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Overcoming ACQ: DPA-modified TICT-type AIEgens for high-resolution and multilevel latent fingerprint visualization

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A Carbazole‐Centered Expanded Helicene Stabilized with Hexabenzocoronene (HBC) Units

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Unraveling the Novel Furan‐Based π‐Conjugated Systems: Insights From Optimally Tuned Long‐Range Corrected DFT Functionals, PBC‐DFT Methods, and Excited States Studies for Oxa[n]Helicenes

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Two‐photon Excitation of Bright Diaza[4]Helicenes for Isotropic and Circularly Polarized Emission

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A Deep‐Red Emissive Sulfur‐Doped Double [7]Helicene Photosensitizer: Synthesis, Structure and Chiral Optical Properties

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Synthesis and Photophysical Properties of a Water‐Soluble Tetrabenzotetraaza[8]Circulene Derivative With Long Lifetime Phosphorescence

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Circularly Polarized Room Temperature Red Phosphorescence from a [9]-Heterohelical Terrylene Diimide

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Unsymmetric Dithienosilole Insertion into Helicene Enhances Circularly Polarized Luminescence

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Tröger’s Base as a Potential Bridge to Type-I Photosensitizers: Mechanism and Antitumor Applications

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