“…The chemiluminescent reactions in the solution, the hydrogel, and the lyophilized hydrogel are illustrated in Figure 2. The significant enhancement of the CL of Gel 1 + 2 A C H T U N G T R E N N U N G [3,4] relative to that of [3,4] can be ascribed to the following two aspects: i) the medium in the hydrogel (similar to the cytoplasm in the cell and the surfactant micelle [16] ) would be expected to be highly viscous, which would slow Brownian diffusion of excited 5, [15,17] thus reducing quenching; ii) the diffusion of excited 5 around and within the nanofibers was restricted by p-p interactions, which would tend to minimize the energy loss in excited 5 via rotational diffusion. In fact, the hypothesis regarding p-p interactions seems reasonable because…”