One-pot synthesis and properties of well-defined butadiynylene-BODIPY oligomers

Wenxing Zhang, Wanle Sheng, Changjiang Yu, Yun Wei, Hua Wang, Erhong Hao and Lijuan Jiao

Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 5318
DOI: 10.1039/C7CC02393F

Polymerase synthesis of DNA labelled with benzylidene cyanoacetamide-based fluorescent molecular rotors: fluorescent light-up probes for DNA-binding proteins

Dmytro Dziuba, Radek Pohl and Michal Hocek

Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 4880
DOI: 10.1039/C5CC00530B

Photophysical properties of 4-(5-methylthiophen-2-yl)pyridinium–cyclic enolate betaine dyes tuned by control of twisted intramolecular transfer

Yuichiro Hayashi, Naoya Suzuki, Takeshi Maeda, Hideki Fujiwara and Shigeyuki Yagi

New J. Chem., 2021, 45, 9770
DOI: 10.1039/D1NJ00714A

Construing the metaxin-2 mediated simultaneous localization between mitochondria and nucleolus using molecular viscometry

Tanoy Dutta, Sreeparna Das, Ishaan Gupta and Apurba Lal Koner

Chem. Sci., 2022, 13, 12987
DOI: 10.1039/D2SC03587A

Push–pull dioxaborine as fluorescent molecular rotor: far-red fluorogenic probe for ligand–receptor interactions

Julie Karpenko, Yosuke Niko, Viktor P. Yakubovskyi, Andriy O. Gerasov, Dominique Bonnet, Yuriy P. Kovtun and Andrey S. Klymchenko

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2016, 4, 3002
DOI: 10.1039/C5TC03411F

Molecular rotors as reporters for viscosity of solutions of collagen like peptides

Christopher D. McTiernan, Matias Zuñiga-Bustos, Roberto Rosales-Rojas, Pablo Barrias, May Griffith, Horacio Poblete, Peter S. Sherin, Ismael López-Duarte, Marina K. Kuimova and Emilio I. Alarcon

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 24545
DOI: 10.1039/D1CP04398F

New cell-membrane-anchored near-infrared fluorescent probes for viscosity monitoring

Ya Liu, Xiaohua Li, Wen Shi and Huimin Ma

Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 12815
DOI: 10.1039/D2CC05362D

Achieving AIE from ACQ in positional isomeric triarylmethanes

Soumya Singh, Abhineet Verma and Satyen Saha

New J. Chem., 2022, 46, 7212
DOI: 10.1039/D2NJ00148A

Magnetically driven piezoelectric soft microswimmers for neuron-like cell delivery and neuronal differentiation

Xiang-Zhong Chen, Jia-Hao Liu, Mei Dong, Lucas Müller, George Chatzipirpiridis, Chengzhi Hu, Anastasia Terzopoulou, Harun Torlakcik, Xiaopu Wang, Fajer Mushtaq, Josep Puigmartí-Luis, Qun-Dong Shen, Bradley J. Nelson and Salvador Pané

Mater. Horiz., 2019, 6, 1512
DOI: 10.1039/C9MH00279K

Effect of ionic liquids on the conformation of a porphyrin-based viscometer

Laramie P. Jameson, Joseph D. Kimball, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Milan Balaz and Sergei V. Dzyuba

RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 18300
DOI: 10.1039/c3ra43001d

A fluorogenic BODIPY molecular rotor as an apoptosis marker

Pichandi Ashokkumar, Anila Hoskere Ashoka, Mayeul Collot, Amitava Das and Andrey S. Klymchenko

Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 6902
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC03242H

Dynamic viscosity mapping of the oxidation of squalene aerosol particles

Athanasios Athanasiadis, Clare Fitzgerald, Nicholas M. Davidson, Chiara Giorio, Stanley W. Botchway, Andrew D. Ward, Markus Kalberer, Francis D. Pope and Marina K. Kuimova

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 30385
DOI: 10.1039/C6CP05674A

Solvatochromic dye LDS 798 as microviscosity and pH probe

Hung Doan, Marlius Castillo, Micheline Bejjani, Zhangatay Nurekeyev, Sergei V. Dzyuba, Ignacy Gryczynski, Zygmunt Gryczynski and Sangram Raut

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017, 19, 29934
DOI: 10.1039/C7CP05874H

Probing biotin receptors in cancer cells with rationally designed fluorogenic squaraine dimers

Kyong T. Fam, Mayeul Collot and Andrey S. Klymchenko

Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 8240
DOI: 10.1039/D0SC01973A

Engineering a light-driven cyanine based molecular rotor to enhance the sensitivity towards a viscous medium

Vishal Kachwal, Abhilasha Srivastava, Sumukh Thakar, Maria Zubiria-Ulacia, Diplesh Gautam, Syamantak Majumder, Venkatesh K. P., David Casanova, Rajdeep Chowdhury, Nigam Rath, Sudeshna Mukherjee, Pere Alemany and Inamur Rahaman Laskar

Mater. Adv., 2021, 2, 4804
DOI: 10.1039/D1MA00277E

Real-time imaging of viscosity in the mitochondrial matrix by a red-emissive molecular rotor

Lin Yuan, Dong Wang, Shan Shan, Juan Chen, Wei Huang, Guangmei Han, Xiaohe Tian, Ruilong Zhang, Zhongping Zhang and Zhengjie Liu

Anal. Methods, 2021, 13, 3181
DOI: 10.1039/D1AY00366F

The effect of solvent polarity and macromolecular crowding on the viscosity sensitivity of a molecular rotor BODIPY-C10

Artūras Polita, Stepas Toliautas, Rokas Žvirblis and Aurimas Vyšniauskas

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 8296
DOI: 10.1039/C9CP06865A

Azobenzene photoisomerization probes cell membrane viscosity

Arianna Magni, Gaia Bondelli, Giuseppe M. Paternò, Samim Sardar, Valentina Sesti, Cosimo D’Andrea, Chiara Bertarelli and Guglielmo Lanzani

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2022, 24, 8716
DOI: 10.1039/D1CP05881A

Imaging phase separation in model lipid membranes through the use of BODIPY based molecular rotors

Michael R. Dent, Ismael López-Duarte, Callum J. Dickson, Niall D. Geoghegan, Jonathan M. Cooper, Ian R. Gould, Rob Krams, James A. Bull, Nicholas J. Brooks and Marina K. Kuimova

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, 17, 18393
DOI: 10.1039/C5CP01937K

BODIPY–BODIPY dyad: assessing the potential as a viscometer for molecular and ionic liquids

Joseph D. Kimball, Sangram Raut, Laramie P. Jameson, Nicholas W. Smith, Zygmunt Gryczynski and Sergei V. Dzyuba

RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 19508
DOI: 10.1039/C4RA09757B

A highly sensitive triple ratio viscosity probe for fluorescence response across ultra-wide viscosity ranges

Yifan Li, Xuanying Chen, Xin Jin, Jianhua Su and Zhiyun Zhang

New J. Chem., 2024, 48, 20114
DOI: 10.1039/D4NJ04573D

Visualising the membrane viscosity of porcine eye lens cells using molecular rotors

Peter S. Sherin, Ismael López-Duarte, Michael R. Dent, Markéta Kubánková, Aurimas Vyšniauskas, James A. Bull, Evdokiya S. Reshetnikova, Andrey S. Klymchenko, Yuri P. Tsentalovich and Marina K. Kuimova

Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 3523
DOI: 10.1039/C6SC05369F

Dual mode quantitative imaging of microscopic viscosity using a conjugated porphyrin dimer

Aurimas Vyšniauskas, Milan Balaz, Harry L. Anderson and Marina K. Kuimova

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, 17, 7548
DOI: 10.1039/C5CP00439J

Comparative photophysics and ultrafast dynamics of dimethylaminochalcone and a structurally rigid derivative: experimental identification of TICT coordinate

Rajib Ghosh and Biswajit Manna

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017, 19, 23078
DOI: 10.1039/C7CP03461J

A triazine-based BODIPY trimer as a molecular viscometer

Sangram L. Raut, Joseph D. Kimball, Rafal Fudala, Ilkay Bora, Rahul Chib, Hana Jaafari, Marlius K. Castillo, Nicholas W. Smith, Ignacy Gryczynski, Sergei V. Dzyuba and Zygmunt Gryczynski

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 4535
DOI: 10.1039/C5CP07214J

A new GFP fluorophore-based probe for lysosome labelling and tracing lysosomal viscosity in live cells

Xiaolin Li, Rongrong Zhao, Yang Wang and Chusen Huang

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2018, 6, 6592
DOI: 10.1039/C8TB01885E

Tuning the fluorescence based on the combination of TICT and AIE emission of a tetraphenylethylene with D–π–A structure

Mengxing Zhang, Jiale Li, Lirong Yu, Xi Wang and Ming Bai

RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 14520
DOI: 10.1039/D0RA00107D

Exploring viscosity, polarity and temperature sensitivity of BODIPY-based molecular rotors

Aurimas Vyšniauskas, Ismael López-Duarte, Nicolas Duchemin, Thanh-Truc Vu, Yilei Wu, Ekaterina M. Budynina, Yulia A. Volkova, Eduardo Peña Cabrera, Diana E. Ramírez-Ornelas and Marina K. Kuimova

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017, 19, 25252
DOI: 10.1039/C7CP03571C

Unravelling the effect of temperature on viscosity-sensitive fluorescent molecular rotors

Aurimas Vyšniauskas, Maryam Qurashi, Nathaniel Gallop, Milan Balaz, Harry L. Anderson and Marina K. Kuimova

Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 5773
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC02248G

Tuning BODIPY molecular rotors into the red: sensitivity to viscosity vs. temperature

Thanh Truc Vu, Rachel Méallet-Renault, Gilles Clavier, Boris A. Trofimov and Marina K. Kuimova

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2016, 4, 2828
DOI: 10.1039/C5TC02954F

Motion-induced change in emission (MICE) for developing fluorescent probes

Dongdong Su, Chai Lean Teoh, Lu Wang, Xiaogang Liu and Young-Tae Chang

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2017, 46, 4833
DOI: 10.1039/C7CS00018A

A fluorescent molecular rotor showing vapochromism, aggregation-induced emission, and environmental sensing in living cells

Matthias Koenig, Barbara Storti, Ranieri Bizzarri, Dirk M. Guldi, Giuseppe Brancato and Giovanni Bottari

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2016, 4, 3018
DOI: 10.1039/C5TC03541D

Fluorescence lifetime imaging of optically levitated aerosol: a technique to quantitatively map the viscosity of suspended aerosol particles

C. Fitzgerald, N. A. Hosny, H. Tong, P. C. Seville, P. J. Gallimore, N. M. Davidson, A. Athanasiadis, S. W. Botchway, A. D. Ward, M. Kalberer, M. K. Kuimova and F. D. Pope

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 21710
DOI: 10.1039/C6CP03674K

Sensing and imaging of mitochondrial viscosity in living cells using a red fluorescent probe with a long lifetime

Bochao Chen, Chengde Li, Jie Zhang, Jianfei Kan, Tiantian Jiang, Jin Zhou and Huimin Ma

Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 7410
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC03977E

A fluorescent molecular rotor probe for tracking plasma membranes and exosomes in living cells

Ling Feng, Yusheng Xie, Sung King Au-Yeung, Hagos Birhanu Hailu, Zhiyang Liu, Qingxin Chen, Jie Zhang, Qiuxiang Pang, Xi Yao, Mengsu Yang, Liang Zhang and Hongyan Sun

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 8480
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC03069D

Fluorescence-readout as a powerful macromolecular characterisation tool

Xingyu Wu and Christopher Barner-Kowollik

Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 12815
DOI: 10.1039/D3SC04052F

Unraveling the peculiar modus operandi of a new class of solvatochromic fluorescent molecular rotors by spectroscopic and quantum mechanical methods

Matthias Koenig, Giovanni Bottari, Giuseppe Brancato, Vincenzo Barone, Dirk M. Guldi and Tomás Torres

Chem. Sci., 2013, 4, 2502
DOI: 10.1039/c3sc50290b

The effect of structural heterogeneity upon the microviscosity of ionic liquids

Ryan Clark, Mohd A. Nawawi, Ana Dobre, David Pugh, Qingshan Liu, Aleksandar P. Ivanov, Andrew J. P. White, Joshua B. Edel, Marina K. Kuimova, Alastair J. S. McIntosh and Tom Welton

Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 6121
DOI: 10.1039/D0SC02009E

Imaging plasma membrane phase behaviour in live cells using a thiophene-based molecular rotor

Michael R. Dent, Ismael López-Duarte, Callum J. Dickson, Phoom Chairatana, Harry L. Anderson, Ian R. Gould, Douglas Wylie, Aurimas Vyšniauskas, Nicholas J. Brooks and Marina K. Kuimova

Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 13269
DOI: 10.1039/C6CC05954F

A viscochromic, mechanochromic, and unsymmetrical azine for selective detection of Al3+ and Cu2+ ions and its mitotracking studies

Richa Yadav, Abhishek Rai, Avinash Kumar Sonkar, Vipin Rai, Subash Chandra Gupta and Lallan Mishra

New J. Chem., 2019, 43, 7109
DOI: 10.1039/C8NJ06413J

Direct imaging of changes in aerosol particle viscosity upon hydration and chemical aging

N. A. Hosny, C. Fitzgerald, A. Vyšniauskas, A. Athanasiadis, T. Berkemeier, N. Uygur, U. Pöschl, M. Shiraiwa, M. Kalberer, F. D. Pope and M. K. Kuimova

Chem. Sci., 2016, 7, 1357
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC02959G

Viscosity-sensitive thiolated gold nanoclusters with diffusion-controlled emission for intracellular viscosity imaging

Saifei Pan, Jin Zhou, Weidong Liu, Yuxin Ye, Guilin Chen, Jing Xu, Zhaosheng Qian, Jianrong Chen and Hui Feng

Analyst, 2019, 144, 4483
DOI: 10.1039/C9AN01035A

Rotational and translational diffusion of size-dependent fluorescent probes in homogeneous and heterogeneous environments

Hong Bok Lee, Anh Cong, Hannah Leopold, Megan Currie, Arnold J. Boersma, Erin D. Sheets and Ahmed A. Heikal

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, 24045
DOI: 10.1039/C8CP03873B

Confronting molecular rotors and self-quenched dimers as fluorogenic BODIPY systems to probe biotin receptors in cancer cells

Kyong T. Fam, Lazare Saladin, Andrey S. Klymchenko and Mayeul Collot

Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 4807
DOI: 10.1039/D1CC00108F

Understanding associative polymer self-assembly with shrinking gate fluorescence correlation spectroscopy

Timothy J. Murdoch, Baptiste Quienne, Julien Pinaud, Sylvain Caillol and Ignacio Martín-Fabiani

Nanoscale, 2024, 16, 12660
DOI: 10.1039/D4NR00737A

Design of bond-cleavage-induced intramolecular charge transfer emission with dibenzoboroles and their application to ratiometric sensors for discriminating chain lengths of alkanes

Takuya Matsumoto, Hirofumi Takamine, Kazuo Tanaka and Yoshiki Chujo

Mater. Chem. Front., 2017, 1, 2368
DOI: 10.1039/C7QM00350A

Molecular rheometry: direct determination of viscosity in Lo and Ld lipid phases via fluorescence lifetime imaging

Yilei Wu, Martin Štefl, Agnieszka Olzyńska, Martin Hof, Gokhan Yahioglu, Philip Yip, Duncan R. Casey, Oscar Ces, Jana Humpolíčková and Marina K. Kuimova

