Aggregation-induced emission lights up the swelling process: a new technique for swelling characterisation of hydrogels

Javad Tavakoli; Hong-ping Zhang; Ben Zhong Tang; Youhong Tang

doi:10.1039/C9QM00054B

Aggregation-induced emission lights up the swelling process: a new technique for swelling characterisation of hydrogels†

Javad Tavakoli,

^a Hong-ping Zhang,^ab Ben Zhong Tang

*^c and Youhong Tang

*^a

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^a Institute for NanoScale Science and Technology, Medical Device Research Institute, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, South Australia 5042, Australia
E-mail: youhong.tang@flinders.edu.au

^b State Key Laboratory of Environmental Friendly Energy Materials, Engineering Research Center of Biomass Materials, Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan 621010, China

^c Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction and Institute for Advanced Study, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
E-mail: tangbenz@ust.hk

Abstract

The characterization of the swelling properties in hydrogels suffers uncertainty due to the limitations that occur during weight change measurement. The current study successfully employed an aggregation-induced emission approach to suggest a new technique for the measurement of swelling properties in hydrogels. The changes in the fluorescence properties of the swelling environment reflect the swelling process.

This article is part of the themed collection: Recent Progress on Aggregation-Induced Emission

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C9QM00054B
Article type: Research Article
Submitted: 30 Jan 2019
Accepted: 19 Feb 2019
First published: 22 Feb 2019

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Mater. Chem. Front., 2019,3, 664-667

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Aggregation-induced emission lights up the swelling process: a new technique for swelling characterisation of hydrogels

J. Tavakoli, H. Zhang, B. Z. Tang and Y. Tang, Mater. Chem. Front., 2019, 3, 664 DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00054B

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Aggregation-induced emission lights up the swelling process: a new technique for swelling characterisation of hydrogels†

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