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Significant Enhancement of Two-Photon Excited Fluorescence in Water-Soluble Triphenylamine-Based All-Organic Compounds
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Recent Advances in the Photoreactions Triggered by Porphyrin-Based Triplet–Triplet Annihilation Upconversion Systems: Molecular Innovations and Nanoarchitectonics
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Position isomers of Ru(II) polypyridine complexes with tunable photophysical properties, aggregation-induced phosphorescence enhancement and application in triplet-triplet annihilated upconversion
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Ultrasensitive Colloidal Quantum-Dot Upconverters for Extended Short-Wave Infrared
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Improved performance of thermally activated delayed fluorescence white organic light-emitting diodes achieved by bulk-interfacial exciplex integrated system
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Twisted Anthracene-Fused BODIPY: Intersystem Crossing and Torsion-Induced Non-Radiative Relaxation of the Singlet Excited State
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Temperature dependence of resonance energy transfer in DCM doped anthracene nanoaggregates
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Photon Upconversion Cooperates with Downshifting in Chiral Systems: Modulation, Amplification, and Applications of Circularly Polarized Luminescence
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Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting through Bismuth Vanadate with a Photon Upconversion Luminescent Reflector
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Long‐lived Triplet Excited State of Perylenemonoimide (PMI) in a Diimine Pt(II) Bis‐acetylide Complex: Preparation and Study of the Photophysical Property with Transient Spectra
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Visualized time-temperature monitoring by triplet-sensitized ratiometric fluorescent nanosensors
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Long-Lived Local Triplet Excited State and Charge Transfer State of 4,4′-Dimethoxy Triphenylamine-BODIPY Compact Electron Donor/Acceptor Dyads
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Pyrimidyl-substituted anthracene fluorophores: Syntheses, absorption spectra, and photophysical properties
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Thionated Coumarins: Study of the Intersystem Crossing and the Zero‐field Splitting of the Triplet State Using Time‐Resolved Transient Optical and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopies
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Amplifying Dissymmetry Factor of Upconverted Circularly Polarized Luminescence through Chirality-Induced Spin Polarization in the Photon Upconversion Process
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Triplet-triplet annihilation photon up-conversion: Accessing triplet excited states with minimum energy loss
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Electron Spin Dynamics of the Intersystem Crossing in Aminoanthraquinone Derivatives: The Spectral Telltale of Short Triplet Excited States
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Dual-channel NO2−/ Hg2+ detections based on upconversion/downshifting
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Harvesting of the infrared energy: Direct collection, up-conversion, and storage
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Recent Progress in Enhancing Photocatalytic Performance through Upconversion Process
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Sandwich‐Type Porphyrin Complexes as Efficient Sensitizers for Triplet‐Triplet Annihilation Upconversion
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