Handbook of Aggregation-Induced Emission, Volume 3. Группа авторов

      Chengshuo Shen School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Jiangman Sun Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China

      Ben Zhong Tang Shenzhen Institute of Aggregate Science and Technology School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

      Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration & Reconstruction, and Institute for Advanced Study, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, China

      Center for Aggregation‐Induced Emission, SCUT‐HKUST Joint Research Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

      Youhong Tang Institute for NanoScale Science and Technology, Medical Device Research Institute,College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, SA, Australia

      Javad Tavakoli Centre for Health Technologies, School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, NSW, Australia

      Eethamukkala Ubba PCFM Lab, GDHPPC Lab, Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center for High‐ performance Organic and Polymer Photoelectric Functional Films, State Key Laboratory of OEMT, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat‐sen University, Guangzhou, China

      Guan Wang Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China

      Jianguo Wang Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Fine Organic Synthesis, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China

      Qiang Wei Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy Sciences, Ningbo, China

      Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

      Alex Y. H. Wong Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Hong Kong, China

      Sheng Xie State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China

      Yun Yan Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China

      Zhan Yang PCFM Lab, GDHPPC Lab, Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center for High‐ performance Organic and Polymer Photoelectric Functional Films, State Key Laboratory of OEMT, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat‐sen University, Guangzhou, China

Zhiyong Yang PCFM Lab, GDHPPC Lab, Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center for High‐ performance Organic and Polymer Photoelectric Functional Films, State Key Laboratory of OEMT, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat‐sen University, Guangzhou, China

      Bicheng Yao Department of Chemistry and Physics, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

      Xiaoming Yu Key Laboratory of Reproductive Genetics (Ministry of Education), Women’s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

      Chen Zhang Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

      Deqing Zhang Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratories of Organic Solids and Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

      Jiasen Zhang Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy Sciences, Ningbo, China

      Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

      Key Laboratory of Advanced Textile Materials and Manufacturing Technology, Ministry of Education, Zhejiang Sci‐Tech University, Hangzhou, China

      Yi Zhang PCFM Lab, GDHPPC Lab, Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center for High‐ performance Organic and Polymer Photoelectric Functional Films, State Key Laboratory of OEMT, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat‐sen University, Guangzhou, China

      Juan Zhao School of Materials Science & Engineering, Sun Yat‐sen University, Guangzhou, China

      Ming‐Qiang Zhu Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, School of Optics and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

      Preface to Handbook of Aggregation‐Induced Emission

      Aggregation‐induced emission (AIE) describes a photophysical phenomenon in which molecular aggregate exhibits stronger emission than its single‐molecule counterpart. AIE research provides an excellent platform to explore aggregate behaviours since it emphasizes the new properties endowed by molecular aggregates beyond the microscopic molecular level. The 21‐year development of AIE research has witnessed the great achievements in this area, including mechanistic understanding, structure‐property relationship, and high‐tech applications. The achievements of AIE research demonstrate that many behaviours and functions that are absent in molecular species can be founded in molecular aggregates. Since the properties of molecular ensembles are closer to those of macroscopic materials, AIE research is of both scientific value and technological importance for real applications.

      Due to its great value and huge potential, AIE research is attracting more and more attention from chemistry, physics, materials science, medical and biomedical science and shows promising applications in these fields. Noteworthy, as a general platform to study aggregate science, AIE keeps integrating with other research fields involving materials, biology, medicine, energy and environment, and injects new vitality into these fields. When more researchers are working on this field, more breakthroughs in both fundamental research and application are envisioned in the future.

      This handbook is an essential reading for scientists and engineers who are designing optoelectronic materials and chemical/biomedical sensors. It is also a valuable reference book to academic researchers in materials science, physical and synthetic organic chemistry as well as physicists and biological chemists.

      Preface to Volume 3: Applications

      This Volume updates the emerging high‐tech applications of aggregation‐induced emission (AIE) luminogens. AIE offers a new platform application for researchers to look into the light‐emitting processes from luminogen aggregates, from which useful information on structure‐property relationships may be collected. Technological utilizations of AIE materials in the areas of electroluminescence, mechanochromism, chiral recognition, ionic sensing, biomolecule detection, cell imaging, and in vivo phototheranostics are reported. Potential applications in room temperature phosphorescence, liquid crystals, circularly polarized luminescence, and organic lasing are also introduced in this volume.

      Youhong Tang, Flinders University, Australia

      Ben Zhong Tang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

1 AIE‐active Emitters and Their Applications in OLEDs

       Qiang Wei1,2, Jiasen Zhang1,2,3,, and Ziyi Ge1,2

       1 Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese