Fig. 1. (a) Synthetic route of AIE-Y-SOG. (b) Normalized absorbance (black line) and normalized fluorescence (blue line) spectra of AIE-Y-SOG in PBS buffer, λex = 385 nm. (c) Effect of solubility of AIE-Y-SOG in PBS/DMSO mixture at different fraction on photoluminescence (PL) spectra. Inset of 1c shows the color photograph of the AIE-Y-SOG in DMSO (right) and PBS (left) solution, respectively under 365 nm UV excitation. (d) Degradation of 9,10-anthracenediyl-bis(methylene)dimalonic acid (ABDA, 50 μM) in the presence of AIE-Y-SOG (10 μM) in PBS buffer under white light (40 mW cm−2) irradiation at different duration.