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013, 15, 14986
DOI: 10.1039/c3cp51953h

A multifunctional coumarin-based probe for distinguishable detection of Cu2+ and Zn2+: its piezochromic, viscochromic and AIE behavior with real sample analysis and bio-imaging applications

Aayoosh Singh, Pranjalee Yadav, Saumya Singh, Pradeep Kumar, S. Srikrishna and Vinod P. Singh

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2023, 11, 13056
DOI: 10.1039/D3TC02554C

Fluorescence lifetime of Rhodamine B in aqueous solutions of polysaccharides and proteins as a function of viscosity and temperature

Ruben Mercadé-Prieto, Luis Rodriguez-Rivera and Xiao Dong Chen

Photochem Photobiol Sci, 2017, 16, 1727
DOI: 10.1039/c7pp00330g

A novel family of AIE-active meso-2-ketopyrrolyl BODIPYs: bright solid-state red fluorescence, morphological properties and application as viscosimeters in live cells

Changjiang Yu, Zhenlong Huang, Wei Gu, Qinghua Wu, Erhong Hao, Yi Xiao, Lijuan Jiao and Wai-Yeung Wong

Mater. Chem. Front., 2019, 3, 1823
DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00154A

Multi-stimuli responsive luminescent azepane-substituted β-diketones and difluoroboron complexes

Fang Wang, Christopher A. DeRosa, Margaret L. Daly, Daniel Song, Michal Sabat and Cassandra L. Fraser

Mater. Chem. Front., 2017, 1, 1866
DOI: 10.1039/C7QM00137A

Near infrared emitting molecular rotor based on merocyanine for probing the viscosity of cellular lipid environments

Tarushyam Mukherjee, Ramon J. Martinez-Sanchez, Kyong T. Fam, Sophie Bou, Ludovic Richert, Delphine Garnier, Yves Mély, Sriram Kanvah, Andrey S. Klymchenko and Mayeul Collot

Mater. Chem. Front., 2021, 5, 2459
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00872A

Nucleotides bearing aminophenyl- or aminonaphthyl-3-methoxychromone solvatochromic fluorophores for the enzymatic construction of DNA probes for the detection of protein–DNA binding

Ján Matyašovský, Laure Tack, Attila Palágyi, Miroslav Kuba, Radek Pohl, Tomáš Kraus, Pedro Güixens-Gallardo and Michal Hocek

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2021, 19, 9966
DOI: 10.1039/D1OB02098F

Optimising molecular rotors to AIE fluorophores for mitochondria uptake and retention

Tze Cin OwYong, Siyang Ding, Na Wu, Thomas Fellowes, Sijie Chen, Jonathan M. White, Wallace W. H. Wong and Yuning Hong

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 14853
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC06411D

Pyrrolic molecular rotors acting as viscosity sensors with high fluorescence contrast

Seung-Chul Lee, Jeongyun Heo, Jong-Wan Ryu, Chang-Lyoul Lee, Sehoon Kim, Joon-Sung Tae, Byung-Ohk Rhee, Sang-Wook Kim and O-Pil Kwon

Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 13695
DOI: 10.1039/C6CC06521J

Dual use of porphyrazines as sensitizers and viscosity markers in photodynamic therapy

M. Angeles Izquierdo, Aurimas Vyšniauskas, Svetlana A. Lermontova, Ilya S. Grigoryev, Natalia Y. Shilyagina, Irina V. Balalaeva, Larisa G. Klapshina and Marina K. Kuimova

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2015, 3, 1089
DOI: 10.1039/C4TB01678E

Tuning the electronic structure of BODIPY-coumarin ratiometric fluorescent sensors for accurate microviscosity monitoring applications

Enrique Ordaz-Romero, Angela Y. Díaz-Flores, Sandra M. Rojas-Montoya, Luis Blancarte-Carrazco, Margarita Romero-Ávila, Pablo Labra-Vázquez, Rosa Santillan and Norberto Farfán

New J. Chem., 2025, 49, 10538
DOI: 10.1039/D5NJ00899A

Luminescent probes for the bioimaging of small anionic species in vitro and in vivo

Trent D. Ashton, Katrina A. Jolliffe and Frederick M. Pfeffer

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2015, 44, 4547
DOI: 10.1039/C4CS00372A

A novel mitochondria-targeted rhodamine analogue for the detection of viscosity changes in living cells, zebra fish and living mice

Rui Guo, Junling Yin, Yanyan Ma, Qiuan Wang and Weiying Lin

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2018, 6, 2894
DOI: 10.1039/C8TB00298C

Rigidochromism by imide functionalisation of an aminomaleimide fluorophore

Jonathan T. Husband, Yujie Xie, Thomas R. Wilks, Louise Male, Miquel Torrent-Sucarrat, Vasilios G. Stavros and Rachel K. O'Reilly

Chem. Sci., 2021, 12, 10550
DOI: 10.1039/D1SC03307G

A molecular rotor for measuring viscosity in plasma membranes of live cells

Ismael López-Duarte, Thanh Truc Vu, M. Angeles Izquierdo, James A. Bull and Marina K. Kuimova

Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 5282
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC47530A

Monitoring of viscosity changes during free radical polymerization using fluorescence lifetime measurements

Jan Martin Nölle, Christian Jüngst, Andreas Zumbusch and Dominik Wöll

Polym. Chem., 2014, 5, 2700
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY01684F

In situ viscosity measurement of confined liquids

A. Ponjavic, J. Dench, N. Morgan and J. S. S. Wong

RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 99585
DOI: 10.1039/C5RA19245E

T and V-shaped donor–acceptor–donor molecules involving pyridoquinoxaline: large Stokes shift, environment-sensitive tunable emission and temperature-induced fluorochromism

Bahadur Sk, Saurabh Khodia and Abhijit Patra

Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 1786
DOI: 10.1039/C7CC09261J

Lipophilic molecular rotor to assess the viscosity of oil core in nano-emulsion droplets

Mohamed Elhassan, Carla Faivre, Halina Anton, Guillaume Conzatti, Pascal Didier, Thierry Vandamme, Alteyeb S. Elamin, Mayeul Collot and Nicolas Anton

Soft Matter, 2025, 21, 1212
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM01234H

Self-reversible mechanochromism and aggregation induced emission in neutral triarylmethanes and their application in water sensing

Thekke Thattariyil Divya, Kalluruttimmal Ramshad, Velluvakandi Chaluvalappil Saheer and Lakshmi Chakkumkumarath

New J. Chem., 2018, 42, 20227
DOI: 10.1039/C8NJ04479A

Probing a microviscosity change at the nematic–isotropic liquid crystal phase transition by a ratiometric flapping fluorophore

Ryo Kimura, Hidetsugu Kitakado, Takuya Yamakado, Hiroyuki Yoshida and Shohei Saito

Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 2128
DOI: 10.1039/D1CC06111A

Photoinduced dynamics of a cyanine dye: parallel pathways of non-radiative deactivation involving multiple excited-state twisted transients

Srigokul Upadhyayula, Vicente Nuñez, Eli M. Espinoza, Jillian M. Larsen, Duoduo Bao, Dewen Shi, Jenny T. Mac, Bahman Anvari and Valentine I. Vullev

Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 2237
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC02881C

Protonation-induced ultrafast torsional dynamics in 9-anthrylbenzimidazole: a pH activated molecular rotor

Amitabha Nandi, Archana Kushwaha, Dipanwita Das and Rajib Ghosh

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, 7014
DOI: 10.1039/C7CP08408K

Recent advances in twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) fluorescence and related phenomena in materials chemistry

Shunsuke Sasaki, Gregor P. C. Drummen and Gen-ichi Konishi

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2016, 4, 2731
DOI: 10.1039/C5TC03933A

Molecular rotors report on changes in live cell plasma membrane microviscosity upon interaction with beta-amyloid aggregates

Markéta Kubánková, Ismael López-Duarte, Darya Kiryushko and Marina K. Kuimova

Soft Matter, 2018, 14, 9466
DOI: 10.1039/C8SM01633J

Thiophene-linked tetramethylbodipy-labeled nucleotide for viscosity-sensitive oligonucleotide probes of hybridization and protein–DNA interactions

Pedro Güixens-Gallardo, Jana Humpolickova, Sebastian Paul Miclea, Radek Pohl, Tomáš Kraus, Piotr Jurkiewicz, Martin Hof and Michal Hocek

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2020, 18, 912
DOI: 10.1039/C9OB02634G

Computational and photophysical characterization of a Laurdan malononitrile derivative

Mick Hornum, Jacob Kongsted and Peter Reinholdt

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 9139
DOI: 10.1039/D1CP00831E

Lutidine derivatives for live-cell imaging of the mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum

Deepmala Singh, Dipeshwari J. Shewale, Aakash Sengupta, Virupakshi Soppina and Sriram Kanvah

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2022, 20, 7047
DOI: 10.1039/D2OB00995A

Bimodal effects on lipid droplets induced in cancer and non-cancer cells by chemotherapy drugs as revealed with a green-emitting BODIPY fluorescent probe

Artūras Polita, Rokas Žvirblis, Jelena Dodonova-Vaitkūnienė, Arun Prabha Shivabalan, Karolina Maleckaitė and Gintaras Valinčius

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2024, 12, 3022
DOI: 10.1039/D3TB02979D

A homodimeric BODIPY rotor as a fluorescent viscosity sensor for membrane-mimicking and cellular environments

Sangram Raut, Joseph Kimball, Rafal Fudala, Hung Doan, Badri Maliwal, Nirupama Sabnis, Andras Lacko, Ignacy Gryczynski, Sergei V. Dzyuba and Zygmunt Gryczynski

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, 16, 27037
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP04260C

Flapping viscosity probe that shows polarity-independent ratiometric fluorescence

Ryota Kotani, Hikaru Sotome, Hajime Okajima, Soichi Yokoyama, Yumi Nakaike, Akihiro Kashiwagi, Chigusa Mori, Yuki Nakada, Shigehiro Yamaguchi, Atsuhiro Osuka, Akira Sakamoto, Hiroshi Miyasaka and Shohei Saito

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2017, 5, 5248
DOI: 10.1039/C7TC01533J

Computational study of the DPAP molecular rotor in various environments: from force field development to molecular dynamics simulations and spectroscopic calculations

Marina Macchiagodena, Gianluca Del Frate, Giuseppe Brancato, Balasubramanian Chandramouli, Giordano Mancini and Vincenzo Barone

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017, 19, 30590
DOI: 10.1039/C7CP04688J

Designing a green-emitting viscosity-sensitive 4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene (BODIPY) probe for plasma membrane viscosity imaging

Artūras Polita, Milda Stancikaitė, Rokas Žvirblis, Karolina Maleckaitė, Jelena Dodonova-Vaitkūnienė, Sigitas Tumkevičius, Arun Prabha Shivabalan and Gintaras Valinčius

RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 19257
DOI: 10.1039/D3RA04126C

Orthogonally aligned cyclic BODIPY arrays with long-lived triplet excited states as efficient heavy-atom-free photosensitizers

Zhaoyang Zhu, Xue Zhang, Xing Guo, Qinghua Wu, Zhongxin Li, Changjiang Yu, Erhong Hao, Lijuan Jiao and Jianzhang Zhao

Chem. Sci., 2021, 12, 14944
DOI: 10.1039/D1SC04893G

Fluorescent lifetime imaging of atmospheric aerosols: a direct probe of aerosol viscosity

Neveen A. Hosny, Clare Fitzgerald, Changlun Tong, Markus Kalberer, Marina K. Kuimova and Francis D. Pope

Faraday Discuss., 2013, 165, 343
DOI: 10.1039/c3fd00041a

Molecular engineering of tethered bilayer lipid membranes for impedimetric detection of pore-forming toxins

Tomas Sabirovas, Martynas Talaikis, Rimgailė Tamulytė, Artūras Polita, Vaidas Pudzaitis, Gediminas Niaura, David J Vanderah and Gintaras Valincius

Electrochimica Acta, 2024, 508, 145226
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2024.145226

Determination of viscosities of alcohols, fatty oils, and mineral oils based on diffusion rates of fluids in a fluorescent microporous conjugated polymer film

Young-Ghil Choi, Young-Jae Jin, Wang-Eun Lee, Jineun Lee and Giseop Kwak

Polym. Bull., 2023, 80, 1861
DOI: 10.1007/s00289-022-04154-w

FLIM-Phasor Analysis (FLIM-ϕ) of Aβ-Induced Membrane Order Alterations: Towards a Cell-Based Biosensor for Early Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis

Antonella Battisti, Maria Grazia Ortore, Silvia Vilasi and Antonella Sgarbossa

Micromachines, 2025, 16, 234
DOI: 10.3390/mi16020234

Rapid formation of human immunodeficiency virus-like particles

Joanna Bednarska, Annegret Pelchen-Matthews, Pavel Novak, Jemima J. Burden, Peter A. Summers, Marina K. Kuimova, Yuri Korchev, Mark Marsh and Andrew Shevchuk

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2020, 117, 21637
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2008156117

Modeling the Role of LHCII-LHCII, PSII-LHCII, and PSI-LHCII Interactions in State Transitions

William H.J. Wood and Matthew P. Johnson

Biophysical Journal, 2020, 119, 287
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2020.05.034

Protein Mobility Measurements through Oxidative Green-to-Red Photoconversion of EGFP

Vladimir E. Bochenkov, Nina S. Sopova, Aleksander M. Shakhov, Artyom A. Astafiev and Anastasia V. Bochenkova

J. Phys. Chem. B, 2022, 126, 4184
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c00643

A High-Throughput Screening Method for Determining the Optimized Synthesis Conditions of Quinoxaline Derivatives Using Microdroplet Reaction

Yanmei Yang, Junmin Liu, Zhenzhen Chen, Weihua Niu, Ran Li, Le Niu, Peng Yang, Xiaoyan Mu and Bo Tang

Front. Chem., 2020, 8
DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2020.00789

A simple chalcone molecular rotor for specific fluorescence imaging of mitochondrial viscosity changes in living cells

Chao Wang, Tingting Wang, Min Zhao, Fangfang Dai, Zhuolan Niu, Wenqing Zhang and Yangmin Ma

Dyes and Pigments, 2021, 194, 109593
DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2021.109593

Trafficking in cancer: from gene deregulation to altered organelles and emerging biophysical properties

Julie Patat, Kristine Schauer and Hugo Lachuer

Front. Cell Dev. Biol., 2025, 12
DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2024.1491304

Tuning the Sensitivity of Fluorescent Porphyrin Dimers to Viscosity and Temperature

Aurimas Vyšniauskas, Dong Ding, Maryam Qurashi, Igor Boczarow, Milan Balaz, Harry L. Anderson and Marina K. Kuimova

Chemistry A European J, 2017, 23, 11001
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201700740

Auxiliary Methoxy Aided Triphenylamine and Dicyanoisophorone Based Flurophores with Viscosity and Polarity Sensitive Intramolecular Charge Transfer

Yogesh Erande, Shantaram Kothavale and Nagaiyan Sekar

J Solution Chem, 2018, 47, 353
DOI: 10.1007/s10953-018-0722-3

Quinolinium-based viscosity probes for lysosome imaging and tracing lysosomal viscosity changes in living cells

Ajcharapan Tantipanjaporn, Karen Ka-Yan Kung, Wing-Cheung Chan, Jie-Ren Deng, Ben Chi-Bun Ko and Man-Kin Wong

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2022, 367, 132003
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2022.132003

Physicochemical Properties of Cells and Their Effects on Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDPs)

