Light-emitting materials play a pivotal role in many applications, ranging from already conventional end-products such as LED displays and general lighting sources to advanced photonic technologies, which include information storage, encryption, optical signaling, bio-imaging, medical diagnostics, and therapy. The combination of new molecular constituents with multiple functions provides new ways for diversifying optical characteristics of materials, and for generating unconventional species with smart and tunable properties. In this project, we intend to develop new families of metal-based photoactive compounds, which are composed of specifically designed building blocks to produce dynamic and stimuli-responsive optical behavior in the solid state. New information and materials are expected to impact the fields of chemical and materials sciences, photophysics, with further extension into the areas of optoelectronics and biomedicine.

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