Aggregation-induced emission” of transition metal compounds: Design, mechanistic insights, and applications

Abstract

In the last decades, compounds with ‘Aggregation-Induced Emission’ (AIE), which are weakly or non-emissive at all in solution but exhibit a strong luminescence in aggregated states, have emerged as an extraordinary breakthrough in the field of luminescent materials, allowing to circumvent ‘Aggregation Caused Quenching’ (ACQ), which in many cases prevents the development of efficient solid-state materials for optoelectronic applications.