An efficient artificial light-harvesting system with tunable emission in water constructed from a H-bonded AIE
Tangxin Xiao1, Haoran Wu, Guangping Sun
1School of Petrochemical Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou, 213164, China. xiaotangxin@cczu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
With the aid of CTAB amphiphile, water-phase artificial light-harvesting systems were fabricated as nanoparticles by the self-assembly of two low-molecular-weight organic molecules: a UPy-functionalized TPE derivative 1 with both supramolecular polymerization and AIE capabilities as a donor and a fluorescent chromophore NiR as an acceptor. Owing to the flexibility of supramolecular self-assembly, tunable emissions including white-light emission could be easily realized with high energy transfer efficiency and the antenna effect.


