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A Chromic and Near‐Infrared Emissive Mechanophore Serving as a Versatile Force Meter in Micelle–Hydrogel Composites
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Recent Progress of Mechanofluorochromism and Mechanoluminescence for Phenothiazine Derivatives and Analogues
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Construction of two rosin-based BioAIEgens with distinct fluorescence and mechanochromic propertites for rewritable paper
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Aggregation-induced emission characteristics and distinct fluorescent responses to external pressure stimuli based on dumbbell D-π-A-π-D cyanostyrene derivatives
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Rationally Designed Furocarbazoles as Multifunctional Aggregation Induced Emissive Luminogens for the Sensing of Trinitrophenol (TNP) and Cell Imaging
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A multi-stimuli responsive tetraphenylethene derivative: Self-reversible mechanochromism, mechanoluminescence, switchable photochromism
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Planar-to-Bent Conformational Changes in Luminescent Tetra-BF2 Complexes: Toward Smart Stimuli-Responsive Materials
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Multiple Anti‐Counterfeiting Guarantees from a Simple Tetraphenylethylene Derivative – High‐Contrasted and Multi‐State Mechanochromism and Photochromism
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Mechanoresponsive Material of AIE-Active 1,4-Dihydropyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole Luminophores Bearing Tetraphenylethylene Group with Rewritable Data Storage
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The effect of molecular symmetry on the mechanofluorochromic properties of 4H-pyran derivatives
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AIE‐Active Cyano Substituted Dimethoxy–Phenyl Derivatives for Nonlinear Optics: Spectral, Structural, and DFT Studies
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Mechanofluorochromism based on BOPIM complexes: The effect of substituents and regulation of the direction of the emission color changes
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Preparation, AIE and ESIPT behaviour, controllable solid-state fluorescence and application of Co2+ probe based on α-cyanostilbene
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Tetraphenylethene-containing cruciform luminophores with aggregation-induced emission and mechanoresponsive behavior
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α-Cyanostilbene Containing -NH2 Unit: Facile Preparation, Characterization, Solvatochromism, Acidichromism, Water Detection in Hygroscopic Organic Solvents
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π-Bridge dependent efficient aggregation-induced emission characteristic and significant mechanofluorochromic behavior
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AIEE and acidochromic properties of tetraphenylimidazole derivatives containing α-cyanostilbene group
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The effect of –CF3 substitution position on the aggregation-induced emission, solvatofluorochromism and mechanofluorochromism properties of the conjugated 9-butyl-9H-carbazole phenylacrylonitrile derivatives
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Effects of substitution position with different charge characteristics groups on mechanofluorochromic behaviors of the pyridine-based difluoroboron compounds
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The isomeric effect on structure and photophysical property of organic fluorescent material: synthesis, structures, and photophysical properties of two novel D–π–π–A prototype fluorescent material
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Designing Multifunctional AIEgens by Molecular Engineering of Imidazo[1,2‐a]pyridine For Color Tunable Molecular Salts, Anti‐Counterfeit Applications and Sensing of Mn2+, Ag+, and Fe3+
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Rational design of coumarin fluorophore with solvatochromism, AIE and mechanofluorochromic enhancement properties
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Benzofuran derived pH-responsive AIEgens: Design, synthesis and applications in monitoring the urea content in soil and food quality evaluation
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Synthesis, luminescent and multiple stimuli-responsive properties of π-extended BF2 β-diketone complexes containing an acridone unit
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Tunable Emissions in Zero‐Dimensional (C6H5CH2NH3)3InBr6 Enabled by Controlled Structural Amorphization
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Aggregation-induced emission and remarkable piezochromism based on tetraphenylethene modified cyanostilbene derivative
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Mechanochromism and Crystallization-Induced Emission Enhancement of Carbazole Derivatives with Different Terminal Groups
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Remarkable mechanofluorochromism and low efficiency-off electroluminescence from a fully aromatic D-A cruciform emitter
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A coumarin based “turn-on” type fluorescent probe for the detection of Cu2+ with mechanochromic property
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Designing Dual-State and Aggregation-Induced Emissive Luminogens from Lignocellulosic Biosourced Molecules
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Mechanofluorochromism (MFC) of Donor–π–Acceptor (D–π–A)‐Type Fluorescent Dyes
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An Unexpected 4,5‐Diphenyl‐2,7‐naphthyridine Derivative with Aggregation‐Induced Emission and Mechanofluorochromic Properties Obtained from a 3,5‐Diphenyl‐4H‐pyran Derivative
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High-contrast mechanofluorochromism of two AIE-active D-A-π-D′ deep red-emitting triphenylamine-based dicyanodiaryl derivatives
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Design of Stimuli‐Responsive Phenothiazine Derivatives with Triplet‐Related Dual Emission and High‐Contrast Mechanochromism Guided by Polymorph Prediction
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The evident aggregation-induced emission and the reversible mechano-responsive behavior of carbazole-containing cruciform luminophore
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