Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a new class of porous crystalline materials
constructed from organic ligands and metal ions/clusters. Owing to their unique advantages …

Metal cations and anions are essential for versatile physiological processes. Dysregulation
of specific ion levels in living organisms is known to have an adverse effect on normal …

The past two decades have witnessed significant advances in the field of aggregation-
induced emission (AIE). Luminescent materials with AIE characteristics (AIEgens) are of …

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 …

Signal generation techniques for visual detection of analytes have received a great deal of
attention in various sensing fields. These approaches are considered to be advantageous …

Aggregation-induced emission (AIE)-active micelles are a type of fluorescent functional
materials that exhibit enhanced emissions in the aggregated surfactant state. They have …

The field of supramolecular chemistry has been flourishing since J.-M. Lehn, DJ Cram, and
CJ Pedersen were awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. By Prof. Lehn's definition, 1 …

In the past few decades, the development of chemosensors has become an important
research topic in supramolecular analytical chemistry, and as a result, it has attracted the …

Chromogenic and fluorogenic probes may be described as the reagents that can interact
with analytes (targets) accompanied by the changes of their spectroscopic (chromogenic, or …

The long wavelength (far-red to NIR) analyte-responsive fluorescent probes are
advantageous for in vivo bioimaging because of minimum photo-damage to biological …