Francois-Xavier Theillet, Andres Binolfi, Tamara Frembgen-Kesner, Karan Hingorani, Mohona Sarkar, Ciara Kyne, Conggang Li, Peter B. Crowley, Lila Gierasch, Gary J. Pielak, Adrian H. Elcock, Anne Gershenson and Philipp Selenko

Chem. Rev., 2014, 114, 6661
DOI: 10.1021/cr400695p

p-Aminostyryl thiazole orange derivatives for monitoring mitochondrial viscosity in live cells

Lingling Zhang, Mengwen Yi, Shilong Zhong, Jing Liu, Xiangjun Liu, Tao Bing, Nan Zhang, Yongbiao Wei and Dihua Shangguan

Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2022, 265, 120394
DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2021.120394

Luminescent molecules of main group elements: Recent advances on synthesis, properties and their application on fluorescent bioimaging (FBI)

Jessica C. Berrones-Reyes, C.C. Vidyasagar, Blanca M. Muñoz Flores and Víctor M. Jiménez-Pérez

Journal of Luminescence, 2018, 195, 290
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlumin.2017.11.042

Fluorescent Molecular Rotors Based on Hinged Anthracene Carboxyimides

Yanhai Ni, Wangjian Fang and Mark A. Olson

Molecules, 2023, 28, 3217
DOI: 10.3390/molecules28073217

Environmentally sensitive fluorescent nucleoside analogues as probes for nucleic acid – protein interactions: molecular design and biosensing applications

Dmytro Dziuba

Methods Appl. Fluoresc., 2022, 10, 044001
DOI: 10.1088/2050-6120/ac7bd8

Direct investigation of viscosity of an atypical inner membrane of Bacillus spores: A molecular rotor/FLIM study

Pauline Loison, Neveen A. Hosny, Patrick Gervais, Dominique Champion, Marina K. Kuimova and Jean-Marie Perrier-Cornet

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, 2013, 1828, 2436
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2013.06.028

Long-Lived Emissive Probes for Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Bioimaging and Biosensing

Kenneth Yin Zhang, Qi Yu, Huanjie Wei, Shujuan Liu, Qiang Zhao and Wei Huang

Chem. Rev., 2018, 118, 1770
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00425

Nonequilibrium Magnetic Response of Anisotropic Superparamagnetic Nanoparticles and Possible Artifacts in Magnetic Particle Imaging

Hiroaki Mamiya, Balachandran Jeyadevan and Jonathan A Coles

PLoS ONE, 2015, 10, e0118156
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118156

Characterization of cytoplasmic viscosity of hundreds of single tumour cells based on micropipette aspiration

K. Wang, X. H. Sun, Y. Zhang, T. Zhang, Y. Zheng, Y. C. Wei, P. Zhao, D. Y. Chen, H. A. Wu, W. H. Wang, R. Long, J. B. Wang and J. Chen

R. Soc. open sci., 2019, 6, 181707
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.181707

Magnetic Submicron Rods for Quantitative Viscosity Imaging Using Heterodyne Holography

Clémence Gentner, Jean-François Berret, Pascal Berto, Sacha Reichman, Robert Kuszelewicz and Gilles Tessier

ACS Photonics, 2024, 11, 2561
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.4c00021

Hydration- and Temperature-Dependent Fluorescence Spectra of Laurdan Conformers in a DPPC Membrane

Stefan Knippenberg, Kathakali De, Christopher Aisenbrey, Burkhard Bechinger and Silvio Osella

Cells, 2024, 13, 1232
DOI: 10.3390/cells13151232

Effect of Local Anesthetics on the Organization and Dynamics of Hippocampal Membranes: A Fluorescence Approach

Bhagyashree D. Rao, Sandeep Shrivastava, Sreetama Pal and Amitabha Chattopadhyay

J. Phys. Chem. B, 2019, 123, 639
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b10232

Simultaneous Detection of Local Polarizability and Viscosity by a Single Fluorescent Probe in Cells

Gerardo Abbandonato, Dario Polli, Daniele Viola, Giulio Cerullo, Barbara Storti, Francesco Cardarelli, Fabrizio Salomone, Riccardo Nifosì, Giovanni Signore and Ranieri Bizzarri

Biophysical Journal, 2018, 114, 2212
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2018.02.032

Give or Take: Effects of Electron-Accepting/-Withdrawing Groups in Red-Fluorescent BODIPY Molecular Rotors

Karolina Maleckaitė, Domantas Narkevičius, Rugilė Žilėnaitė, Jelena Dodonova-Vaitkūnienė, Stepas Toliautas, Sigitas Tumkevičius and Aurimas Vyšniauskas

Molecules, 2021, 27, 23
DOI: 10.3390/molecules27010023

Oscillatory Diffusion and Second-Order Cyclostationarity in Alanine Tripeptide from Molecular Dynamics Simulation

Ka Chun Ho and Donald Hamelberg

J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2016, 12, 372
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00876

Excited-State Intramolecular Hydrogen-Bonding-Assisted Restricted Rotation: A Mechanism for Monitoring Intracellular Viscosity and Distinguishing Malignant, Differentiating, and Apoptotic Cancer Cells

Mayank, Jayant Sindhu, Ashutosh Singh, Namyashree Nayak, Neha Garg, Navneet Kaur and Narinder Singh

ACS Appl. Bio Mater., 2021, 4, 7532
DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.1c00769

The role of molecular crowding in long-range metalloprotein electron transfer: Dissection into site- and scaffold-specific contributions

Ulises A. Zitare, Jonathan Szuster, Magali F. Scocozza, Andrés Espinoza-Cara, Alcides J. Leguto, Marcos N. Morgada, Alejandro J. Vila and Daniel H. Murgida

Electrochimica Acta, 2019, 294, 117
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2018.10.069

Red-Emitting Pyrrolyl Squaraine Molecular Rotor Reports Variations of Plasma Membrane and Vesicular Viscosity in Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging

Sonia Pfister, Julie Lesieur, Pierre Bourdoncle, Mohamed Elhassan, Pascal Didier, Nicolas Anton, Halina Anton and Mayeul Collot

Anal. Chem., 2024, 96, 12784
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c02145

Viscosity sensitive red shifted novel D-π-A carbazole chromophore with chlorine in π-spacer: Synthesis, photophysical properties, NLO study and DFT approach

Prerana K.M. Lokhande, Dinesh S. Patil and Nagaiyan Sekar

Journal of Luminescence, 2019, 211, 162
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlumin.2019.03.028

A Simple BODIPY-Based Viscosity Probe for Imaging of Cellular Viscosity in Live Cells

Dongdong Su, Chai Teoh, Nengyue Gao, Qing-Hua Xu and Young-Tae Chang

Sensors, 2016, 16, 1397
DOI: 10.3390/s16091397

Measuring the Viscosity of the Escherichia coli Plasma Membrane Using Molecular Rotors

Jacek T. Mika, Alexander J. Thompson, Michael R. Dent, Nicholas J. Brooks, Jan Michiels, Johan Hofkens and Marina K. Kuimova

Biophysical Journal, 2016, 111, 1528
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.08.020

Naphthalimide-4-(4-nitrophenyl)thiosemicarbazide: A Fluorescent Probe for Simultaneous Monitoring of Viscosity and Nitric Oxide in Living Cells

Su Jung Kim, Sun Young Park, Shin A Yoon, Changshin Kim, Chulhun Kang and Min Hee Lee

Anal. Chem., 2021, 93, 4391
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c04019

Confinement fluorescence effect (CFE): Lighting up life by enhancing the absorbed photon energy utilization efficiency of fluorophores

Bin Fang, Panpan Li, Jiamin Jiang, Wei Du, Limin Wang, Hua Bai, Bo Peng, Xiao Huang, Zhongfu An, Lin Li, Xuekang Yang, Li Fu and Wei Huang

Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2021, 440, 213979
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2021.213979

Designing a Red‐Emitting Viscosity‐Sensitive BODIPY Fluorophore for Intracellular Viscosity Imaging

Karolina Maleckaitė, Jelena Dodonova, Stepas Toliautas, Rugilė Žilėnaitė, Džiugas Jurgutis, Vitalijus Karabanovas, Sigitas Tumkevičius and Aurimas Vyšniauskas

Chemistry A European J, 2021, 27, 16768
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202102743

A Xanthene Dye‐based Sensor for Viscosity and Cell Imaging

Bo Yu, Ying Zhou, Lihua Dou, Yunyun Li and Zhengwen Huang

J Fluoresc, 2021, 31, 719
DOI: 10.1007/s10895-021-02705-4

Viscosity-Sensitive Membrane Dyes as Tools To Estimate the Crystalline Structure of Lipid Bilayers

Miguel Paez-Perez, Michael R. Dent, Nicholas J. Brooks and Marina K. Kuimova

Anal. Chem., 2023, 95, 12006
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c01747

Comparation of micro-viscosity of liquid oil in different colloidal fat crystal networks using molecular rotors

Xiuhang Chai, Zong Meng and Yuanfa Liu

Food Chemistry, 2020, 317, 126382
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2020.126382

External Stimuli Responsive Bis(anthryl)borylaniline AIEgens for Viscosity and Temperature Sensing: The Game of Molecular Flexibility

Umesh Pratap Pandey and Pakkirisamy Thilagar

Advanced Optical Materials, 2020, 8
DOI: 10.1002/adom.201902145

Excited-State Proton and Charge Transfer in Protonated Amino and Methylated Derivatives of 2-(2′-Hydroxyphenyl)benzimidazole

Sonia Ríos Vázquez, J. Luis Pérez Lustres, Flor Rodríguez-Prieto, Manuel Mosquera and M. Carmen Ríos Rodríguez

J. Phys. Chem. B, 2015, 119, 2475
DOI: 10.1021/jp507917u

Molecular rotors with long alkyl chains as fluorescent viscosity sensors for hydrocarbon and silicone oil fluids

Young-Jae Jin, Young-Ghil Choi and Giseop Kwak

Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2019, 276, 1
DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2018.11.158

Flapping Peryleneimide as a Fluorogenic Dye with High Photostability and Strong Visible‐Light Absorption

Ryo Kimura, Hikaru Kuramochi, Pengpeng Liu, Takuya Yamakado, Atsuhiro Osuka, Tahei Tahara and Shohei Saito

Angew Chem Int Ed, 2020, 59, 16430
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202006198

Environment-Sensitive Azepane-Substituted β-Diketones and Difluoroboron Complexes with Restricted C–C Bond Rotation

Fang Wang, Christopher A. DeRosa, Daniel Song, Diane A. Dickie and Cassandra L. Fraser

J. Phys. Chem. C, 2019, 123, 23124
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b06304

Targeted fluorescence lifetime probes reveal responsive organelle viscosity and membrane fluidity

Ida Emilie Steinmark, Arjuna L. James, Pei-Hua Chung, Penny E. Morton, Maddy Parsons, Cécile A. Dreiss, Christian D. Lorenz, Gokhan Yahioglu, Klaus Suhling and Banafshe Larijani

PLoS ONE, 2019, 14, e0211165
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0211165

Assessing hypoxic damage to placental trophoblasts by measuring membrane viscosity of extracellular vesicles

Changjin Huang, Hui Li, Juliana S. Powell, Yingshi Ouyang, Stacy G. Wendell, Subra Suresh, K. Jimmy Hsia, Yoel Sadovsky and David Quinn

Placenta, 2022, 121, 14
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2022.02.019

A High‐Contrast Autolysosome Probe for Detecting Interaction between Autophagosomes and Autolysosomes in Mitophagy†

Weihua Wang, Chu Han, Shengjie Xie, Zisong Cong, Zixuan Yang, Yuxin Feng, Limin Xiang and Heng Song

Chin. J. Chem., 2024, 42, 858
DOI: 10.1002/cjoc.202300639

Ultrafast Dynamics of a Fluorescent Tetrazolium Compound in Solution

Tom Bolze, Jan‐Lucas Wree, Florian Kanal, Domenik Schleier and Patrick Nuernberger

ChemPhysChem, 2018, 19, 138
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201700831

Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM): Basic concepts and some recent developments

Klaus Suhling, Liisa M. Hirvonen, James A. Levitt, Pei-Hua Chung, Carolyn Tregidgo, Alix Le Marois, Dmitri A. Rusakov, Kaiyu Zheng, Simon Ameer-Beg, Simon Poland, Simao Coelho, Robert Henderson and Nikola Krstajic

Medical Photonics, 2015, 27, 3
DOI: 10.1016/j.medpho.2014.12.001

Ultrafast isomerization vs bond twisting process – role of a proton

Sukriti Santra, Aruna K. Mora and Sukhendu Nath

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 2023, 437, 114474
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2022.114474

Brillouin spectroscopy of biorelevant fluids in relation to viscosity and solute concentration

S. V. Adichtchev, Yu. A. Karpegina, K. A. Okotrub, M. A. Surovtseva, V. A. Zykova and N. V. Surovtsev

Phys. Rev. E, 2019, 99
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.99.062410

Enhancing the Viscosity‐Sensitive Range of a BODIPY Molecular Rotor by Two Orders of Magnitude

Stepas Toliautas, Jelena Dodonova, Audrius Žvirblis, Ignas Čiplys, Artūras Polita, Andrius Devižis, Sigitas Tumkevičius, Juozas Šulskus and Aurimas Vyšniauskas

Chemistry A European J, 2019, 25, 10342
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201901315

Two Isomers of a Cyanostilbene Derivative in Viscous Solution Observed by Fluorescence Spectroscopy

Yuki Fujimoto, Norifumi Yamamoto, Kazuki Furukawa and Hiroshi Sekiya

Chem. Lett., 2016, 45, 637
DOI: 10.1246/cl.160143

Efficacy of acidified water-in-oil emulsions against desiccated Salmonella as a function of acid carbon chain-length and membrane viscosity

Shihyu Chuang, Mrinalini Ghoshal and Lynne McLandsborough

Front. Microbiol., 2023, 14
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1197473

Fluorogenic Squaraine Dendrimers for Background‐Free Imaging of Integrin Receptors in Cancer Cells

Pichandi Ashokkumar, Mayeul Collot and Andrey S. Klymchenko

Chemistry A European J, 2021, 27, 6795
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202100480

Predicting small molecule fluorescent probe localization in living cells using QSAR modeling. 2. Specifying probe, protocol and cell factors; selecting QSAR models; predicting entry and localization

RW Horobin and F Rashid-Doubell

Biotechnic & Histochemistry, 2013, 88, 461
DOI: 10.3109/10520295.2013.780635

Dye‐Loaded Nanoemulsions: Biomimetic Fluorescent Nanocarriers for Bioimaging and Nanomedicine

Andrey S. Klymchenko, Fei Liu, Mayeul Collot and Nicolas Anton

Adv Healthcare Materials, 2021, 10
DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202001289

Unusual intermolecular charge transfer enables supramolecular fluorescent viscosity sensors

Xie Han, Fang Hu, Weijie Chi, Xiaoxie Ma, Sheng Hua Liu, Xiaogang Liu and Jun Yin

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2018, 277, 55
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2018.08.109

Fluorogenic d-amino acids enable real-time monitoring of peptidoglycan biosynthesis and high-throughput transpeptidation assays

Yen-Pang Hsu, Edward Hall, Garrett Booher, Brennan Murphy, Atanas D. Radkov, Jacob Yablonowski, Caitlyn Mulcahey, Laura Alvarez, Felipe Cava, Yves V. Brun, Erkin Kuru and Michael S. VanNieuwenhze

Nat. Chem., 2019, 11, 335
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-019-0217-x

