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In this study, aggregation-induced photon upconversion (iPUC) is demonstrated in the small polyaromatic molecule, pyrene. In binary-solvent mixtures, water, which induces the aggregation of polyaromatic molecules, assisted in triplet-triplet annihilation-based upconversion. No upconverted emission was observed in a dry solvent. Although upconverted emission in the absence of a triplet sensitizer was assigned to pyrene-aggregate-induced sensitization, the presence of a triplet sensitizer enhanced the upconversion efficiency. This experimental finding was further simulated to explore the possibility of iPUC in the condensed-phase polymer matrix. We studied 2-aminoethyl methacrylate hydrochloride-polystyrene copolymer nanoparticles embedded with the molecular upconversion system. The nanoparticle iPUC agreed with the proposition that water domains were present in polymer nanoparticles and helped aggregate pyrene in the host polymer. Despite the low systemic upconversion efficiency, this study provides a method for achieving fluorescence upconversion in relatively simple systems.
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