Achieving remarkable and reversible mechanochromism from a bright ionic AIEgen with high specificity for mitochondrial imaging and secondary aggregation emission enhancement for long-term tracking of tumors

Xinzhe Yang, Qian Wang, Peiyu Hu, Chao Xu, Wenjing Guo, Zhi Wang, Zhu Mao, Zhan Yang, Cong Liu, Guang Shi,

Materials Chemistry Frontiers · 2020 · 78 citations · 58 references

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An ionic AIEgen with high fluorescence quantum yield shows remarkable and reversible mechanochromism as well as excellent mitochondrial imaging of cancer cells and long-term tracking of tumors.

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