Disentangling Nano- and Macroscopic Viscosities of Aqueous Polymer Solutions Using a Fluorescent Molecular Rotor

Marius R. Bittermann, Marion Grzelka, Sander Woutersen, Albert M. Brouwer and Daniel Bonn

J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2021, 12, 3182
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00512

Sterically Frustrated Aromatic Enes with Various Colors Originating from Multiple Folded and Twisted Conformations in Crystal Polymorphs**

Tomohiko Nishiuchi, Seito Aibara, Takuya Yamakado, Ryo Kimura, Shohei Saito, Hiroyasu Sato and Takashi Kubo

Chemistry A European J, 2022, 28
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202200286

Twist and Probe—Fluorescent Molecular Rotors Image Escherichia coli Cell Membrane Viscosity

Klaus Suhling

Biophysical Journal, 2016, 111, 1337
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.08.021

A prostate-specific membrane antigen activated molecular rotor for real-time fluorescence imaging

Jingming Zhang, Anastasia Rakhimbekova, Xiaojiang Duan, Qingqing Yin, Catherine A. Foss, Yan Fan, Yangyang Xu, Xuesong Li, Xuekang Cai, Zsofia Kutil, Pengyuan Wang, Zhi Yang, Ning Zhang, Martin G. Pomper, Yiguang Wang, Cyril Bařinka and Xing Yang

Nat Commun, 2021, 12
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25746-6

A Rotational BODIPY Nucleotide: An Environment‐Sensitive Fluorescence‐Lifetime Probe for DNA Interactions and Applications in Live‐Cell Microscopy

Dmytro Dziuba, Piotr Jurkiewicz, Marek Cebecauer, Martin Hof and Michal Hocek

Angewandte Chemie, 2016, 128, 182
DOI: 10.1002/ange.201507922

Two-dimensional fluid viscosity measurement in microchannel flow using fluorescence polarization imaging

Reiko Kuriyama, Tomotaka Nakagawa, Kazuya Tatsumi and Kazuyoshi Nakabe

Meas. Sci. Technol., 2021, 32, 095402
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6501/abeccb

Comprehensive monitoring of mitochondrial viscosity variation during different cell death processes by a NIR mitochondria-targeting fluorescence probe

Jiaojiao Liu, Fancheng Meng, Jiajia Lv, Mingyan Yang, Yumei Wu, Jie Gao, Junjun Luo, Xinmin Li, Gang Wei, Zeli Yuan and Hongyu Li

Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2023, 295, 122602
DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2023.122602

GFP as potential cellular viscosimeter

Antonie J W G Visser, Adrie H Westphal, Victor V Skakun and Jan Willem Borst

Methods Appl. Fluoresc., 2016, 4, 035002
DOI: 10.1088/2050-6120/4/3/035002

Terbium(III) Luminescent Complexes as Millisecond-Scale Viscosity Probes for Lifetime Imaging

Anh Thy Bui, Alexei Grichine, Alain Duperray, Pierre Lidon, François Riobé, Chantal Andraud and Olivier Maury

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 7693
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b02951

Deeper insight into the multifaceted photodynamics of a potential organic functional material emphasizing aggregation induced emission enhancement (AIEE) properties

Tapashree Mondal, Swapnadip Roy, Indranil Mondal, Manoj V. Mane and Sujit S. Panja

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 2021, 406, 112998
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2020.112998

Quantifying microstructure and molecular dynamics in plant-dairy based model gels using FLIM and STED microscopy

Vinay S.N. Mishra, Matias A. Via, Ulf Andersen, Flemming Møller, Jonathan R. Brewer and Adam Cohen Simonsen

Food Hydrocolloids, 2025, 163, 111086
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2025.111086

Unusual Oxidative Dealkylation Strategy toward Functionalized Phenalenones as Singlet Oxygen Photosensitizers and Photophysical Studies

Paul De Bonfils, Elise Verron, Catalina Sandoval-Altamirano, Pablo Jaque, Xavier Moreau, German Gunther, Pierrick Nun and Vincent Coeffard

J. Org. Chem., 2020, 85, 10603
DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.0c01140

Understanding immune signaling using advanced imaging techniques

Mario Brameshuber, Enrico Klotzsch, Aleks Ponjavic and Erdinc Sezgin

Biochemical Society Transactions, 2022, 50, 853
DOI: 10.1042/BST20210479

Time‐Resolved Fluorescence Anisotropy of a Molecular Rotor Resolves Microscopic Viscosity Parameters in Complex Environments

I. Emilie Steinmark, Pei‐Hua Chung, Robert M. Ziolek, Bethan Cornell, Paul Smith, James A. Levitt, Carolyn Tregidgo, Carla Molteni, Gokhan Yahioglu, Christian D. Lorenz and Klaus Suhling

Small, 2020, 16
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201907139

Phosphorescent Molecular Butterflies with Controlled Potential-Energy Surfaces and Their Application as Luminescent Viscosity Sensor

Chenkun Zhou, Lin Yuan, Zhao Yuan, Nicholas Kelly Doyle, Tristan Dilbeck, Divya Bahadur, Subramanian Ramakrishnan, Albert Dearden, Chen Huang and Biwu Ma

Inorg. Chem., 2016, 55, 8564
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b01108

Design of Near-Infrared Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes Sensitive to Environmental Stimulus through Rationally Tuning the Secondary Coordination Sphere

Yingying Ning, Yi-Wei Liu, Yin-Shan Meng and Jun-Long Zhang

Inorg. Chem., 2018, 57, 1332
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02750

Oxygen Quenching-Resistant Nanoaggregates with Aggregation-Induced Delayed Fluorescence for Time-Resolved Mapping of Intracellular Microviscosity

Fengyan Song, Xinwen Ou, Tsu Yu Chou, Junkai Liu, Hui Gao, Ruoyao Zhang, Xiaolin Huang, Zujin Zhao, Jianwei Sun, Sijie Chen, Jacky W. Y. Lam and Ben Zhong Tang

ACS Nano, 2022, 16, 6176
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c11661

Specifically and wash-free labeling of SNAP-tag fused proteins with a hybrid sensor to monitor local micro-viscosity

Chao Wang, Xinbo Song, Lingcheng Chen and Yi Xiao

Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2017, 91, 313
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2016.11.018

Viscosity-modulated intramolecular excitation energy transfer for mitochondria-targeted sensing and photokilling

Hean Zhang, Ming Qiu, Qianling Cui, Yufeng Luo and Lidong Li

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2024, 414, 135911
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2024.135911

Bioimaging with Macromolecular Probes Incorporating Multiple BODIPY Fluorophores

Ek Raj Thapaliya, Yang Zhang, Pravat Dhakal, Adrienne S. Brown, James N. Wilson, Kevin M. Collins and Françisco M. Raymo

Bioconjugate Chem., 2017, 28, 1519
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.7b00166

Polarised fluorescence in FAD excited at 355 and 450 nm in water–propylene glycol solutions

D. M. Beltukova, M. K. Danilova, I. A. Gradusov, V. P. Belik, I. V. Semenova and O. S. Vasyutinskii

Molecular Physics, 2022, 120
DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2022.2118186

Fluorescence-based Broad Dynamic Range Viscosity Probes

Anatoliy Dragan, August E. Graham and Chris D. Geddes

J Fluoresc, 2014, 24, 397
DOI: 10.1007/s10895-013-1304-9

Axial complexes of Sn(IV)-tetra(4-sulfophenyl)porphyrin with azorubine in aqueous media: Fluorescent probes of local viscosity and pH indicators

G.M. Mamardashvili, E.Yu. Kaigorodova, I.S. Lebedev and N.Z. Mamardashvili

Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2022, 366, 120277
DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.120277

Harnessing Cyanine‐like Properties to Develop Bright Fluorogenic Probes Based on Viscosity‐Sensitive Molecular Rotors

Blaise Dumat and Carolina Chieffo

Chemistry A European J, 2025, 31
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202404077

Mechanosensitive Oligodithienothiophenes: Transmembrane Anion Transport Along Chalcogen‐Bonding Cascades

Mariano Macchione, Maria Tsemperouli, Antoine Goujon, Ajith R. Mallia, Naomi Sakai, Kaori Sugihara and Stefan Matile

Helvetica Chimica Acta, 2018, 101
DOI: 10.1002/hlca.201800014

Medibots: Dual‐Action Biogenic Microdaggers for Single‐Cell Surgery and Drug Release

Sarvesh Kumar Srivastava, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez, Britta Koch and Oliver G. Schmidt

Advanced Materials, 2016, 28, 832
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201504327

Directing Coupled Motion with Light: A Key Step Toward Machine-Like Function

Romain Costil, Mira Holzheimer, Stefano Crespi, Nadja A. Simeth and Ben L. Feringa

Chem. Rev., 2021, 121, 13213
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00340

Viscosity measurement of silicone oils based on diffusion rates in polydiphenylacetylene films

Young-Ghil Choi and Giseop Kwak

European Polymer Journal, 2019, 110, 307
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2018.11.044

Copolymer-Based Photonic Crystal Sensor for Discriminative Detection of Liquid Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and Xylene

Donghui Kou, Wei Ma, Shufen Zhang and Bingtao Tang

ACS Appl. Polym. Mater., 2020, 2, 2
DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.9b00580

Visualizing Actin Packing and the Effects of Actin Attachment on Lipid Membrane Viscosity Using Molecular Rotors

Ion A. Ioannou, Nickolas J. Brooks, Marina K. Kuimova and Yuval Elani

JACS Au, 2024, 4, 2041
DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.4c00237

Aggregation-induced emission: Application in diagnosis and therapy of hepatocellular carcinoma

Wenjing Xu, Danfeng Jian, Huang Yang, Weili Wang and Yuan Ding

Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2024, 266, 116722
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2024.116722

Novel luminescent techniques in aid of food quality, product development, and food processing

Louis A. Colaruotolo, Eric Peters and Maria G. Corradini

Current Opinion in Food Science, 2021, 42, 148
DOI: 10.1016/j.cofs.2021.06.005

Luminescent Lanthanides in Biorelated Applications: From Molecules to Nanoparticles and Diagnostic Probes to Therapeutics

Carlson Alexander, Zhilin Guo, Peter B. Glover, Stephen Faulkner and Zoe Pikramenou

Chem. Rev., 2025, 125, 2269
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00615

A series of flexible design adaptations to the Nikon E‐C1 and E‐C2 confocal microscope systems for UV, multiphoton and FLIM imaging

STANLEY W. BOTCHWAY, KATHRIN M. SCHERER, STEVE HOOK, CHRISTOPHER D. STUBBS, ELEANOR WESTON, ROGER H. BISBY and ANTHONY W. PARKER

Journal of Microscopy, 2015, 258, 68
DOI: 10.1111/jmi.12218

Environment‐Sensitive Behavior of DCNP in Solvents with Different Viscosity, Polarity and Proticity

Olaf Morawski, Boleslaw Kozankiewicz, Andrzej Miniewicz and Andrzej L. Sobolewski

ChemPhysChem, 2015, 16, 3500
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201500563

Picosecond orientational dynamics of water in living cells

Martijn Tros, Linli Zheng, Johannes Hunger, Mischa Bonn, Daniel Bonn, Gertien J. Smits and Sander Woutersen

Nat Commun, 2017, 8
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00858-0

Cellular Cargo Delivery: Toward Assisted Fertilization by Sperm-Carrying Micromotors

Mariana Medina-Sánchez, Lukas Schwarz, Anne K. Meyer, Franziska Hebenstreit and Oliver G. Schmidt

Nano Lett., 2016, 16, 555
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04221

Direct laser-writing of glass-based planar waveguide for fluorescence imaging

Lin-Feng Zhang, Xiao-Chuan Ding, Zhi-Shan Hou and Yu Cao

Acta Phys. Sin., 2023, 72, 074203
DOI: 10.7498/aps.72.20222033

A General Strategy to Control Viscosity Sensitivity of Molecular Rotor‐Based Fluorophores

Songtao Ye, Han Zhang, Jinyu Fei, Charles H. Wolstenholme and Xin Zhang

Angew Chem Int Ed, 2021, 60, 1339
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202011108

Installing hydrogen bonds as a general strategy to control viscosity sensitivity of molecular rotor fluorophores

Baoxing Shen, Lihua Liu, Yubo Huang, Jichun Wu, Huan Feng, Yu Liu, He Huang and Xin Zhang

Aggregate, 2024, 5
DOI: 10.1002/agt2.421

Symmetric Bis‐Kryptopyrrol‐2‐Yl Squaraine as a Viscosity Probe and Dual‐State Emitter

Daniel D. Ta, Bong Lee, Agnieszka Jablonska, William L. Burnett, Rajveer Sagoo, Danh Pham, Luca Ceresa, Jose L. Chavez, Joseph D. Kimball, Cynthia B. Powell, Jeffery L. Coffer, Kayla N. Green, Ignacy Gryczynski, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Benjamin G. Janesko and Sergei V. Dzyuba

ChemPhotoChem, 2025
DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202500024

Effect of Aerosol Size on Glass Transition Temperature

Sunandan Mahant, Jefferson R. Snider, Sarah S. Petters and Markus D. Petters

J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2024, 15, 7509
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c01415

Probing interfaces of pea protein-stabilized emulsions with a fluorescent molecular rotor

Santiago F. Velandia, Marius R. Bittermann, Elham Mirzahossein, Giulia Giubertoni, Federico Caporaletti, Véronique Sadtler, Philippe Marchal, Thibault Roques-Carmes, Marcel B. J. Meinders and Daniel Bonn

Front. Soft. Matter, 2023, 3
DOI: 10.3389/frsfm.2023.1093168

Interaction of the Sn(IV)-tetra(4-sulfonatophenyl)porphyrin axial complexes with cetyltrimethylammonium bromide: Aggregation and location in micelles, fluorescence properties and photochemical stability

Galina M. Mamardashvili, Elena Yu. Kaigorodova, Olga R. Simonova, Dmitriy A. Lazovskiy and Nugzar Z. Mamardashvili

Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2020, 318, 113988
DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2020.113988

Organic Fluorescent Probes for Monitoring Micro-Environments in Living Cells and Tissues

Rui Yang, Tao Zhu, Jingyang Xu, Yuang Zhao, Yawei Kuang, Mengni Sun, Yuqi Chen, Wei He, Zixing Wang, Tingwang Jiang, Huiguo Zhang and Mengmeng Wei

Molecules, 2023, 28, 3455
DOI: 10.3390/molecules28083455

Cyanoarylporphyrazines with High Viscosity Sensitivity: A Step towards Dosimetry-Assisted Photodynamic Cancer Treatment

Irina V. Balalaeva, Tatiana A. Mishchenko, Victoria D. Turubanova, Nina N. Peskova, Natalia Y. Shilyagina, Vladimir I. Plekhanov, Svetlana A. Lermontova, Larisa G. Klapshina, Maria V. Vedunova and Dmitri V. Krysko

Molecules, 2021, 26, 5816
DOI: 10.3390/molecules26195816

Computational Characterization of a Cholesterol-Based Molecular Rotor in Lipid Membranes

Peter Reinholdt, Signe Wind, Daniel Wüstner and Jacob Kongsted

J. Phys. Chem. B, 2019, 123, 7313
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b04967

Application of Time-Resolved Fluorescence Microscopy for Enhancing the Selectivity of Fluorogenic Dyes of the Arylidene–Imidazolone Series toward the Endoplasmic Reticulum

