Creation of highly efficient solid emitter by decorating pyrene core with AIE-active tetraphenylethene peripheries.

Turning "stone" into "gold": pyrene, a faint fluorophore in the solid state, is transformed into a bright emitter by decorating it with tetraphenylethene units; the new luminogen is thermally and morphologically stable and its light-emitting diode shows excellent performance, with external quantum efficiency and current efficiency up to 4.95% and 12.3 cd A(-1), respectively.

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