Advances in chiral luminescent liquid crystals (CLLCs): from molecular design to applications

Parthasarathy Gayathri, Sheng-Qi Qiu and Zhen-Qiang Yu

Mater. Horiz., 2025, 12, 5627
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Helical columnar phase of mesogen-jacketed liquid crystal polymers for efficient circularly polarized luminescence

Zui Liu, Fengyu Deng, Chunyan Fan, Yongjie Yuan and Hailiang Zhang

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12, 5896
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Cyclometalated Platinum(II) Metallomesogens Based on Half-Disc-Shaped β-Diketonate Ligands with Hexacatenar: Crystal Structures, Mesophase Properties, and Semiconductor Devices

Guo Zou, Shanrong Zhang, Shishi Feng, Qihuan Li, Bo Yang, Yi Zhao, Kaijun Luo and Ting-Bin Wen

Inorg. Chem., 2022, 61, 11702
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A color-change fluorescence sensor for oleanolic acid based on chiral camphanic decorated bis-cyanostilbene

Xiaoting Fang, Jing Wang, Jiamin Chen, Hongyu Guo and Fafu Yang

Anal Bioanal Chem, 2023, 415, 1855
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Multi-color tunable and white circularly polarized luminescent of nanomaterials fabricated by supramolecular chiral complexes

Yanshan Sheng, Yuhong Shen, Yutong Xie, Xueqi Tian and Xiao-Yu Hu

Materials Today Chemistry, 2025, 48, 103014
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Research progress on AIE cyanostilbene-based self-assembly gels: Design, regulation and applications

Aiping Gao, Qingqing Wang, Huijuan Wu, Jun-Wei Zhao and Xinhua Cao

Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2022, 471, 214753
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“Turn-on” fluorescence sensor for vitamin B1 based on cyanostilbene macrocycle

Jiaojiao Chen, Xinyao Huang, Hui Tang, Hongyu Guo and Fafu Yang

Dyes and Pigments, 2022, 207, 110705
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A novel strategy for constructing fluorescent liquid crystals with diphenylacrylonitrile groups derivatives based on Thiazolo[5,4-d]thiazole core

Huiyi Feng, Yong He, Wenqing Yang, Sheng Wang and Yi-si Feng

Journal of Molecular Structure, 2023, 1274, 134582
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An effective fluorescence sensor for herbicide haloxyfop-P-methyl based on cyclic bicyanostilbene imidazole salt

Yunmei Wu, Pengpeng Wang, Linlu Zheng, Hongyu Guo and Fafu Yang

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2023, 380, 133330
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High solid-state CPL active materials based on chiral BINOL-dicyanodistyrylbenzene

Huiyi Feng, Junrong Pu, Sheng Wang, Shengjie Jiang, Wenqing Yang, Derong Cao and Yi-Si Feng

Dyes and Pigments, 2023, 217, 111422
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Recent advances in chiral aggregation-induced emission fluorogens

Rui Hu, Yuncong Yuan, Meijia Gu and You-Quan Zou

Engineered Regeneration, 2022, 3, 323
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Highly CPL-active materials via columnar self-assembly of R-BINOL-cyanostilbene derivatives

Huiyi Feng, Linlin Zhu, Hongrui Gao, Wenqing Yang and Yi-Si Feng

Dyes and Pigments, 2025, 240, 112858
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Recent Advances in Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Liquid Crystalline Aggregation‐Induced Emission Materials

Ruijuan Liao, Mingsi Xie, Zhijia Zhang, Xiaoli Song, Ao Zhang, Yi Fang, Chunxiu Zhang and Haifeng Yu

Advanced Optical Materials, 2026, 14
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High circularly polarized luminescent liquid crystals based on R-binaphthol-cyanostilbene

Tianwen Fan, Pingting Zhuang, Liangbin Lin, Hongyu Guo and Fafu Yang

Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2025, 427, 127413
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Crown ether-bridging tetra-cyanostilbene macrocycle: an effective “turn-on” fluorescent sensor for the pesticide carbendazim