A. R. Gilvanov, A. Yu. Smirnov, S. A. Krasnova, I. D. Solovyev, A. P. Savitsky, Yu. A. Bogdanova and M. S. Baranov

Russ J Bioorg Chem, 2024, 50, 1896
DOI: 10.1134/S1068162024050315

Optical trapping of optical nanoparticles: Fundamentals and applications

Fengchan Zhang, Pablo Camarero, Patricia Haro-González, Lucía Labrador-Páez and Daniel Jaque

OES, 2023, 2, 230019
DOI: 10.29026/oes.2023.230019

Molecular Rotors for In Situ Local Viscosity Mapping in Microfluidic Chips

Dharshana Nalatamby, Florence Gibouin, Javier Ordóñez-Hernández, Julien Renaudeau, Gérald Clisson, Norberto Farfán, Pierre Lidon and Yaocihuatl Medina-Gonzalez

Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2023, 62, 12656
DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.3c01047

Time-resolved fluorescence microscopy (FLIM) as an analytical tool in skin nanomedicine

Ulrike Alexiev, Pierre Volz, Alexander Boreham and Robert Brodwolf

European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 2017, 116, 111
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2017.01.005

Exploring BODIPY-Based Sensor for Imaging of Intracellular Microviscosity in Human Breast Cancer Cells

Dziugas Jurgutis, Greta Jarockyte, Vilius Poderys, Jelena Dodonova-Vaitkuniene, Sigitas Tumkevicius, Aurimas Vysniauskas, Ricardas Rotomskis and Vitalijus Karabanovas

IJMS, 2022, 23, 5687
DOI: 10.3390/ijms23105687

Fluorescent Molecular Rotors of Organoboron Compounds from Schiff Bases: Synthesis, Viscosity, Reversible Thermochromism, Cytotoxicity, and Bioimaging Cells

Marisol Ibarra-Rodrı́guez, Blanca M. Muñoz-Flores, H. V. Rasika Dias, Mario Sánchez, Alberto Gomez-Treviño, Rosa Santillan, Norberto Farfán and Víctor M. Jiménez-Pérez

J. Org. Chem., 2017, 82, 2375
DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.6b02802

8-Aminoquinoline-containing squaric acid congeners as polarity and viscosity probes

Luca Ceresa, Daniel D. Ta, Lauren M. Edwards, Joseph D. Kimball, Zygmunt K. Gryczynski and Sergei V. Dzyuba

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 2023, 437, 114498
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2022.114498

Visualising UV-A light-induced damage to plasma membranes of eye lens

Peter S. Sherin, Aurimas Vyšniauskas, Ismael López-Duarte, Peter R. Ogilby and Marina K. Kuimova

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, 2021, 225, 112346
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2021.112346

Polarity Mapping of Cells and Embryos by Improved Fluorescent Solvatochromic Pyrene Probe

Jurga Valanciunaite, Emilie Kempf, Hitomi Seki, Dmytro I. Danylchuk, Nadine Peyriéras, Yosuke Niko and Andrey S. Klymchenko

Anal. Chem., 2020, 92, 6512
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00023

Fast Timing Techniques in FLIM Applications

Liisa M. Hirvonen and Klaus Suhling

Front. Phys., 2020, 8
DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2020.00161

Ice Confinement-Induced Solubilization and Aggregation of Cyanonaphthol Revealed by Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Lifetime Measurements

Tomoya Muto, Makoto Harada, Gaku Fukuhara and Tetsuo Okada

J. Phys. Chem. B, 2020, 124, 3734
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c01451

Synthesis of a dual-emissive pyrene-based fluorescent probe for imaging intracellular viscosity

Seonyoung Jo, Sihyun Kim, Yena Lee, Gayoung Kim, Sehoon Kim, Soojin Lee and Taek Seung Lee

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 2022, 433, 114147
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2022.114147

Coordinated motion of molecular motors on DNA chains with branch topology

Di Lu and Bin Chen

Acta Mech. Sin., 2021, 37, 1580
DOI: 10.1007/s10409-021-01131-w

Planarizable Push–Pull Probes: Overtwisted Flipper Mechanophores

Mariano Macchione, Nicolas Chuard, Naomi Sakai and Stefan Matile

ChemPlusChem, 2017, 82, 1062
DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201600634

A simple benzothiazole-based mitochondrial-targeting fluorescent probe for visualizing and monitoring viscosity in living cell, lung organ tissue, and living mice

Lijun Tang, Lei Zhou, Xiaomei Yan, Keli Zhong, Xue Gao, Xiuying Liu and Jianrong Li

Dyes and Pigments, 2020, 182, 108644
DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2020.108644

Nucleotides Bearing Red Viscosity-Sensitive Dimethoxy-Bodipy Fluorophore for Enzymatic Incorporation and DNA Labeling

Miroslav Kuba, Radek Pohl, Tomáš Kraus and Michal Hocek

Bioconjugate Chem., 2023, 34, 133
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.2c00547

Nir Fluorophore for Monitoring Viscosity in Vitro, in Vivo, and Ex Vivo, and Dynamic Tracking Lipid Droplets in Live System

Chuang Liu, Sheng Ye, Di Zhang, Jian Chen, Huichun Xiao, Jinqing Qu and Ruiyuan Liu

SSRN Journal, 2022
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4046029

Fluorescent rotor: Labeling lysosomes, mitochondria and lipid droplets through polarity and viscosity assessment

Athul K.K, Swapan Maity, Niharika Pareek, Premjit Kar, Pralay Maiti and Sankarprasad Bhuniya

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 2024, 454, 115727
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2024.115727

Hydrodynamics of molecular rotors in lipid membranes

Vinny Chandran Suja, Naomi Oppenheimer and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Fluids, 2025, 10
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.10.L041101

Design and Application of Fluorescent Probes to Detect Cellular Physical Microenvironments

Junbao Ma, Rui Sun, Kaifu Xia, Qiuxuan Xia, Yu Liu and Xin Zhang

Chem. Rev., 2024, 124, 1738
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00573

A Molecular Rotor that Measures Dynamic Changes of Lipid Bilayer Viscosity Caused by Oxidative Stress

Aurimas Vyšniauskas, Maryam Qurashi and Marina K. Kuimova

Chemistry A European J, 2016, 22, 13210
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201601925

Fluorescent Molecular Rotors for Viscosity Sensors

Seung‐Chul Lee, Jeongyun Heo, Hee Chul Woo, Ji‐Ah Lee, Young Hun Seo, Chang‐Lyoul Lee, Sehoon Kim and O‐Pil Kwon

Chemistry A European J, 2018, 24, 13706
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201801389

A Dual-Control Strategy by Phosphate Ions and Local Microviscosity for Tracking Adenosine Triphosphate Metabolism in Mitochondria and Cellular Activity Dynamically

Peng Zhang, Xinjie Guo, Jian Gao, Haihong Liu, Chenyang Wan, Jiajia Li, Qian Zhang, Yuqing Song and Caifeng Ding

ACS Sens., 2021, 6, 4225
DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.1c01850

Rational design of NIR fluorescence probes for sensitive detection of viscosity in living cells

Gaobin Zhang, Yun Ni, Duoteng Zhang, Hao Li, Nanxiang Wang, Changmin Yu, Lin Li and Wei Huang

Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2019, 214, 339
DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2019.02.068

Influence of Simvastatin and Pravastatin on the Biophysical Properties of Model Lipid Bilayers and Plasma Membranes of Live Cells

Artu̅ras Polita, Ru̅ta Bagdonaitė, Arun Prabha Shivabalan and Gintaras Valinčius

ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng., 2024, 10, 5714
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.4c00911

Flapping Peryleneimide as a Fluorescent Viscosity Probe: Comparison with BODIPY and DCVJ Molecular Rotors

Ryo Kimura, Hidetsugu Kitakado, Atsuhiro Osuka and Shohei Saito

Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2020, 93, 1102
DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.20200117

Luminescent Carbazole-Based EuIII and YbIII Complexes with a High Two-Photon Absorption Cross-Section Enable Viscosity Sensing in the Visible and Near IR with One- and Two-Photon Excitation

Jorge H. S. K. Monteiro, Natalie R. Fetto, Matthew J. Tucker and Ana de Bettencourt-Dias

Inorg. Chem., 2020, 59, 3193
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b03561

Electrochemical Switching of a Fluorescent Molecular Rotor Embedded within a Bistable Rotaxane

Yilei Wu, Marco Frasconi, Wei-Guang Liu, Ryan M. Young, William A. Goddard, Michael R. Wasielewski and J. Fraser Stoddart

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142, 11835
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c03701

Visualization of the Sol–Gel Transition in Porous Networks Using Fluorescent Viscosity-Sensitive Probes

Romane Le Dizès Castell, Elham Mirzahossein, Marion Grzelka, Sara Jabbari-Farouji, Daniel Bonn and Noushine Shahidzadeh

J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2024, 15, 628
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02634

A passive physical model for DnaK chaperoning

Lionel Uhl, Audrey Dumont and Sam Dukan

Phys. Biol., 2018, 15, 026003
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/aa9130

Unravelling the Enzymatic Degradation Mechanism of Supramolecular Peptide Nanofibers and Its Correlation with Their Internal Viscosity

Yejiao Shi, Peter A. Summers, Marina K. Kuimova and Helena S. Azevedo

Nano Lett., 2020, 20, 7375
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02781

Simultaneous Detection of Carbon Monoxide and Viscosity Changes in Cells

Jonathan A. Robson, Markéta Kubánková, Tamzin Bond, Rian A. Hendley, Andrew J. P. White, Marina K. Kuimova and James D. E. T. Wilton‐Ely

Angew Chem Int Ed, 2020, 59, 21431
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202008224

Luminescence lifetime imaging of three-dimensional biological objects

Ruslan I. Dmitriev, Xavier Intes and Margarida M. Barroso

Journal of Cell Science, 2021, 134, 1
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.254763

Surface-Mediated Molecular Transport of a Lipophilic Fluorescent Probe in Polydisperse Oil-in-Water Emulsions

Marius R. Bittermann, Tatiana I. Morozova, Santiago F. Velandia, Elham Mirzahossein, Antoine Deblais, Sander Woutersen and Daniel Bonn

Langmuir, 2023, 39, 4207
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c02597

How Does Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Model Membranes Reflect Cell Membrane Heterogeneity?

Taras Sych, Cenk Onur Gurdap, Linda Wedemann and Erdinc Sezgin

Membranes, 2021, 11, 323
DOI: 10.3390/membranes11050323

A “Distorted‐BODIPY”‐Based Fluorescent Probe for Imaging of Cellular Viscosity in Live Cells

Hao Zhu, Jiangli Fan, Miao Li, Jianfang Cao, Jingyun Wang and Xiaojun Peng

Chemistry A European J, 2014, 20, 4691
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201304296

Uptake and localisation of small-molecule fluorescent probes in living cells: a critical appraisal of QSAR models and a case study concerning probes for DNA and RNA

Richard W. Horobin, Juan C. Stockert and F. Rashid-Doubell

Histochem Cell Biol, 2013, 139, 623
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-013-1090-0

Bioanalysis in single cells: current advances and challenges

Hong-Yuan Chen

Sci. China Chem., 2020, 63, 564
DOI: 10.1007/s11426-020-9719-9

Identifying and selecting edible luminescent probes as sensors of food quality

Maria G. Corradini, Yan Lavinia Wang, An Le, Sarah M. Waxman, Bogumil Zelent, Rahul Chib, Ignacy Gryczynski and Richard D. Ludescher

AIMS Biophysics, 2016, 3, 319
DOI: 10.3934/biophy.2016.2.319

Synthesis of 2′-deoxycytidine and its triphosphate bearing tryptophan-based imidazolinone fluorophore for environment sensitive fluorescent labelling of DNA

Miroslav Kuba, Radek Pohl and Michal Hocek

Tetrahedron, 2018, 74, 6621
DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2018.09.061

Helical Self-Assembly-Induced Singlet–Triplet Emissive Switching in a Mechanically Sensitive System

Hongwei Wu, Yunyun Zhou, Liyuan Yin, Cheng Hang, Xin Li, Hans Ågren, Tao Yi, Qing Zhang and Liangliang Zhu

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 785
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b10550

Imaging intracellular viscosity by a new molecular rotor suitable for phasor analysis of fluorescence lifetime

Antonella Battisti, Silvio Panettieri, Gerardo Abbandonato, Emanuela Jacchetti, Francesco Cardarelli, Giovanni Signore, Fabio Beltram and Ranieri Bizzarri

Anal Bioanal Chem, 2013, 405, 6223
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-013-7084-x

Monitoring Cell Plasma Membrane Polarity by a NIR Fluorescence Probe with Unexpected Cell Plasma Membrane-Targeting Ability

Jiaojiao Liu, Mei Liu, Fancheng Meng, Jiajia Lv, Mingyan Yang, Jie Gao, Gang Wei, Zeli Yuan and Hongyu Li

ACS Omega, 2022, 7, 46891
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.2c05997

A BODIPY‐Based Molecular Rotor in Giant Unilamellar Vesicles: A Case Study by Polarization‐Resolved Time‐Resolved Emission and Transient Absorption Spectroscopy

Keshav Kumar Jha, Amrutha Prabhakaran, Lukas Spantzel, Rengel Cane Sia, Iván Pérez, Ruben Arturo Arellano‐Reyes, Anna Elmanova, Anindita Dasgupta, Christian Eggeling, Michael Börsch, Julien Guthmuller, Martin Presselt, Tia E. Keyes and Benjamin Dietzek‐Ivanšić

ChemPhotoChem, 2023, 7
DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202300091

Suppression of Kasha's rule as a mechanism for fluorescent molecular rotors and aggregation-induced emission

Hai Qian, Morgan E. Cousins, Erik H. Horak, Audrey Wakefield, Matthew D. Liptak and Ivan Aprahamian

Nature Chem, 2017, 9, 83
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2612

Physicochemical Perspective of Biological Heterogeneity

Karina Kwapiszewska

ACS Phys. Chem Au, 2024, 4, 314
DOI: 10.1021/acsphyschemau.3c00079

Conformational Control of Ultrafast Molecular Rotor Property: Tuning Viscosity Sensing Efficiency by Twist Angle Variation

Rajib Ghosh, Archana Kushwaha and Dipanwita Das

J. Phys. Chem. B, 2017, 121, 8786
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b05947

Photocatalysis: A step closer to the perfect synthesis

Youssef Abderrazak

Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2020, 920, 121335
DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2020.121335

Photoactive porphyrin-fluorescein arrays to control the acidity of medium

Anastasia E. Likhonina, Galina M. Mamardashvili and Nugzar Z. Mamardashvili

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 2022, 424, 113650
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2021.113650

2,5-bis[2-(2-phenyl-1,3-oxazol-5-yl)phenyl]-1,3,4-oxadiazole – new sterically hindered high Stokes shift fluorophore sensitive to media viscosity

Rodion Yu Iliashenko, Oleg O. Borodin, Michał Wera and Andrey O. Doroshenko

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 2015, 298, 68
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2014.10.018

Ratiometric Imaging of γ-Glutamyl Transpeptidase Unperturbed by pH, Polarity, and Viscosity Changes: A Benzocoumarin-Based Two-Photon Fluorescent Probe

Ye Jin Reo, Yong Woong Jun, Sourav Sarkar, Mingchong Dai and Kyo Han Ahn

Anal. Chem., 2019, 91, 14101
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b03942

Unraveling of Functional Activity of Primary Hippocampal Neuron-Glial Networks in Photodynamic Therapy Based on Tetracyanotetra(aryl)porphyrazines

Maria O. Savyuk, Victoria D. Turubanova, Tatiana A. Mishchenko, Svetlana A. Lermontova, Larisa G. Klapshina, Dmitri V. Krysko and Maria V. Vedunova

