分子内质子转移的新型聚集诱导荧光探针用于硫化氢的检测及细胞成像

该文使用4-乙酰氨基苯甲醛和碳酸肼一步法合成了一种具有聚集诱导荧光（AIE）特性的高效新型荧光探针1。通过荧光发射光谱、紫外光谱、粒度粒径分析、扫描电子显微镜和DFT理论计算讨论了探针1的AIE特性,证明了探针的发光机理是激发态分子内质子转移（ESIPT）效应。探针1在DMSO－H2O（1∶9,体积比）,pH 7.4（PBS,0.2 mol/L）体系中可定量检测0～25 μmol/L范围内的H2S,检出限为0.27 μmol/L。此外,探针1不仅成功用于实际样品中H2S的检测,还可应用于活HeLa细胞中外源性H2S的荧光成像。并将其用于构建超灵敏逻辑门。利用探针1制备的简单便携经济的检测试纸,能够实时有效地视觉检测H2S。该研究有望为各种生理过程和食品样品中H2S的检测提供可靠有效的新思路与新方法。     

Recent Advances of AIE-Active Conjugated Polymers: Synthesis and Application

Conjugated polymers (CPs) have long been recognized as an important class of materials. The highly conjugated backbone of the CPs will facilitate the rapid exciton migration and result in amplification of fluorescence signals. However, CPs are likely to aggregate and form excimers in solid states, directly leading to the fluorescence quenching, namely aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ), hence inhibiting their prospective utilizations in a large degree. Since the effect of aggregation-induced emission (AIE) is opposite to that of notorious ACQ, the AIE has raised great attention from scientists. CPs with AIE or aggregation-enhanced emission (AEE) features may help to solve the ACQ problem and meanwhile impart polymers with new properties and practical applications. In this review, we summarize the recent progress on the preparation of CPs with AIE or AEE characteristics, where AIE-active luminogens are located at polymer backbones or pendants. Their potential applications including fluorescent sensors, biological probes, and active layers for the fabrication of light-emitting diodes are also described.     

Organic Nanocrystals Based on a Solid-emission-tunable AIEgen for Cell Imaging

The development of fluorescent nanocrystals based on organic small molecules is of great importance in bioimaging due to the merits of easy modification,high brightness and excellent photostability,however suffering from the emission-detrimental aggregation-caused quenching(ACQ)effect.Herein,we successfully designed and synthesized an AIE-active di(N,N-dimethylaniline)-dibenzofulvene(named as NFTPE),which exhibits the crystallization-induced emission enhancement(CIEE)effect.Interestingly,two types of yellow-and orange-emissive crystals for NFTPE were obtained,exhibiting aggregation microenvironment-dependent emission tuning in the solid state.Single-crystal analysis and density functional theory(DFT)calculations reveal that different aggregation microenvironments result in the distinct molecular conformation for various emission.Excitingly,the crystallization of NFTPE in an aqueous solution under the assistance of amphiphilic PEG polymer matrices could be monitored in situ by the fluorescence changes,facilitating the preparation of NFTPE nanocrystals(NFTPE-NCs)by adjusting the aggregation microenvironment.The obtained NFTPE-NCs exhibit the superior performance in cell imaging in respect to high brightness,photostability,and biocompatibility,thus demonstrating the potential in bioimaging applications.     

Investigating the effects of side chain length on the AIE properties of water-soluble TPE derivatives

The emissive properties of fluorophores in aggregated state are important for the development of bio-sensors or bio-imaging reagents. So three water-soluble TPE derivatives with different lengths of side chains have been synthesized and we investigated the effects of side chains on aggregation-induced emission (AIE) properties in the aggregated states. The results indicate that side chains on the fluorophores play a pivotal role in their emission in aggregated state mediated by heparin or solid state, because the coplanarity of these TPE derivatives was affected by side chains. The rates of radiative decay k_f and non-radiative decay k_nr have been obtained through the quantum yields and lifetime, and a larger k_f and smaller k_nr were present for compound TPE-C4N, suggesting that the aggregated TPE-C4N should posses the most remarkable fluorescent property.     

Aggregation‐Induced Emission Characteristics of o‐Carborane‐Functionalized Tetraphenylethylene Luminogens: The Influence of Carborane Cages on Photoluminescence

Tetraphenylethylene (TPE)–carborane hybrids are constructed, and the impact of carborane substituents on the aggregation‐induced emission (AIE) characteristics of TPE‐cores has been investigated. When altering the 2‐R‐group on the carborane unit with ‐H, ‐CH₃ or phenyl group, the luminescent quantum yield of the corresponding TPE derivatives can be manipulated from 0.18 to 0.63 in the solid state. The emission color exhibits an obvious 100 nm shift (from blue to yellow).     

