Prediction and understanding of AIE effect by quantum mechanics-aided machine-learning algorithm.

Significant effort has been devoted to the research of aggregation-induced emission (AIE); however, the discovery of new AIE materials is driven mainly by laborious trial-and-error. In this study, taking triphenylamine (TPA)-based luminophores as an example, we propose an efficient machine-learning scheme for predicting AIE-activity based on quantum mechanics.