Cells, 2022, 11, 1212
DOI: 10.3390/cells11071212

Mechanism and Nature of the Different Viscosity Sensitivities of Hemicyanine Dyes with Various Heterocycles

Jianfang Cao, Chong Hu, Fei Liu, Wen Sun, Jiangli Fan, Fengling Song, Shiguo Sun and Xiaojun Peng

ChemPhysChem, 2013, 14, 1601
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201300049

Ultrafast Excited-State Deactivation of the Bacterial Pigment Violacein

Ashley A. Beckstead, Yuyuan Zhang, Jonathan K. Hilmer, Heidi J. Smith, Emily Bermel, Christine M. Foreman and Bern Kohler

J. Phys. Chem. A, 2017
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b05769

Potential applications of luminescent molecular rotors in food science and engineering

Fatemah M. Alhassawi, Maria G. Corradini, Michael A. Rogers and Richard D. Ludescher

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2018, 58, 1902
DOI: 10.1080/10408398.2017.1278583

Photoisomerization of DiD: Molecular Dynamics Calculations Reveal the Influence of Tail Lengths

M. Paloncýová, J. Tornmalm, S. Sen, J. Piguet, J. Widengren and S. Knippenberg

J. Phys. Chem. C, 2020, 124, 5829
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b10322

BODIPY-Ethynylestradiol molecular rotors as fluorescent viscosity probes in endoplasmic reticulum

Diego Martínez-Bourget, Erika Rocha, Pablo Labra-Vázquez, Rosa Santillan, Benjamín Ortiz-López, Vianney Ortiz-Navarrete, Valérie Maraval, Remi Chauvin and Norberto Farfán

Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2022, 283, 121704
DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2022.121704

Probing supramolecular protein assembly using covalently attached fluorescent molecular rotors

Markéta Kubánková, Ismael López-Duarte, James A. Bull, Devkee M. Vadukul, Louise C. Serpell, Marie de Saint Victor, Eleanor Stride and Marina K. Kuimova

Biomaterials, 2017, 139, 195
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2017.06.009

Dynamic moisture loss explored through quantitative super-resolution microscopy, spatial micro-viscosity and macroscopic analyses in acid milk gels

Zachary J. Glover, Mathew J. Francis, Anne Højmark Bisgaard, Ulf Andersen, Lene Buhelt Johansen, Megan J. Povey, Melvin J. Holmes, Jonathan R. Brewer and Adam Cohen Simonsen

Food Hydrocolloids, 2020, 101, 105501
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2019.105501

Optimizing the Fluorescence Properties of Nanoemulsions for Single Particle Tracking in Live Cells

Xinyue Wang, Nicolas Anton, Pichandi Ashokkumar, Halina Anton, Tkhe Kyong Fam, Thierry Vandamme, Andrey S. Klymchenko and Mayeul Collot

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2019, 11, 13079
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b22297

Predicting small molecule fluorescent probe localization in living cells using QSAR modeling. 1. Overview and models for probes of structure, properties and function in single cells

RW Horobin, F Rashid-Doubell, JD Pediani and G Milligan

Biotechnic & Histochemistry, 2013, 88, 440
DOI: 10.3109/10520295.2013.780634

Lipidomic landscape in cancer: Actionable insights for membrane‐based therapy and diagnoses

Prema K. Agarwala, Ritu Aneja and Shobhna Kapoor

Medicinal Research Reviews, 2022, 42, 983
DOI: 10.1002/med.21868

Coordinated motion of molecular motors on DNA chains with branch topology

Di Lu and Bin Chen

Acta Mech. Sin., 2022, 38
DOI: 10.1007/s10409-021-09045-x

Assessment of differential magnetic susceptibility in nanoparticles: Effects of changes in viscosity and immobilisation

Kalthoum Riahi, Melissa M. van de Loosdrecht, Lejla Alic and Bennie ten Haken

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2020, 514, 167238
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2020.167238

Ring Size Effects on Multi‐Stimuli Responsive Luminescent Properties of Cyclic Amine Substituted β‐Diketones and Difluoroboron Complexes

Fang Wang, Daniel Song, Diane A. Dickie and Cassandra L. Fraser

Chemistry An Asian Journal, 2019, 14, 1849
DOI: 10.1002/asia.201801576

Red-Emitting Mitochondrial Probe with Ultrahigh Signal-to-Noise Ratio Enables High-Fidelity Fluorescent Images in Two-Photon Microscopy

Ge Zhang, Yuming Sun, Xiuquan He, Weijia Zhang, Minggang Tian, Ruiqing Feng, Ruoyao Zhang, Xuechen Li, Lifang Guo, Xiaoqiang Yu and Shangli Zhang

Anal. Chem., 2015, 87, 12088
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b02807

Design and antibacterial activity of a hybrid fluorophore where porphyrin and Rose Bengal moieties are linked through the carboxyl group of a xanthene dye

G.M. Mamardashvili, E.Yu. Kaigorodova, K.A. Ivanova, I.K. Tomilova, E.L. Aleksakhina, O.A. Pakhrova, A.E. Likhonina and N.Zh. Mamardashvili

Journal of Molecular Structure, 2025, 1336, 142147
DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2025.142147

Inserting Nitrogen: An Effective Concept To Create Nonplanar and Stimuli-Responsive Perylene Bisimide Analogues

Sakiho Hayakawa, Ayumi Kawasaki, Yongseok Hong, Daisuke Uraguchi, Takashi Ooi, Dongho Kim, Tomoyuki Akutagawa, Norihito Fukui and Hiroshi Shinokubo

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 19807
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b09556

A Phosphorescent Molecular “Butterfly” that undergoes a Photoinduced Structural Change allowing Temperature Sensing and White Emission

Mingu Han, Yu Tian, Zhao Yuan, Lei Zhu and Biwu Ma

Angewandte Chemie, 2014, 126, 11088
DOI: 10.1002/ange.201405293

Analysis of the Spectroscopic Aspects of Cationic Dye Basic Orange 21

Zehavit Eizig, Dan T. Major, Harvey L. Kasdan, Elena Afrimzon, Naomi Zurgil, Maria Sobolev and Mordechai Deutsch

J. Phys. Chem. A, 2015, 119, 9794
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b07339

An Energy‐Tunable Dual Emission Mechanism of the Hybridized Local and Charge Transfer (HLCT) and the Excited State Conjugation Enhancement (ESCE)

Kensuke Suga, Keisuke Ochiai, Yusuke Yoneda, Hikaru Kuramochi and Shohei Saito

Chemistry A European J, 2025, 31
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202404376

FLIM reveals alternative EV-mediated cellular up-take pathways of paclitaxel

H. Saari, E. Lisitsyna, K. Rautaniemi, T. Rojalin, L. Niemi, O. Nivaro, T. Laaksonen, M. Yliperttula and E. Vuorimaa-Laukkanen

Journal of Controlled Release, 2018, 284, 133
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2018.06.015

Simultaneous Detection of Carbon Monoxide and Viscosity Changes in Cells

Jonathan A. Robson, Markéta Kubánková, Tamzin Bond, Rian A. Hendley, Andrew J. P. White, Marina K. Kuimova and James D. E. T. Wilton‐Ely

Angewandte Chemie, 2020, 132, 21615
DOI: 10.1002/ange.202008224

Real-Time and In Situ Viscosity Monitoring in Industrial Adhesives Using Luminescent Cu(I) Phenanthroline Molecular Sensors

Ankit Dara, Derek M. Mast, Anton O. Razgoniaev, Cory E. Hauke, Felix N. Castellano and Alexis D. Ostrowski

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2022, 14, 33976
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c06554

Recent Advances of Fluorescence Probes for Imaging of Ferroptosis Process

Hongyu Li, Yan An, Jie Gao, Mingyan Yang, Junjun Luo, Xinmin Li, Jiajia Lv, Xiaohua Li, Zeli Yuan and Huimin Ma

Chemosensors, 2022, 10, 233
DOI: 10.3390/chemosensors10060233

Using Biological Photophysics to Map the Excited‐State Topology of Molecular Photosensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy

Avinash Chettri, Tingxiang Yang, Houston D. Cole, Ge Shi, Colin G. Cameron, Sherri A. McFarland and Benjamin Dietzek‐Ivanšić

Angew Chem Int Ed, 2023, 62
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202301452

Medium viscosity effect on the fluorescent properties of arrays consisting of two BODIPY chromophores axially bound to a Sn(IV)porphyrin via a phenolate bridge

G.M. Mamardashvili, E.Yu. Kaigorodova, N.Z. Mamardashvili and O.I. Koifman

J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 2023, 27, 373
DOI: 10.1142/S1088424623500025

Mechanosensitive Membrane Probes

Marta Dal Molin, Quentin Verolet, Saeideh Soleimanpour and Stefan Matile

Chemistry A European J, 2015, 21, 6012
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201406320

Microscopic Viscosity of Neuronal Plasma Membranes Measured Using Fluorescent Molecular Rotors: Effects of Oxidative Stress and Neuroprotection

Markéta Kubánková, Peter A. Summers, Ismael López-Duarte, Darya Kiryushko and Marina K. Kuimova

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2019, 11, 36307
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b10426

Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy of flexible and rigid dyes probes the biophysical properties of synthetic and biological membranes

Rafael B. Lira, Laura S. Dillingh, Jan-Jacob Schuringa, Gokhan Yahioglu, Klaus Suhling and Wouter H. Roos

Biophysical Journal, 2024, 123, 1592
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2024.04.033

Ionic Aggregation‐Induced Emission: Bulky Hydrophobic Counterions Light Up Dyes in Polymeric Nanoparticles

Ilya O. Aparin, Nina Melnychuk and Andrey S. Klymchenko

Advanced Optical Materials, 2020, 8
DOI: 10.1002/adom.202000027

Highly Enantioselective Ruthenium-Catalyzed Cascade Double Reduction Strategy: Construction of Structurally Diverse Julolidines and Their Analogues

Li-Ren Wang, Dan Chang, Yu Feng, Yan-Mei He, Guo-Jun Deng and Qing-Hua Fan

Org. Lett., 2020, 22, 2251
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c00444

Facile Synthesis of Highly Sensitive, Red-Emitting, Fluorogenic Dye for Microviscosity and Mitochondrial Imaging in Embryonic Stem Cells

Sufi O. Raja, Gandhi Sivaraman, Ananya Mukherjee, Chellappa Duraisamy and Akash Gulyani

ChemistrySelect, 2017, 2, 4609
DOI: 10.1002/slct.201700463

The Dark State, Vibronic Coupling, and Viscosity Sensing of Methoxylated Benzoyl Coumarins

Thanh Chung Pham, Dung Ngoc Tran, Thong Van Pham, Van Trang Nguyen, Dai Lam Tran and Minh Tho Nguyen

ChemPhysChem, 2025, 26
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202500182

Plasmonic–Magnetic Active Nanorheology for Intracellular Viscosity

Sungwoo Lee, Insub Jung, Soohyun Lee, Junghyun Shin, Eunbyeol Cho, Sangbaek Jung, Seongkeun Ih, Yang-Gyun Kim, Seunghun Hong, Yoon-La Choi and Sungho Park

Nano Lett., 2023, 23, 2031
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c04761

Surface functionalisation with viscosity-sensitive BODIPY molecular rotor

Aurimas Vyšniauskas, Ismael Lopez-Duarte, Alex J Thompson, James A Bull and Marina K Kuimova

Methods Appl. Fluoresc., 2018, 6, 034001
DOI: 10.1088/2050-6120/aabb2c

Twin Nanopipettes for Real-Time Electrochemical Monitoring of Cytoplasmic Microviscosity at a Single-Cell Level

Si-Yuan Yu, Tian-Yang Zhang, Yi-Li Liu, Juan Song, De-Man Han, Wei-Wei Zhao, Dechen Jiang, Jing-Juan Xu and Hong-Yuan Chen

Anal. Chem., 2021, 93, 6831
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c00879

Flapping Peryleneimide as a Fluorogenic Dye with High Photostability and Strong Visible‐Light Absorption

Ryo Kimura, Hikaru Kuramochi, Pengpeng Liu, Takuya Yamakado, Atsuhiro Osuka, Tahei Tahara and Shohei Saito

Angewandte Chemie, 2020, 132, 16572
DOI: 10.1002/ange.202006198

A General Strategy to Control Viscosity Sensitivity of Molecular Rotor‐Based Fluorophores

Songtao Ye, Han Zhang, Jinyu Fei, Charles H. Wolstenholme and Xin Zhang

Angewandte Chemie, 2021, 133, 1359
DOI: 10.1002/ange.202011108

CCNJ and DCNJ are bright julolidine-based fluorescent molecular rotors

Yufei Qin, Yanling Luo, Jiaming Guo, Yonggang Liu, Yimin Chen, Yiling Zhu, Huiyan Zhang, Yuying Li, Hualong Fu, Xiaojiang Duan, Mengchao Cui and Kaixiang Zhou

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2025, 444, 138472
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2025.138472

Dual Key‐Activated Nir‐I/II Fluorescence Probe for Monitoring Photodynamic and Photothermal Synergistic Therapy Efficacy

Wen‐Xin Wang, Jing‐Jing Chao, Zhi‐Qing Wang, Ting Liu, Guo‐Jiang Mao, Bin Yang and Chun‐Yan Li

Adv Healthcare Materials, 2023, 12
DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202301230

Twisted Push‐Pull Probes with Turn‐On Sulfide Donors

Quentin Verolet, Marta Dal Molin, Adai Colom, Aurélien Roux, Laure Guénée, Naomi Sakai and Stefan Matile

Helvetica Chimica Acta, 2017, 100
DOI: 10.1002/hlca.201600328

U‐Shaped Conjugated Oligomer‐Based Micelles as a Ratiometric Fluorescent Nanothermometer for Diverse Cellular Applications

Rui Peng, Hean Zhang, Chuang Yao, Qianling Cui, Yufeng Luo and Lidong Li

Advanced Optical Materials, 2023, 11
DOI: 10.1002/adom.202300222

Fluorescence enhancement of water-soluble porphyrin-containing conjugated polymer induced by DNA and cellular imaging in living cells

Lingyun Wang, Huihui Li, Guipo Fang, Jiaan Zhou and Derong Cao

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2014, 196, 653
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2014.02.056

Modeling of the axon plasma membrane structure and its effects on protein diffusion

Yihao Zhang, Anastasios V. Tzingounis, George Lykotrafitis and Avner Schlessinger

PLoS Comput Biol, 2019, 15, e1007003
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007003

Probing Liquid-Ordered and Disordered Phases in Lipid Model Membranes: A Combined Theoretical and Spectroscopic Study of a Fluorescent Molecular Rotor

Gianluca Del Frate, Marina Macchiagodena, Muhammad Jan Akhunzada, Francesca D’Autilia, Andrea Catte, Nicholus Bhattacharjee, Vincenzo Barone, Francesco Cardarelli and Giuseppe Brancato

J. Phys. Chem. B, 2022, 126, 480
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c08324

Deciphering Multiple Critical Parameters of Polymeric Self-Assembly by Fluorescence Spectroscopy of a Single Molecular Rotor BODIPY-C12

Ekaterina Lisitsyna, Alexander Efimov, Clémentine Depresle, Pierre Cauchois, Elina Vuorimaa-Laukkanen, Timo Laaksonen and Nikita Durandin

Macromolecules, 2021, 54, 655
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c02167

Iron Oxide Based Nanoparticles for Magnetic Hyperthermia Strategies in Biological Applications

