Light has profoundly impacted modern medicine and healthcare, with numerous
luminescent agents and imaging techniques currently being used to assess health and treat …

Cucurbit [n] urils (Q [n] s or CB [n] s), as a classical of artificial organic macrocyclic hosts,
were found to have excellent advantages in the fabricating of tunable and smart organic …

Near-infrared (NIR) fluorophores have unique features that endow them with several
advantages over conventional shorter wavelength emitting dyes. As a result, they have been …

Small-molecule based fluorescent probes are increasingly important for the detection and
imaging of biological signaling molecules due to their simplicity, high selectivity and …

The concept of aggregation‐induced emission (AIE) has opened new opportunities in many
research fields. Motivated by the unique feature of AIE fluorogens (AIEgens), during the past …

Precise design of fluorescent molecules with desired properties has enabled the rapid
development of many research fields. Among the different types of optically active materials …

Fibrillar aggregates of the amyloid-β protein (Aβ) are the main component of the senile
plaques found in brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Development of probes …

The features of well-conjugated and planar aromatic structures make π-conjugated
luminescent materials suffer from aggregation caused quenching (ACQ) effect when used in …

High-fidelity mapping of amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques is critical for the early detection of
Alzheimer's disease. However, in vivo probing of Aβ plaques by commercially available …

Light is of essential importance to the universe and humankind. Light has been, and
continues to be, one of the most fundamental and indispensable elements to life and society …