Recent development of chemosensors based on cyanine platforms

W Sun, S Guo, C Hu, J Fan, X Peng - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
The cyanine platforms including cyanine, hemicyanine, and squaraine are good candidates
for developing chemosensors because of their excellent photophysical properties …

Triplet photosensitizers: from molecular design to applications

J Zhao, W Wu, J Sun, S Guo - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Triplet photosensitizers (PSs) are compounds that can be efficiently excited to the triplet
excited state which subsequently act as catalysts in photochemical reactions. The name is …

Real-time tracking and in vivo visualization of β-galactosidase activity in colorectal tumor with a ratiometric near-infrared fluorescent probe

K Gu, Y Xu, H Li, Z Guo, S Zhu, S Zhu… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Development of “smart” noninvasive bioimaging probes for trapping specific enzyme
activities is highly desirable for cancer therapy in vivo. Given that β-galactosidase (β-gal) is …

Recent advances of the emitters for high performance deep-blue organic light-emitting diodes

X Yang, X Xu, G Zhou - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Blue organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) can play a critical role in the field of organic
electroluminescence (EL). As the most important applications of OLEDs, both new …

Towards more accurate bioimaging of drug nanocarriers: turning aggregation-caused quenching into a useful tool

J Qi, X Hu, X Dong, Y Lu, H Lu, W Zhao… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2019 - Elsevier
One of the current challenges in the monitoring of drug nanocarriers lies in the difficulties in
discriminating the carrier-bound signals from the bulk signals of probes. Environment …

In Vivo and in Situ Tracking Cancer Chemotherapy by Highly Photostable NIR Fluorescent Theranostic Prodrug

X Wu, X Sun, Z Guo, J Tang, Y Shen… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
In vivo monitoring of the biodistribution and activation of prodrugs is urgently required. Near
infrared (NIR) fluorescence-active fluorophores with excellent photostability are preferable …

High‐performance quinoline‐malononitrile core as a building block for the diversity‐oriented synthesis of AIEgens

Z Guo, C Yan, WH Zhu - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In vivo fluorescent monitoring of physiological processes with high‐fidelity is essential in
disease diagnosis and biological research, but faces extreme challenges due to …

A dual-response BODIPY-based fluorescent probe for the discrimination of glutathione from cystein and homocystein

F Wang, L Zhou, C Zhao, R Wang, Q Fei, S Luo… - Chemical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
In situ monitoring of intracellular thiol activity in cell growth and function is highly desirable.
However, the discriminative detection of glutathione (GSH) from cysteine (Cys) and …

Divulging indolium inspired cyanide sensors: Did it win the throne?

A Ranolia, J Sindhu, P Kumar, S Kumar - Coordination Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cyanide is considered to be the most toxic anion in biological system as its excessive
exposure leads to respiratory problem, nervous system disorder and ultimately death. Over …

Red and near infrared emission materials with AIE characteristics

Q Zhao, JZ Sun - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) materials show faint emission or even non-emission
when dissolved in good solvents but strong emission in the aggregate and/or solid states …