Direct visualization and real-time monitoring of dissipative self-assembly by synchronously coupled aggregation-induced emission

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (12) ◽  
pp. 2651-2655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen-Chao Geng ◽  
Yan-Cen Liu ◽  
Zhe Zheng ◽  
Dan Ding ◽  
Dong-Sheng Guo

Dissipative self-assembly was clearly visualized and real-time monitored throughin situintrinsic aggregation-induced emission fluorescence only in the assembly state.

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (63) ◽  
pp. 9008-9011
Author(s):  
Yafeng Wu ◽  
Yaqiong Gao ◽  
Juan Su ◽  
Zixuan Chen ◽  
Songqin Liu

Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) nanoprobes were developed for in situ imaging and real-time monitoring of intracellular tissue transglutaminase (TG2).


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine A. Kelly ◽  
Judith E. Houston ◽  
Rachel Evans

Understanding the dynamic self-assembly behaviour of azobenzene photosurfactants (AzoPS) is crucial to advance their use in controlled release applications such as<i></i>drug delivery and micellar catalysis. Currently, their behaviour in the equilibrium <i>cis-</i>and <i>trans</i>-photostationary states is more widely understood than during the photoisomerisation process itself. Here, we investigate the time-dependent self-assembly of the different photoisomers of a model neutral AzoPS, <a>tetraethylene glycol mono(4′,4-octyloxy,octyl-azobenzene) </a>(C<sub>8</sub>AzoOC<sub>8</sub>E<sub>4</sub>) using small-angle neutron scattering (SANS). We show that the incorporation of <i>in-situ</i>UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy with SANS allows the scattering profile, and hence micelle shape, to be correlated with the extent of photoisomerisation in real-time. It was observed that C<sub>8</sub>AzoOC<sub>8</sub>E<sub>4</sub>could switch between wormlike micelles (<i>trans</i>native state) and fractal aggregates (under UV light), with changes in the self-assembled structure arising concurrently with changes in the absorption spectrum. Wormlike micelles could be recovered within 60 seconds of blue light illumination. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time the degree of AzoPS photoisomerisation has been tracked <i>in</i><i>-situ</i>through combined UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy-SANS measurements. This technique could be widely used to gain mechanistic and kinetic insights into light-dependent processes that are reliant on self-assembly.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marios Sophocleous ◽  
Pericles Savva ◽  
Michael F. Petrou ◽  
John K. Atkinson ◽  
Julius Georgiou

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 925-933 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. E. Colmán ◽  
D. L. Chicoma ◽  
R. Giudici ◽  
P. H. H. Araújo ◽  
C. Sayer

2014 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 372-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renaud Boisseau ◽  
Ugo Bussy ◽  
Patrick Giraudeau ◽  
Mohammed Boujtita

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document