title: Aggregation induced emission: Concluding Remarks.
abstract: This article presents the Closing Remarks of the Faraday Discussion on aggregation induced emission (AIE) held in Guangzhou, China in November 2016. The history of the AIE phenomenon is summarized, from its discovery and mechanistic studies to real-life applications in optoelectronics, environmental monitoring and biomedical research. The paper concludes with comments on the future perspectives of the field.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117585. cheliub@nus.edu.sg.
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Ruoyu
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D004581:Electronics; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D005453:Fluorescence; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000737:chemistry; D055620:Optical Phenomena
chemical_list: D005456:Fluorescent Dyes