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Solar cells sensitized with doubly concerted companion dyes with optimized donors to achieve high efficiencies up to 12.5%: a record efficiency for iodine electrolyte-based DSSCs

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Designing Novel Photosensitizers Based on Pyridoquinazolinone and Its TiO2-Adsorbed Complexes with Efficient Photovoltaic Performance in DSSCs: A DFT Insight

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Metal-free phenothiazine dyes with alkoxy chains modified at different position for dye-sensitized solar cells

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Recent Progress in Phenoxazine-Based Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Compounds and Their Full-Color Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

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Towards Asymmetrical Methylene Blue Analogues: Synthesis and Reactivity of 3-N′-Arylaminophenothiazines

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Adamantyl Side Chains as Anti‐Aggregating Moieties in Dyes for Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells

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Exploring innovative synthetic solutions for advanced polymer-based electrochromic energy storage devices: Phenoxazine as a promising chromophore

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A Photoelectrochemical Sensor for the Detection of Hypochlorous Acid with a Phenothiazine-Based Photosensitizer

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Dynamic PEGylated phenothiazine imines; synthesis, photophysical behavior and reversible luminescence switching in response to external stimuli

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Current achievements and perspectives in synthesis and applications of 3,7-disubstituted phenothiazines as Methylene Blue analogues

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Multi-stimuli-responsive azomethine embedding the phenoxazine chromophore as an extra mean of tuning smart materials

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Phenothiazine Derivative-Based Photoinitiators for Ultrafast Sunlight-Induced Free Radical Polymerization and Rapid Precision 3D Printing

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β-Pyrrole functionalized push-pull BODIPYs: Synthesis, photophysical, electrochemical, thermal and computational studies

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Recent advances on phenothiazine-based oxime esters as visible light photoinitiators of polymerization

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Charge‐Transfer Modulation of Emissivity in Polarized Diketopyrrolopyrroles

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7,16-Dihydro-14H-diindolo[3,2-c:2′,3′-h]phenothiazine-based organic dyes with high molar extinction coefficient for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

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Recent Advances in Monocomponent Visible Light Photoinitiating Systems Based on Sulfonium Salts

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Carbazole- Versus Phenothiazine-Based Electron Donors for Organic Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

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ER‐Specific Localization and Stress Detection With Phenothiazine Nucleoside Fluorescent Probes

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Electrochemical and Photochemical Functionalization of Phenothiazines towards the Synthesis of N‐Aryl Phenothiazines: Recent Updates and Prospects

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Effects of different anchoring groups in phenothiazinyl-benzothiadiazolyl dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells

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Recent advances on visible light Phenothiazine-based photoinitiators of polymerization

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Synthetic Efforts to Investigate the Effect of Planarizing the Triarylamine Geometry in Dyes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

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