Dual AIE and Visible-Light-Driven Photoswitchable Polymer for Super-resolution Imaging
Photochromic polymers and aggregation-induced emission (AIE) materials show great potential for many applications. To explore the synergy of both characteristics in polymer material areas, we reported the first synthesis of tetraphenylethylene (TPE)-diarylethene (DAE) polymer and its application as a super-resolution probe for imaging self-assembled cylindrical micelles of PSt38k-<i>b</i>-PEO11k. The polymer exhibits high fluorescence ON/OFF ratios, visible-light-driven photocycloreversion, and AIE properties. Compared with other DAE materials studied in super-resolution imaging, our polymer shows advantages of visible-light-driven photocycloreversion, higher resolution, higher fluorescence quantum yield, or higher thermal stability.
Authors
- Qinghai Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3593-1521)
- Ruiyao Li
- Shengxiong Xiao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9151-9558)
- Fan Xiao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4048-2425)
- Chengxin Huang
- Ming‐Qiang Zhu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8886-4166)
- Feng-Yu Zhu
- Chong Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0453-2496)
- Dongyuan Zhu
- Shuai Hou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2112-2020)
- Jingjing Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3838-624X)
- Hongbo Yu
- Mei Wu
Institutions
- Shanghai Normal University (CN)
- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (CN)
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
- Published
- 2025-04-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5c03246
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.52
Funders
- Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province
- Higher Education Discipline Innovation Project
- International Joint Laboratory of Resource Chemistry
- Shanghai Municipal People's Government
- National Key Research and Development Program of China