Aggregation-induced emission: a coming-of-age ceremony at the age of eighteen

• 来源期刊: 中国科学:化学（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（9）
• 页码范围: 1090-1098
• 页数: 9页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) has drawn great attention worldwide for its unique optical phenomenon and huge potential applications.Since coined by Ben Zhong Tang et al.in 2001,AIE has been deeply investigated and widely utilized in many important areas,such as organic light-emitting diode (OLED),sensor,and bio-imaging.Herein,we highlight some important progress of AIE in these eighteen years,including the exploration of internal mechanism and potential applications.Furthermore,some other interestingly emissive behaviors,originating but distinguishing from the AIE concept,are presented.It is anticipated an overall understanding about AIE could be easily caught from this short review for scientists,no matter whether they are involved in this exciting and rising research area or not.