Insights into the Aggregation Behaviour of a Benzoselenadiazole-Based Compound and Generation of White Light Emission

We have designed and synthesized the benzoselenadiazole (BDS) based donor-acceptor-donor (D-A-D) π-conjugated compound 4,7-di((E)styryl)benzo[2,1,3]selenadiazole ( 1 ). A single-crystal study of 1 shows J-type molecular aggregation in the solid state. The crystal packing of 1 shows head-to-head dimeric intermolecular assembly via Se⋅⋅⋅N interactions while staircase-type interlock molecular packing has occurred via Se⋅⋅⋅π interaction. The staircase-type interlock packing of dimeric molecular arrangement induces sheet-type, herringbone type architecture along crystallographic a axis and ab plane via CH⋅⋅⋅π interactions. Interestingly, the J-type aggregation of 1 in solid state changes to H-type aggregation upon UV-irradiation. Moreover, our spectroscopic findings in solution state reveal H-type of aggregation of 1 in 90 % aqueous THF. We have further demonstrated white light emission in the binary mixture of 1 and 1-pyrenemethanol ( 2 ) in 90 % aqueous THF. Our study reveals solvent specific co-assembly of H-aggregated 1 and 2 in 90 % aqueous THF solution, which shows white light emissive properties with the Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) chromaticity coordinates (0.32, 0.31). The observed white light emission arises mainly due to the combination of red light from H-aggregated 1 , blue light from monomeric 2 and green light from excimers of 2 .     

Synthesis and properties of a new AIE macrocyclic emitter with triarylamine backbone

A new macrocyclic AIE emitter composed of triarylamine backbone was successfully synthesized through convenient homocoupling procedure and easily purified by silica gel column chromatography, and recrystallization. The optical and electrochemical properties of the compound have been investigated. Intriguingly, the compound shows dual emission both 423 nm and 505 nm. This result implied that the violet emission was originated from an isolated component of the emitter, whereas the yellowish-green emission simultaneously exhibited AIE nature. The compound exhibits enough thermal stability and high glass transition temperature to be applied for organic devices.     

EUROPIUM(III) AND TERBIUM(III) β-DIKETONATE ADDUCTS WITH 2,6-DIMETHYLMORPHOLINE: SYNTHESIS,CHARACTERIZATION AND EMISSION SPECTRA

Abstract

Complexes with composition Ln₂(β-diketonate)₆ (dmm) (Ln = Eu, Tb; dmm = 2,6-dimethyl-morpholine; β-diketonate = 4,4,4-trifluoro-l-(2-thienyl)-l,3-butanodionate (tta); 4,4,4-tri-fluoro-1-phenyl-1,3-butanodionate (tfpb) and l,l,l-trifluoro-l,4-pentanedionate (tfa)) have been synthesized. The adducts were characterized by microanalyses, IR spectra and emission spectra at room temperature and at 77K. The spectra of europium complexes indicate the oligomeric at least dimeric, nature of the compounds, since the bands are broad. The number of peaks in all cases was interpreted as C_3V symmetry around the central ion.     

4,4'-[(2,2-二苯乙烯)-1,1-双(4,1-亚苯基)]二吡啶的合成、表征及其聚集诱导发光性能研究

以提升学生的实验操作及创新能力为目的的综合化学实验，采用简单的2步法（缩合和Suzuki反应）合成了一种具有聚集诱导发光性能的化合物4，4'-[（2，2-二苯乙烯）-1，1-双（4，1-亚苯基）]二吡啶（简称2Py-TPE）。利用过滤、洗涤、萃取、干燥和柱层析等常用的有机分离操作手段对该化合物进行纯化；使用核磁共振仪、高分辨质谱仪、红外光谱仪及稳态瞬态荧光光谱仪对其进行结构表征和聚集诱导发光性能研究。该实验不仅可以促使学生了解以四苯乙烯衍生物为代表的聚集诱导发光材料的研究现状，而且能够培养学生的综合实验能力和科学探究能力。     

具有聚集诱导发光性质的近红外荧光染料

聚集诱导发光(AIE)现象的发现为解决传统有机荧光分子在高浓度和聚集形态下存在的荧光猝灭问题提供了最佳方案,并实现了在光电器件、化学传感、生物成像和靶向治疗等众多领域的广泛应用。随着对AIE发光机理研究的不断深入,AIE分子体系得到了极大的扩展。其中,一类具有给体-受体结构的AIE分子能够显著降低分子能隙,使发光分子波长从可见光区(400~700 nm)延伸到近红外(NIR)区(700~1700 nm)。由于NIR发光分子在生物医学领域中的独特优势,其已成为目前AIE研究的热点。随着对NIR分子设计及应用的不断探索,附加不同功能且发光波长更长的AIE分子也被开发出来了,并实现了对生物体特定组织的NIR荧光成像、光声成像、光动力治疗和光热治疗等。本文总结了近年来具有AIE性能的NIR荧光分子的结构及其在生物医学领域的相关应用。     

Rapid and efficient purification of positron emission tomography probes by hydrophilic interaction chromatography

A rapid and efficient preparative high-performance liquid chromatographic procedure was established to purify short-lived positron emission tomography radio-probes. This method is based on hydrophilic interaction chromatography utilizing a semi-preparative silica column (10 mm I.D.) and a high volatile organic mobile phase (>90% acetonitrile). In nine different radiopharmaceuticals studied, six compounds could be separated from the unlabeled precursor with good resolution and faster elution than its precursor. These characteristics enabled significant shortening of the separation and evaporation processes in the manufacture of short-lived radiopharmaceuticals. Several ¹¹C-radiopharmaceuticals could be prepared within one half-life of carbon-11 (20.4 min), including radiosynthesis, purification and formulation steps with sufficient radiochemical/chemical purity and high levels of radioactivity/specific radioactivity.