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Harnessing Dual Phototherapy and Immune Activation for Cancer Treatment: The Development and Application of BODIPY@F127 Nanoparticles
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Glutathione‐Driven Disassembly of Planar Organic Phototherapeutic Agents to Enhance Photodynamic‐Photothermal Therapy Performance for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
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Molecular Engineering of AIE‐Active Photosensitizers with High Biosafety for Effect Extracellular Antibacteria
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Near‐Infrared Light‐Driving Organic Photothermal Agents with an 88.9% Photothermal Conversion Efficiency for Image‐Guided Synergistic Phototherapy
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Exploration of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence (TADF)-Based Photoredox Catalyst To Establish the Mechanisms of Action for Photodynamic Therapy
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A novel fluorescent probe based on dicyanoisophorone for the detection of tetracycline antibiotics and its application to water samples
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Increasing Molecular Planarity through Donor/Side‐Chain Engineering for Improved NIR‐IIa Fluorescence Imaging and NIR‐II Photothermal Therapy under 1064 nm
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A Water‐Soluble AIEgen for Noninvasive Diagnosis of Kidney Fibrosis via SWIR Fluorescence and Photoacoustic Imaging
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Reviewing the evolutive ACQ‐to‐AIE transformation of photosensitizers for phototheranostics
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Rational Molecular Designing of Aggregation-Enhanced Emission (AEE) Active Red-Emitting Iridium(III) Complexes: Effect of Lipophilicity and Nanoparticle Encapsulation on Photodynamic Therapy Efficacy
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Molecularly manipulating pyrazinoquinoxaline derivatives to construct NIR-II AIEgens for multimodal phototheranostics of breast cancer bone metastases
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As Aggregation‐Induced Emission Meets with Noncovalent Conformational Locks: Subtly Regulating NIR‐II Molecules for Multimodal Imaging‐Navigated Synergistic Therapies
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A mitochondrion-targeting two-photon photosensitizer with aggregation-induced emission characteristics for hypoxia-tolerant photodynamic therapy
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A New Theranostic Platform Against Gram‐Positive Bacteria Based on Near‐Infrared‐Emissive Aggregation‐Induced Emission Nanoparticles
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New Janus Organic Type-I Photosensitizer Capable of Transforming Glutathione from Opponent to Ally for Assisting Photodynamic Therapy
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Photosensitizing Quantum Dot Killers Encoded by Bivalent DNA for Sequential Cell Penetration, Intracellular Bacterial Imaging, and Targeted Elimination
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Regulating excited state of local excitation and charge transfer to boost phototherapeutic effect of AIE-active free radical photosensitizer
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Design and synthesis of triphenylphosphine-based donor-π-acceptor fluorophores with strong aggregation-induced emission and enantiomer-paired flower-like stacking
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An NIR‐III 3P Excitable AIE Nanoprobe for High‐Quality Intravital Deep‐Brain Angiography
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Recent progress in NIR-II fluorescence imaging-guided drug delivery for cancer theranostics
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