The practical application of organic fluorophores in bioimaging is severely limited due to
their generally poor stability. In this Highlight, we emphasize several representative …

We report a facile and general strategy for enhancing the photostability of organic
fluorophores for bioimaging applications. As a proof of concept, bright and robust …

Organic fluorophores are indispensable tools in cells, tissue and in vivo imaging, and have
enabled much progress in the wide range of biological and biomedical fields. However …

Fluorescence provides a mechanism for achieving contrast in biological imaging that
enables investigations of molecular structure, dynamics, and function at high spatial and …

Functional fluorophores represent an emerging research field, distinguished by their diverse
applications, especially in sensing and cellular imaging. After the discovery of Quinine …

Many novel fluorescent nanomaterials exhibit radically different optical properties compared
to organic fluorophores that are still the most extensively used class of fluorophores in …

Highlights•Modern microscopy methods require fluorescent labels with increased
photostability.•The photobleaching of fluorophores often involves the first triplet-excited state …

Fluorescence is a powerful tool for mapping biological events in real-time with high spatial
resolution. Ultra-bright probes are needed in order to achieve high sensitivity: these probes …

Self-assembled fluorescent nanomaterials based on small-molecule organic dyes are
gaining increasing popularity in imaging and sensing applications over the past decade …

Traditional organic fluorophores, like cyanine dyes, suffer from their poor stability and weak
brightness of individual molecule. In this work, a novel cyanine dye with a large Stokes shift …