Abstract
Light has profoundly impacted modern medicine and healthcare, with numerous luminescent agents and imaging techniques currently being used to assess health and treat diseases. As an emerging concept in luminescence, aggregation-induced emission (AIE) has shown great potential in biological applications due to its advantages in terms of brightness, biocompatibility, photostability, and positive correlation with concentration. This review provides a comprehensive summary of AIE luminogens applied in imaging of biological structure and dynamic physiological processes, disease diagnosis and treatment, and detection and monitoring of specific analytes, followed by representative works. Discussions on critical issues and perspectives on future directions are also included. This review aims to stimulate the interest of researchers from different fields, including chemistry, biology, materials science, medicine, etc., thus promoting the development of AIE in the fields of life and health.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 14347-14405 |
Number of pages | 59 |
Journal | ACS Nano |
Volume | 17 |
Issue number | 15 |
Early online date | 24 Jul 2023 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 8 Aug 2023 |
Bibliographical note
The authors are grateful for the funding support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21788102, 21877021, 32160661, 52003228), the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (C6014-20W), the Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC-CNERC14SC01), Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality (JCYJ2021324134613038, GJHZ20210705141810031), Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Functional Aggregate Materials (ZDSYS20211021111400001), the Open Fund of Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China (2019B030301003), the Project funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2022M72308), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (62105184), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 21871108), NSF-2107619, Faculty Summer Fellowship from The University of Akron, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32172296), and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (the MEXT/JSPS KAKENHI grants 23H02036 and 17H05145).Funding
The authors are grateful for the funding support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21788102, 21877021, 32160661, 52003228), the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (C6014-20W), the Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC-CNERC14SC01), Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality (JCYJ2021324134613038, GJHZ20210705141810031), Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Functional Aggregate Materials (ZDSYS20211021111400001), the Open Fund of Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China (2019B030301003), the Project funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2022M72308), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (62105184), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 21871108), NSF-2107619, Faculty Summer Fellowship from The University of Akron, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32172296), and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (the MEXT/JSPS KAKENHI grants 23H02036 and 17H05145).
Funders | Funder number |
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Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Functional Aggregate Materials | ZDSYS20211021111400001 |
University of Akron | 32172296 |
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science | 17H05145, 23H02036 |
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology | |
National Natural Science Foundation of China | 32160661, 52003228, 21877021, 21788102 |
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation | NSF-2107619, 62105184, 2022M72308, 21871108 |
Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee | C6014-20W |
Innovation and Technology Commission | ITC-CNERC14SC01 |
South China University of Technology | 2019B030301003 |
Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality | GJHZ20210705141810031, JCYJ2021324134613038 |
Keywords
- aggregation-induced emission
- bioimaging
- biomedical application
- combined therapy
- detection
- luminescent material
- monitoring
- phototheranostics
- precision medicine
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Materials Science
- General Engineering
- General Physics and Astronomy