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Multifunctional Fluorescent Probes for Chemical Warfare Agents Phosgene and Sarin Simulant: Heteroatom Engineering-Driven Performance Enhancement

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Molecular Probes for Sulfatase Detection and Bio‐Imaging

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Bright Ratiometric Fluorescent Thermometer in a Spin Crossover Molecule toward Visualization of Spin-State Equilibria

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A Dual-Functional NIR Fluorescent Probe for Detection SO2 Derivatives and Colorimetric Sensing pH as well as its Applications in Food Monitoring and Hepatoma Cells Imaging

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Stereochemistry‐Dependent Labeling of Organelles with a Near‐Infrared‐Emissive Phosphorus‐Bridged Rhodamine Dye in Live‐Cell Imaging

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A near-infrared “turn-on” fluorescent probe for selective detection of copper(II) ions in aqueous media and its application in cell imaging

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An Imidazole-Naphthalimide-Based pH-Sensitive Molecular Probe for Selective Detection of Picric Acid and Cell Imaging

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Organelle-Targeting Polymer Dots Exhibiting Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence for Subcellular Imaging

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Multichannel fluorescent probes for discriminative detection

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Ratiometric photoelectrochemical sensors: advances in food analysis and emerging applications

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Novel isophorone fluorescent probe for ratiometric peroxynitrite imaging in vivo

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Photoisomerization-engineered fluorescent probe for innovative detection and bioimaging of salicylic acid during salt stress in plants

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Dynamic insights into mitochondrial function: Monitoring viscosity and SO2 levels in living cells

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Recent Advances in the Application of Mitochondria-targeted Fluorescent Probes

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From beacon to bonfire: A concentration-dependent fluorescent cascade for amplified reporting of peroxynitrite flux

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Exposure to nanoplastics induces the elevation of Zn2+ levels in cells as visualized by a Golgi apparatus-targetable ratiometric fluorescent nanosensor

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Thermally stable strongly fluorescent multi-stimuli responsive carbazole zwitterionic fluorophores: Alkyl chain length dependent thermofluorochromism and latent fingerprinting

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Targeted Photoconvertible BODIPYs Based on Directed Photooxidation-Induced Conversion for Applications in Photoconversion and Live Super-Resolution Imaging

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Lighting Up Nucleolus To Report Mitochondria Damage Using a Mitochondria-to-Nucleolus Migration Probe

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A novel mitochondrial-targeted fluorescent probe for ratiometric imaging of nitric oxide in cells and zebrafish

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Carbon dots toward organelles and their microenvironment: From synthetic design to biomedical applications

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A New and Fast-Response Fluorescent Probe for Monitoring Hypochlorous Acid Derived from Myeloperoxidase

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Bioorthogonal Chemistry in Cellular Organelles

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Theoretical Investigations on the Sensing Mechanism of Dicyanoisophorone Fluorescent Probe for the Detection of Hydrogen Sulfide

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A ratiometric NIR two-photon probe for biothiols detection in cellular autophagy and liver injury models

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Ratiometric afterglow luminescence: Emerging paradigm for reliable quantitative bio-imaging and disease monitoring

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