1 Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China. mqzhu@hust.edu.cn chongli@hust.edu.cn.
We design and synthesize terrylenediimide-tetraphenylethene dyads, which exhibit featured aggregation-induced near-infrared fluorescence with a maximum emission wavelength of up to 800 nm.