For decades now, photoacoustic imaging (PAI) has been investigated to realize its potential
as a niche biomedical imaging modality. Despite its highly desirable optical contrast and …

Food fermentation, antibiotics, and pollutant degradation are closely related to bacteria.
Bacteria play an irreplaceable role in life. However, some bacteria seriously threaten human …

Live cell discrimination is the first and essential step to understand complex biosystems.
Conventional cell discrimination involving various antibodies relies on selective surface …

Cationic agents, such as ionic liquids (ILs)-based species, have broad-spectrum
antibacterial activities. However, the antibacterial mechanisms lack systematic and …

Herein, we describe an energy balance strategy between fluorescence and photoacoustic
effects by sulfur substitution to transform existing hemicyanine dyes (Cy) into optimized …

Abstract Treatment of infected wounds remains a challenge owing to antibiotic resistance;
thus, developing smart biomaterials for the healing of infected wounds is urgently needed. In …

Currently optical-based techniques for in vivo microbial population imaging are limited by
low imaging depth and highly light-scattering tissue; and moreover, are generally effective …

Multidrug resistance (MDR) bacteria pose a serious threat to human health. The
development of alternative treatment modalities and therapeutic agents for treating MDR …

Pancreatic cancer (PC) is one of the most devastating malignant tumors. However,
fluorescence probes for early clinical diagnosis of PC often encounter difficulties in accuracy …

Due to the low autofluorescence and deep-photo penetration, the second near-infrared
region fluorescence imaging technology (NIR-II, 1000–2000 nm) has been widely utilized in …