title: Recent Advances and Future Prospects of Aggregation-induced Emission Carbohydrate Polymers.
abstract: Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) is an abnormal phenomenon that has sparked great attention for diverse applications in different fields. In particular, the fabrication and biological imaging applications of AIE-active fluorescent organic nanoparticles (FONs) have become a focus in the emerging and promising fields. A large number of AIE-active polymeric nanoprobes have recently been fabricated through different strategies. The advances and progress in this direction have also recently been summarized by some groups. However, the fabrication and biomedical applications of AIE-active FONs based on carbohydrate polymers and AIE-active dyes are quite rare and limited. In this feature article, the recently reported AIE-active FONs with different structures and applications based on AIE-active dyes and carbohydrate polymers are highlighted, and the major current limitations and development tendencies are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Nanchang University, 999 Xuefu Avenue, Nanchang, 330031, China.
authors.forename: Meiying
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Nanchang University, 999 Xuefu Avenue, Nanchang, 330031, China.
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Nanchang University, 999 Xuefu Avenue, Nanchang, 330031, China.
authors.forename: Qing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wan
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Nanchang University, 999 Xuefu Avenue, Nanchang, 330031, China.
authors.forename: Fengjie
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and the Tsinghua Center for Frontier Polymer Research, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Yen
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Nanchang University, 999 Xuefu Avenue, Nanchang, 330031, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoyong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D002241:Carbohydrates / Q000737:chemistry*; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000737:chemistry*; D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*; D013194:Staining and Labeling / Q000639:trends*
chemical_list: D002241:Carbohydrates; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D011108:Polymers
keywords: aggregation-induced emission; biomedical applications; carbohydrate polymers; fluorescent organic nanoparticles