Controllable assembly and cycling conversion of various supramolecular aggregates of a cyanine dye

Abstract

Constructing dye supramolecular aggregates and regulating their structures have been very important tasks in recent years due to their excellent properties and promising applications in many fields. In this paper, four kinds of aggregates have been constructed by using a cyanine dye under controllable conditions, and a simple method to realize a cycling conversion around these aggregates has been developed. To construct and regulate these aggregates were easily manipulated and identified, and could be directly observed with unaided eye.