Fluorescent Nanofibers Self-assembled from a Diphenylanthracene Scissor-shaped Dyad

Abstract

A scissor-shaped foldable diphenylanthracene dyad has been synthesized and found to self-assemble in a nonpolar solvent into elongated thin nanofibers, showing intense blue emission. At a millimolar concentration, efficient gelation was observed while the emission property of the building block was retained in the gel state.