Yolanda Piñeiro, Zulema Vargas, José Rivas and Manuel Arturo López‐Quintela

Eur J Inorg Chem, 2015, 2015, 4495
DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201500598

Molecular rotor as a structural probe of glucan polymers: Amylopectin, phytoglycogen, and their β-limit dextrins as models

Xingyun Peng and Yuan Yao

Carbohydrate Polymers, 2020, 250, 116859
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2020.116859

Rotamer-Restricted Fluorogenicity of the Bis-Arsenical ReAsH

Allison S. Walker, Paul R. Rablen and Alanna Schepartz

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 7143
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b03422

Low-Molecular Push–Pull Pyrazoline Derivatives: Solvatochromic Effect and Theoretical Insights into Dye-based Molecular Engineering

Karolina Anna Haupa, Adam Szukalski and Jarosław Myśliwiec

J. Phys. Chem. A, 2018, 122, 7808
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b04814

Cell Fuelling and Metabolic Energy Conservation in Synthetic Cells

Hendrik R. Sikkema, Bauke F. Gaastra, Tjeerd Pols and Bert Poolman

ChemBioChem, 2019, 20, 2581
DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201900398

Microviscosity and temperature sensors: The twists and turns of the photophysics of conjugated porphyrin dimers — a SPP/JPP Young Investigator Award paper

Aurimas Vyšniauskas and Marina K. Kuimova

J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 2020, 24, 1372
DOI: 10.1142/S1088424620300050

Quantitative Viscosity Mapping Using Fluorescence Lifetime Measurements

J. Dench, N. Morgan and J. S. S. Wong

Tribol Lett, 2017, 65
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-016-0807-3

Lipid–Protein Interactions in Plasma Membrane Organization and Function

Taras Sych, Kandice R. Levental and Erdinc Sezgin

Annu. Rev. Biophys., 2022, 51, 135
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-090721-072718

Laurdan as a Molecular Rotor in Biological Environments

Silvio Osella and Stefan Knippenberg

ACS Appl. Bio Mater., 2019, 2, 5769
DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.9b00789

Merocyanine-based near-infrared molecular rotor for monitoring viscosity changes in living cells

Lingyan Wang, Xu Ding, Hailin Bai, Feng Liu, Fenglin Wang, Zhihong Peng and Jianhui Jiang

Talanta, 2026, 296, 128479
DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2025.128479

An approach to estimate spatial distribution of analyte within cells using spectrally-resolved fluorescence microscopy

Dharmendar Kumar Sharma, Mir Irfanullah, Santanu Kumar Basu, Sheri Madhu, Suman De, Sameer Jadhav, Mangalampalli Ravikanth and Arindam Chowdhury

Methods Appl. Fluoresc., 2017, 5, 014003
DOI: 10.1088/2050-6120/5/1/014003

A twisted tale: measuring viscosity and temperature of microenvironments using molecular rotors

Aurimas Vyšniauskas and Marina K. Kuimova

International Reviews in Physical Chemistry, 2018, 37, 259
DOI: 10.1080/0144235X.2018.1510461

Interaction of a Julolidine-Based Neutral Ultrafast Molecular Rotor with Natural DNA: Spectroscopic and Molecular Docking Studies

Rahul Kalel, Aruna K. Mora, Rajib Ghosh, Dilip D. Dhavale, Dipak K. Palit and Sukhendu Nath

J. Phys. Chem. B, 2016, 120, 9843
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b04811

Palladium Nanoparticles in Glycerol/Ionic Liquid/Carbon Dioxide Medium as Hydrogenation Catalysts

Garima Garg, Anna M. Masdeu-Bultó, Norberto Farfán, Javier Ordóñez-Hernández, Montserrat Gómez and Yaocihuatl Medina-González

ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 2020, 3, 12240
DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.0c02706

Microfluidic Cytometry for High‐Throughput Characterization of Single Cell Cytoplasmic Viscosity Using Crossing Constriction Channels

Ke Wang, Xiaohao Sun, Yi Zhang, Yuanchen Wei, Deyong Chen, Hengan Wu, Zijian Song, Rong Long, Junbo Wang and Jian Chen

Cytometry Pt A, 2020, 97, 630
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.23921

Microviscosity in E. coli Cells from Time-Resolved Linear Dichroism Measurements

Eefei Chen, Raymond M. Esquerra, Philipp A. Meléndez, Sita S. Chandrasekaran and David S. Kliger

J. Phys. Chem. B, 2018, 122, 11381
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b07362

Thermographical Method to Assess the Performance of Magnetic Nanoparticles in Hyperthermia Experiments through Spatiotemporal Temperature Profiles

D.P. Valdés, T.E. Torres, A.C. Moreno Maldonado, G. Urretavizcaya, M.S. Nadal, M. Vasquez Mansilla, R.D. Zysler, G.F. Goya, E. De Biasi and E. Lima

Phys. Rev. Applied, 2023, 19
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.014042

Reflecting Size Differences of Exosomes by Using the Combination of Membrane-Targeting Viscosity Probe and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy

Ning Li, Zhenlong Huang, Xinfu Zhang, Xinbo Song and Yi Xiao

Anal. Chem., 2019, 91, 15308
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b04587

The use of fluorescence time-resolved microscopy to increase the endoplasmic reticulum selectivity of arylidene-imidazolones fluorogenic dyes

A. R. Gilvanov, A. Y. Smirnov, S. A. Krasnova, I. D. Solovyev, A. P. Savitsky, Yu. A. Bogdanova and M. S. Baranov

RUBI, 2024, 50, 694
DOI: 10.31857/S0132342324050129

Aggregation-induced emission-based fluorescent probes for cellular microenvironment detection

Xiang-Fei Li and Fu-Gen Wu

Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2025, 274, 117130
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2025.117130

Fluorescent Molecular Rotors Quantify an Adjuvant-Induced Softening of Plant Wax

Petr S. Sherin, Markus Rueckel and Marina K. Kuimova

Chemical & Biomedical Imaging, 2024, 2, 453
DOI: 10.1021/cbmi.4c00005

Using Biological Photophysics to Map the Excited‐State Topology of Molecular Photosensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy

Avinash Chettri, Tingxiang Yang, Houston D. Cole, Ge Shi, Colin G. Cameron, Sherri A. McFarland and Benjamin Dietzek‐Ivanšić

Angewandte Chemie, 2023, 135
DOI: 10.1002/ange.202301452

Fluorescent molecular rotor-based polymer materials for local microviscosity mapping in microfluidic channels

Dharshana Nalatamby, Florence Gibouin, Maxime Zitouni, Julien Renaudeau, Gérald Clisson, Pierre Lidon, Simon Harrisson and Yaocihuatl Medina-Gonzalez

Chemical Engineering Journal, 2025, 520, 165459
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2025.165459

Viscosity-Responsive Electrochemiluminescence of Diphenylbenzofulvene Derivatives

Zhengang Han, Miaomiao Chai, Xinyao Yu, Jinlong Wang, Yaqi Zhao, Aijuan Zhao and Xiaoquan Lu

Anal. Chem., 2023, 95, 7036
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c00727

Colorimetric and Fluorimetric DNA Detection with a Hydroxystyryl–Quinolizinium Photoacid and Its Application for Cell Imaging

Avijit Kumar Das, Sergey I. Druzhinin, Heiko Ihmels, Mareike Müller and Holger Schönherr

Chemistry A European J, 2019, 25, 12703
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201903017

Detection and Quantification of Nonlabeled Polystyrene Nanoparticles Using a Fluorescent Molecular Rotor

Angélique Moraz and Florian Breider

Anal. Chem., 2021, 93, 14976
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c02055

A scalable computational platform for particulate Stokes suspensions

Wen Yan, Eduardo Corona, Dhairya Malhotra, Shravan Veerapaneni and Michael Shelley

Journal of Computational Physics, 2020, 416, 109524
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2020.109524

Fluorescence lifetime measurements of molecular rotors for protein solubility prediction through non-specific interactions characterization

Yevgeniya Karibjanova, Isaac Rodriguez-Ruiz, Angel Orte, José Antonio Gavira, Pierre Roblin and Sébastien Teychené

Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2024, 415, 126350
DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2024.126350

Acid effect on excited Auramine-O molecular rotor relaxations in solution and adsorbed on insulin fibrils

R Simkovitch, K Akulov, Y Erez, N Amdursky, R Gepshtein, T Schwartz and D Huppert

Methods Appl. Fluoresc., 2015, 3, 034005
DOI: 10.1088/2050-6120/3/3/034005

Ferroptosis Accompanied by •OH Generation and Cytoplasmic Viscosity Increase Revealed via Dual-Functional Fluorescence Probe

Hongyu Li, Wen Shi, Xiaohua Li, Yiming Hu, Yu Fang and Huimin Ma

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 18301
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b09722

Fluorescent Labeling Preserving OCP Photoactivity Reveals Its Reorganization during the Photocycle

Eugene G. Maksimov, Nikolai N. Sluchanko, Kirill S. Mironov, Evgeny A. Shirshin, Konstantin E. Klementiev, Georgy V. Tsoraev, Marcus Moldenhauer, Thomas Friedrich, Dmitry A. Los, Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev, Vladimir Z. Paschenko and Andrew B. Rubin

Biophysical Journal, 2017, 112, 46
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.11.3193

A “Self‐Checking” pH/Viscosity‐Activatable NIR‐II Molecule for Real‐Time Evaluation of Photothermal Therapy Efficacy

Benhao Li, Hengke Liu, Yaling He, Mengyao Zhao, Chen Ge, Muhammad Rizwan Younis, Peng Huang, Xiaoyuan Chen and Jing Lin

Angewandte Chemie, 2022, 134
DOI: 10.1002/ange.202200025

Medium viscosity effect on fluorescent properties of Sn(IV)-tetra(4-sulfonatophenyl)porphyrin complexes in buffer solutions

Galina M. Mamardashvili, Olga V. Maltceva, Dmitriy A. Lazovskiy, Il'ya A. Khodov, Victor Borovkov, Nugzar Zh. Mamardashvili and Oscar I. Koifman

Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2019, 277, 1047
DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2018.12.118

Elasticity and damping ratio measurement of droplets on super-hydrophobic surfaces

Yukai Sun, Yelong Zheng, Le Song, Peiyuan Sun, Meirong Zhao, Yixiong Zhou and Clarence Augustine TH Tee

R. Soc. open sci., 2022, 9
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.211632

Fluorescence Probes Exhibit Photoinduced Structural Planarization: Sensing In Vitro and In Vivo Microscopic Dynamics of Viscosity Free from Polarity Interference

Cheng-Ham Wu, Yi Chen, Kyrylo A. Pyrshev, Yi-Ting Chen, Zhiyun Zhang, Kai-Hsin Chang, Semen O. Yesylevskyy, Alexander P. Demchenko and Pi-Tai Chou

ACS Chem. Biol., 2020, 15, 1862
DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.0c00100

A Rotational BODIPY Nucleotide: An Environment‐Sensitive Fluorescence‐Lifetime Probe for DNA Interactions and Applications in Live‐Cell Microscopy

Dmytro Dziuba, Piotr Jurkiewicz, Marek Cebecauer, Martin Hof and Michal Hocek

Angew Chem Int Ed, 2016, 55, 174
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201507922

Fluorescent molecular rotor probes nanosecond viscosity changes

Federico Caporaletti, Marius R. Bittermann, Daniel Bonn and Sander Woutersen

The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022, 156
DOI: 10.1063/5.0092248

Fluorescence anisotropy imaging in drug discovery

Claudio Vinegoni, Paolo Fumene Feruglio, Ignacy Gryczynski, Ralph Mazitschek and Ralph Weissleder

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2019, 151-152, 262
DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2018.01.019

An Optical Technique for Mapping Microviscosity Dynamics in Cellular Organelles

Joseph E. Chambers, Markéta Kubánková, Roland G. Huber, Ismael López-Duarte, Edward Avezov, Peter J. Bond, Stefan J. Marciniak and Marina K. Kuimova

ACS Nano, 2018, 12, 4398
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b00177

Tuning for Visible Fluorescence and Near-Infrared Phosphorescence on a Unimolecular Mechanically Sensitive Platform via Adjustable CH−π Interaction

Hongwei Wu, Pei Zhao, Xin Li, Wenbo Chen, Hans Ågren, Qing Zhang and Liangliang Zhu

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2017, 9, 3865
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b15939

Far-Red Fluorophore for Monitoring Viscosity In Vitro, In Vivo, and Ex Vivo and Dynamic Tracking of Lipid Droplets in Live Systems

Chuang Liu, Sheng Ye, Di Zhang, Jian Chen, Huichun Xiao, Jinqing Qu and Ruiyuan Liu

ACS Appl. Opt. Mater., 2023, 1, 795
DOI: 10.1021/acsaom.3c00010

Quantitatively Mapping Cellular Viscosity with Detailed Organelle Information via a Designed PET Fluorescent Probe

Tianyu Liu, Xiaogang Liu, David R. Spring, Xuhong Qian, Jingnan Cui and Zhaochao Xu

Sci Rep, 2014, 4
DOI: 10.1038/srep05418

RRS Spectra and Mechanisms for β-Nitro-Tetraphenylporphyrin Fluorescence Quenching

N. V. Ivashin and S. N. Terekhov

Opt. Spectrosc., 2019, 126, 205
DOI: 10.1134/S0030400X19030081

Molecular Probes for Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging

Pinaki Sarder, Dolonchampa Maji and Samuel Achilefu

Bioconjugate Chem., 2015, 26, 963
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.5b00167

Dual mode monitoring probe for mitochondrial viscosity in single cell

Na Jiang, Jiangli Fan, Si Zhang, Tong Wu, Jingyun Wang, Pan Gao, Junle Qu, Fan Zhou and Xiaojun Peng

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2014, 190, 685
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2013.09.062

Dual-state emissive imidazo[1,2-α]pyridines with full color emission, acidochromism, viscosity-dependent fluorescence, and bioimaging applications

Yujie Zhu, Kaihao Liao, Yigao Li, Wenjing Zhang, Bing Song, Xin-Qi Hao and Xinju Zhu

Dyes and Pigments, 2024, 224, 112004
DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2024.112004

Dual-responsive fluorescence probe for measuring HSO3− and viscosity and its application in living cells and real foods

Xiaoying Ma, Xiufeng Zhang, Buyue Zhang, Dawei Yang, Hongxia Sun, Yalin Tang and Lei Shi

Food Chemistry, 2024, 430, 136930
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2023.136930

A viscosity sensitive azide-pyridine BODIPY-based fluorescent dye for imaging of hydrogen sulfide in living cells

Qi Zhao, Caixia Yin, Jin Kang, Ying Wen and Fangjun Huo

Dyes and Pigments, 2018, 159, 166
DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2018.06.029

Organization of inner cellular components as reported by a viscosity-sensitive fluorescent Bodipy probe suitable for phasor approach to FLIM

Gianmarco Ferri, Luca Nucara, Tarita Biver, Antonella Battisti, Giovanni Signore and Ranieri Bizzarri

Biophysical Chemistry, 2016, 208, 17
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2015.06.009

N‐Ethyl Carbazole Derived D‐π‐A‐π‐D Based Fluorophores: Consolidated Spectroscopic, Viscosity and DFT Studies

Manish M. Raikwar, Dhanraj R. Mohbiya and Nagaiyan Sekar

ChemistrySelect, 2019, 4, 11966
DOI: 10.1002/slct.201903171

Effect of ethanol perturbation on viscosity and permeability of an inner membrane in Bacillus subtilis spores

