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Multi-stimuli-responsive aggregation-induced emission copper iodide cluster

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Stimuli-responsive luminescent materials have attracted significant attention in the development of smart photoactive materials for both fundamental research and technological applications. In this work, a new copper iodide cluster (1) with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristic, was obtained combining Cu4I4 core with rhodamine B derivative ligand. 1 has reversible and distinct multi-stimuli-responsive luminescence for external temperature, volatile organic compound, and mechanical force. Significantly, 1 exhibited unusual large blue shift (84 nm) after being ground, which originated from the change of inter-molecular interactions. Moreover, 1 exhibits high oxygen quenching efficiency for 82.2% at 1 bar. Mechanistic studies showed that the multi-stimuli-responsive luminescence properties of 1 can be attributed to the regulation of cluster-centered luminescence process, metal-to-ligand charge transfer process, halide-to-metal charge transfer luminescence process and aggregation-induced barrier to oxygen process. This work not only reports an AIE copper iodide cluster, but also provides a new strategy to develop multi-stimuli-responsive luminescence materials.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (92061201, 21825106, 22371264, 22301283), the Excellent Young Scientist Fundation of Henan Province (202300410374), the Program for Science & Technology Innovation Talents in Universities of Henan Province (22HASTIT002), and Zhongyuan Thousand Talents (Zhongyuan Scholars) Program of Henan Province (234000510007).

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  1. College of Chemistry and Pharmacy Engineering, Nanyang Normal University, Nanyang, 473061, China

    Bo Li & Ying-Jun Chen

  2. Green Catalysis Center and College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China

    Yuan-Yuan Liu, Peng Luo, Ye-Ru Liu, Kai Li & Shuang-Quan Zang

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Li, B., Liu, YY., Luo, P. et al. Multi-stimuli-responsive aggregation-induced emission copper iodide cluster. Sci. China Chem. 67, 1193–1197 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-023-1864-9

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