Cationic Tricyclic AIEgens for Concomitant Bacterial Discrimination and Inhibition

New ionic compounds with aggregation‐induced emission (AIE) feature has been widely studied. These AIE‐based luminogens (AIEgens) not only effectively resolve aggregation‐caused quenching (ACQ) problems that are encountered for most of conventional fluorescent dyes, but also exhibit promising applications in biological imaging, potentially for a wide variety of diseases. However, such an AIE system needs to be further developed. In this work, a...