Hongyu Guo, Yumeng Hou, Xiaoting Fang, Liangbin Lin and Fafu Yang

Anal Bioanal Chem, 2025, 417, 6601
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Highly CPL-active liquid crystals based on the covalent bond linkage with R-binaphthyl and cyanostilbene

Huiyi Feng, Chenglong Zheng, Zhiyan Zhang, Yuxuan Qi, Sheng Wang and Yi-Si Feng

Dyes and Pigments, 2024, 230, 112357
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Recent Progress in Functional Dye‐Doped Liquid Crystal Devices

Wenbo Shen, Huimin Zhang, Zongcheng Miao and Zihui Ye

Adv Funct Materials, 2023, 33
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Inverted and Amplified CP‐EL Behavior Promoted by AIE‐Active Chiral Co‐Assembled Helical Nanofibers

Zhongxing Geng, Zheng Liu, Hang Li, Yu Zhang, Wenhua Zheng, Yiwu Quan and Yixiang Cheng

Advanced Materials, 2023, 35
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Novel AIE liquid crystals with high CPL-active bearing multiple dodecyl/cholesterol-decorated R-BINOL-cyanostilbene

Huiyi Feng, Mingming Li, Sheng Wang and Yi-Si Feng

Journal of Molecular Structure, 2025, 1320, 139726
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Tetra-Cyanostilbene Macrocycle: An Effective “Turn-On” Fluorescence Sensor for Oxalic Acid in Aqueous Media

Fafu Yang, Ying Gong, Shuting Fang, Yijie Zheng and Hongyu Guo

SSRN Journal, 2022
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Tetraarylimidazole-based fluorescence sensor for halosulfuron-methyl

Zengwei Yang, Xianyu Huang, Liangbin Lin, Hongyu Guo and Fafu Yang

Dyes and Pigments, 2024, 222, 111860
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First Gemini-type fluorescent ionic liquid crystals: Synthesis, fluorescence emission and self-assembly in liquid crystals and gels

Yunmei Wu, Hui Tan, Liangbin Lin, Hongyu Guo and Fafu Yang

Dyes and Pigments, 2022, 206, 110667
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Tetra-cyanostilbene macrocycle: An effective “turn-on” fluorescence sensor for oxalic acid in aqueous media

Ying Gong, Shuting Fang, Yijie Zheng, Hongyu Guo and Fafu Yang

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 2023, 435, 114307
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Turn-on circularly polarized luminescence for dynamical-racemic and large-hollow AIE macrocycle based on selective recognition for ursolic acid

Shibing Chen, Minqian Zhu, Xiangfei Xu, Hongyu Guo and Fafu Yang

Dyes and Pigments, 2023, 219, 111530
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Cyanostilbene Bridged Triphenylene Dyad Stimuli-Responsive Discotic Liquid Crystal: Synthesis, Properties and Applications

Chongyang Zeng, Ping Hu, Biqin Wang, Wenyan Fang and Keqing Zhao

Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2023, 43, 3287
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A turn-on fluorescent sensor for Al3+ based on a crown ether-bridged biscyanostilbene carboxylic derivative

Ting Yang, Xinhui Huang, Liangbin Lin, Hongyu Guo and Fafu Yang

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 2025, 462, 116262
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Controllable CPL response driven by achiral UV-photosensitive dichroic dye through cholesteric liquid crystals

Yihan Chen, Yang Li, Hang Li, Lulu Li, Yiwu Quan and Yixiang Cheng

Sci. China Chem., 2024, 67, 1250
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Novel liquid crystals with circularly polarized luminescence induced by tartaric core

Tianwen Fan, Xinyao Huang, Sining Zheng, Hongyu Guo and Fafu Yang

Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2022, 367, 120380
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Sandwiched naphthyl carbazole: Inversion Circularly Polarized Luminescence based on a pull‐push electron valve strategy

Qi Qi, Li Junfeng and Sun Yueming

Luminescence, 2024, 39
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High circularly polarized luminescence based on hydrogen-bonding columnar mesophase of an AIE-active mesogen with stronger D-A structure

Hongyu Guo, Yanling Huang, Liangbin Lin, Shibing Chen and Fafu Yang

Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2025, 426, 127323
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