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Rational Design of a Near-infrared Fluorescent Material with High Solid-state Efficiency, Aggregation-induced Emission and Live Cell Imaging Property

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Near-infrared(NIR) fluorescent materials with high photoluminescent quantum yields(PLQYs) have wide application prospects. Therefore, we design and synthesize a D-A type NIR organic molecule, TPATHCNE, in which triphenylamine and thiophene are utilized as the donors and fumaronitrile is applied as the acceptor. We systematically investigate its molecular structure and photophysical property. TPATHCNE shows high Tg of 110 °C and Td of 385 °C and displays an aggregation-induced emission(AIE) property. A narrow optical bandgap of 1.65 eV is obtained. The non-doped film of TPATHCNE exhibits a high PLQY of 40.3% with an emission peak at 732 nm, which is among the best values of NIR emitters. When TPATHCNE is applied in organic light-emitting diode(OLED), the electroluminescent peak is located at 716 nm with a maximum external quantum efficiency of 0.83%. With the potential in cell imaging, the polystyrene maleic anhydride(PMSA) modified TPATHCNE nanoparticles(NPs) emit strong fluorescence when labeling HeLa cancer cells, suggesting that TPATHCNE can be used as a fluorescent carrier for specific staining or drug delivery for cellular imaging. TPATHCNE NPs fabricated by bovine serum protein(BSA) are cultivated with mononuclear yeast cells, and the intense intracellular red fluorescence indicates that it can be adopted as a specific stain for imaging.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.22075100).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, P. R. China

    Anqi Shang, Lele Zhao, Zhenhua Li, Zhuang Cheng, Haixu Jin, Zijun Feng, Zhijun Chen & Ping Lu

  2. State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, 066004, P. R. China

    Lele Zhao & Haiquan Zhang

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Shang, A., Zhao, L., Li, Z. et al. Rational Design of a Near-infrared Fluorescent Material with High Solid-state Efficiency, Aggregation-induced Emission and Live Cell Imaging Property. Chem. Res. Chin. Univ. 38, 1461–1466 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40242-022-2046-5

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