A light-fueled dissipative aggregation-induced emission system for time-dependent information encryption.

A light-fueled dissipative aggregation-induced emission (LDAIE) system is successfully fabricated based on reversible electrostatic interactions between cationic AIE luminogens (AIEgens) and anionic spiropyran (ASP) transformed from sulfonato-merocyanine photoacid (SMEH) upon 420 nm light irradiation. The novel LDAIE system can exhibit reversible and spontaneous AIE fluorescence on/off, showing potential in time-dependent information encryption with self-erasing ability. This work opens new opportunities to fabricate a unique fluorescent anti-counterfeiting platform with high-level security.

Smart Antifreeze Hydrogels with Abundant Hydrogen Bonding for Conductive Flexible Sensors.

Recently, flexible sensors based on conductive hydrogels have been widely used in human health monitoring, human movement detection and soft robotics due to their excellent flexibility, high water content, good biocompatibility. However, traditional conductive hydrogels tend to freeze and lose their flexibility at low temperature, which greatly limits their application in a low temperature environment. Herein, according to the mechanism that multi-hydrogen bonds can inhibit ice crystal formation by forming hydrogen bonds with water molecules, we used butanediol (BD) and N-hydroxyethyl acrylamide (HEAA) monomer with a multi-hydrogen bond structure to construct LiCl/p(HEAA--BD) conductive hydrogel with antifreeze property.