Pauline Loison, Patrick Gervais, Jean-Marie Perrier-Cornet and Marina K. Kuimova

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, 2016, 1858, 2060
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2016.06.003

Flapping Molecules and the Skeletal Motion for New Technologies

尚平齊藤

rle, 2021, 49, 334
DOI: 10.2184/lsj.49.6_334

Dense and Acidic Organelle-Targeted Visualization in Living Cells: Application of Viscosity-Responsive Fluorescence Utilizing Restricted Access to Minimum Energy Conical Intersection

Junya Adachi, Haruka Oda, Toshiaki Fukushima, Beni Lestari, Hiroshi Kimura, Hiroka Sugai, Kentaro Shiraki, Rei Hamaguchi, Kohei Sato and Kazushi Kinbara

Anal. Chem., 2023, 95, 5196
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c04133

Imaging tumor microscopic viscosity in vivo using molecular rotors

Lyubov’ E. Shimolina, Maria Angeles Izquierdo, Ismael López-Duarte, James A. Bull, Marina V. Shirmanova, Larisa G. Klapshina, Elena V. Zagaynova and Marina K. Kuimova

Sci Rep, 2017, 7
DOI: 10.1038/srep41097

Viscosity imaging using heterodyne holographic spectral analysis of Brownian nanorod rotation

Clémence Gentner, Robert Kuszelewicz, Pascal Berto, Haithem Khelfa and Gilles Tessier

Opt. Express, 2021, 29, 527
DOI: 10.1364/OE.410324

Phototoxicity of BODIPY in long-term imaging can be reduced by intramolecular motion

Iida Kähärä, Nikita Durandin, Polina Ilina, Alexander Efimov, Timo Laaksonen, Elina Vuorimaa-Laukkanen and Ekaterina Lisitsyna

Photochem Photobiol Sci, 2022, 21, 1677
DOI: 10.1007/s43630-022-00250-y

Imaging viscosity of intragranular mucin matrix in cystic fibrosis cells

Sebastian Requena, Olga Ponomarchuk, Marlius Castillo, Jonathan Rebik, Emmanuelle Brochiero, Julian Borejdo, Ignacy Gryczynski, Sergei V. Dzyuba, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Ryszard Grygorczyk and Rafal Fudala

Sci Rep, 2017, 7
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-17037-2

Lipid-Conjugated Rigidochromic Probe Discloses Membrane Alteration in Model Cells of Krabbe Disease

Gerardo Abbandonato, Barbara Storti, Ilaria Tonazzini, Martin Stöckl, Vinod Subramaniam, Costanza Montis, Riccardo Nifosì, Marco Cecchini, Giovanni Signore and Ranieri Bizzarri

Biophysical Journal, 2019, 116, 477
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2018.11.3141

Effect of macromolecular crowding on the conformational behaviour of a porphyrin rotor

Shuto Kozaka, Rie Wakabayashi, Onofrio Annunziata, Milan Balaz, Masahiro Goto, Noriho Kamiya and Sergei V. Dzyuba

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 2019, 369, 115
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2018.10.006

FRETing about the details: Case studies in the use of a genetically encoded fluorescent amino acid for distance‐dependent energy transfer

Michael B. Cory, Chloe M. Jones, Kyle D. Shaffer, Yarra Venkatesh, Sam Giannakoulias, Ryann M. Perez, Marshall G. Lougee, Eshe Hummingbird, Vinayak V. Pagar, Christina M. Hurley, Allen Li, Robert H. Mach, Rahul M. Kohli and E. James Petersson

Protein Science, 2023, 32
DOI: 10.1002/pro.4633

Solvent viscosity induces twisted intramolecular charge transfer state lifetime tunable of Thioflavin-T

You Li, Xiaochun Liu, Jianhui Han, Bifa Cao, Chaofan Sun, Lihe Diao, Hang Yin and Ying Shi

Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2019, 222, 117244
DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2019.117244

Influence of solvent basicity on DMABN photophysics

Javier Catalán, M. Ángeles García and Rosa M. Claramunt

J. Phys. Org. Chem., 2017, 30, e3613
DOI: 10.1002/poc.3613

Mapping Live Cell Viscosity with an Aggregation‐Induced Emission Fluorogen by Means of Two‐Photon Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging

Sijie Chen, Yuning Hong, Yan Zeng, Qiqi Sun, Yang Liu, Engui Zhao, Gongxun Bai, Jianan Qu, Jianhua Hao and Ben Zhong Tang

Chemistry A European J, 2015, 21, 4315
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201405658

A bifunctional naphthalimide-based fluorescent probe for imaging lysosomal peroxynitrite and viscosity in living cells and zebrafish

Yiliang Chen, Siyuan Tang, Muhammad Salman Hameed, Xiaolong Xu, Qi Wang, Qian Chen, Jufen Yan, Kui Zhang and Xinya Han

Bioorganic Chemistry, 2025, 154, 108061
DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2024.108061

A cyanine-derived near-infrared molecular rotor for ratiometric imaging of mitochondrial viscosity in cells

Xueluer Mu, Yang Liu, Shengsen Liu, Yilin Sun, Nana Lu, Yingxi Lu, Weiqi Li, Xianfeng Zhou, Bin Liu and Zhibo Li

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2019, 298, 126831
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2019.126831

Molecular Rotors As Conditionally Fluorescent Labels for Rapid Detection of Biomolecular Interactions

Walter L. Goh, Min Yen Lee, Thomas L. Joseph, Soo Tng Quah, Christopher J. Brown, Chandra Verma, Sydney Brenner, Farid J. Ghadessy and Yin Nah Teo

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 6159
DOI: 10.1021/ja413031h

Fluorescence and phosphorescence lifetime imaging reveals a significant cell nuclear viscosity and refractive index changes upon DNA damage

Ellen Clancy, Siva Ramadurai, Sarah R. Needham, Karen Baker, Tara A. Eastwood, Julia A. Weinstein, Daniel P. Mulvihill and Stanley W. Botchway

Sci Rep, 2023, 13
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-26880-x

A Phosphorescent Molecular “Butterfly” that undergoes a Photoinduced Structural Change allowing Temperature Sensing and White Emission

Mingu Han, Yu Tian, Zhao Yuan, Lei Zhu and Biwu Ma

Angew Chem Int Ed, 2014, 53, 10908
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201405293

Fluorescence lifetime Hong-Ou-Mandel sensing

Ashley Lyons, Vytautas Zickus, Raúl Álvarez-Mendoza, Danilo Triggiani, Vincenzo Tamma, Niclas Westerberg, Manlio Tassieri and Daniele Faccio

Nat Commun, 2023, 14
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43868-x

Fluorescent Probes for Lipid Rafts: From Model Membranes to Living Cells

Andrey S. Klymchenko and Rémy Kreder

Chemistry & Biology, 2014, 21, 97
DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2013.11.009

Raman Imaging and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy for Diagnosis of Cancer State and Metabolic Monitoring

Lucas Becker, Nicole Janssen, Shannon L. Layland, Thomas E. Mürdter, Anne T. Nies, Katja Schenke-Layland and Julia Marzi

Cancers, 2021, 13, 5682
DOI: 10.3390/cancers13225682

Ultrafast Excited-State Deactivation of the Bacterial Pigment Violacein

Ashley A. Beckstead, Yuyuan Zhang, Jonathan K. Hilmer, Heidi J. Smith, Emily Bermel, Christine M. Foreman and Bern Kohler

J. Phys. Chem. B, 2017, 121, 7855
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b05769

Measuring Intracellular Viscosity in Conditions of Hypergravity

Emma M. Woodcock, Paul Girvan, Julia Eckert, Ismael Lopez-Duarte, Markéta Kubánková, Jack J.W.A. van Loon, Nicholas J. Brooks and Marina K. Kuimova

Biophysical Journal, 2019, 116, 1984
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.03.038

Reconstruction by fluorescence imaging of the spatio-temporal evolution of the viscosity field in Hele-Shaw flows

P. Bunton, B. Dice, J. A. Pojman, A. De Wit and F. Brau

Physics of Fluids, 2014, 26
DOI: 10.1063/1.4901957

Regioisomeric BODIPY Benzodithiophene Dyads and Triads with Tunable Red Emission as Ratiometric Temperature and Viscosity Sensors

P. R. Aswathy, Sushil Sharma, Narendra Pratap Tripathi and Sanchita Sengupta

Chemistry A European J, 2019, 25, 14870
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201902952

D-π-A structure fluorophore: NIR emission, response to viscosity, detection cyanide and bioimaging of lipid droplets

Chuang Liu, Di Zhang, Sheng Ye, Tong Chen and Ruiyuan Liu

Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2022, 267, 120593
DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2021.120593

How to best estimate the viscosity of lipid bilayers

Vladimir Adrien, Gamal Rayan, Ksenia Astafyeva, Isabelle Broutin, Martin Picard, Patrick Fuchs, Wladimir Urbach and Nicolas Taulier

Biophysical Chemistry, 2022, 281, 106732
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2021.106732

A red-emitting fluorescent probe with large stokes shift for monitoring of viscosity and polarity and its application in bioimaging, distinguishing cancer cells

Xu Tang, Yaqin Li, Yunlong Han, Bo Hu, Zhi Zhu and Lei Liu

Journal of Molecular Structure, 2025, 1335, 141976
DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2025.141976

Fluorescence Enhancement by Calixarene Supramolecular Aggregate

Xin-Yue Hu, Yu-Ying Wang, Hua-Bin Li and Dong-Sheng Guo

Molecules, 2020, 25, 5912
DOI: 10.3390/molecules25245912

Phosphorescent Ir(III) Complexes for Biolabeling and Biosensing

Byung Hak Jhun, Dayoon Song, Soo Young Park and Youngmin You

Top Curr Chem (Z), 2022, 380
DOI: 10.1007/s41061-022-00389-3

Comparison of viscoelastic properties of cancer and normal thyroid cells on different stiffness substrates

Carmela Rianna and Manfred Radmacher

Eur Biophys J, 2017, 46, 309
DOI: 10.1007/s00249-016-1168-4

Monitoring the Formation of Polymer Nanoparticles with Fluorescent Molecular Rotors

Sascha Schmitt, Galit Renzer, Jennifer Benrath, Andreas Best, Shuai Jiang, Katharina Landfester, Hans-Jürgen Butt, Roberto Simonutti, Daniel Crespy and Kaloian Koynov

Macromolecules, 2022, 55, 7284
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c01132

Untying the Photophysics of Quinolinium‐Based Molecular Knots and Links

Kenji Caprice, Alexander Aster, Fabien B. L. Cougnon and Tatu Kumpulainen

Chemistry A European J, 2020, 26, 1576
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201904456

A Self-Calibrating Bipartite Viscosity Sensor for Mitochondria

Zhigang Yang, Yanxia He, Jae-Hong Lee, Nayoung Park, Myungkoo Suh, Weon-Sik Chae, Jianfang Cao, Xiaojun Peng, Hyosung Jung, Chulhun Kang and Jong Seung Kim

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 9181
DOI: 10.1021/ja403851p

Molecular Rotors Provide Insights into Microscopic Structural Changes During Protein Aggregation

Alexander J. Thompson, Therese W. Herling, Markéta Kubánková, Aurimas Vyšniauskas, Tuomas P. J. Knowles and Marina K. Kuimova

J. Phys. Chem. B, 2015, 119, 10170
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b05099

Evaluation of Endoplasmic Reticulum Targeting Isoquinol‐Based BODIPY Dyes and Their Properties as Molecular Rotors

Shawn Swavey, David Heidary, Emma Boyd and Jeremy Erb

Eur J Org Chem, 2023, 26
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.202300777

Imaging of Carbonic Anhydrase Level in Epilepsy with an Environment-Sensitive Fluorescent Probe

Fang Zhang, Fan Chen, Miao Zhong, Ruipeng Shen, Zhengjia Zhao, Haopai Wei, Baoxin Zhang and Jianguo Fang

Anal. Chem., 2023, 95, 14833
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c01368

Predicting nonradiative decay barrier of BODIPY dye in polar environment by applying ONIOM multiscale method

Domantas Narkevičius and Stepas Toliautas

physics, 2024, 64
DOI: 10.3952/physics.2024.64.1.2

Bacterial Vivisection: How Fluorescence-Based Imaging Techniques Shed a Light on the Inner Workings of Bacteria

Alexander Cambré and Abram Aertsen

Microbiol Mol Biol Rev, 2020, 84
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.00008-20

Cancer Cell Identification via Lysosomal Membrane Microviscosities Using a Green-Emitting BODIPY Molecular Rotor

Ru̅ta Bagdonaitė, Rokas Žvirblis, Jelena Dodonova-Vaitku̅nienė and Artu̅ras Polita

JACS Au, 2025, 5, 2004
DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.5c00253

Fine Tuning of Functional Features of the CuA Site by Loop-Directed Mutagenesis

Ulises A. Zitare, Jonathan Szuster, María C. Santalla, María E. Llases, Marcos N. Morgada, Alejandro J. Vila and Daniel H. Murgida

Inorg. Chem., 2019, 58, 2149
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b03244

A Tunable Palette of Molecular Rotors Allows Multicolor, Ratiometric Fluorescence Imaging and Direct Mapping of Mitochondrial Heterogeneity

Sufi O. Raja, Gandhi Sivaraman, Sayan Biswas, Gaurav Singh, Fouzia Kalim, Ponnuvel Kandaswamy and Akash Gulyani

ACS Appl. Bio Mater., 2021, 4, 4361
DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.1c00135

Liquid–liquid phase separation of type II diabetes-associated IAPP initiates hydrogelation and aggregation

Lior Pytowski, Chiu Fan Lee, Alex C. Foley, David J. Vaux and Létitia Jean

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2020, 117, 12050
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1916716117

A “Self‐Checking” pH/Viscosity‐Activatable NIR‐II Molecule for Real‐Time Evaluation of Photothermal Therapy Efficacy

Benhao Li, Hengke Liu, Yaling He, Mengyao Zhao, Chen Ge, Muhammad Rizwan Younis, Peng Huang, Xiaoyuan Chen and Jing Lin

Angew Chem Int Ed, 2022, 61
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202200025

A Threshold-Limited Fluorescence Probe for Viscosity

Zuhai Lei, Kai Xin, Shaobing Qiu, Liling Hou, Xiangming Meng and Youjun Yang

Front. Chem., 2019, 7
DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2019.00342

Red fluorescent BODIPY molecular rotor for high microviscosity environments

Karolina Maleckaitė, Jelena Dodonova-Vaitkūnienė, Rugilė Žilėnaitė, Sigitas Tumkevičius and Aurimas Vyšniauskas

Methods Appl. Fluoresc., 2022, 10, 034008
DOI: 10.1088/2050-6120/ac7943

The viscosity of atmospherically relevant organic particles

Jonathan P. Reid, Allan K. Bertram, David O. Topping, Alexander Laskin, Scot T. Martin, Markus D. Petters, Francis D. Pope and Grazia Rovelli

Nat Commun, 2018, 9
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03027-z

Monitoring Fluorescence Response of Amphiphilic Flapping Molecules in Compressed Monolayers at the Air–Water Interface

Waka Nakanishi, Shohei Saito, Naoki Sakamoto, Akihiro Kashiwagi, Shigehiro Yamaguchi, Hideki Sakai and Katsuhiko Ariga

Chemistry An Asian Journal, 2019, 14, 2869
DOI: 10.1002/asia.201900769

A genetically encoded fluorescent temperature sensor derived from the photoactive Orange Carotenoid Protein

Eugene G. Maksimov, Igor A. Yaroshevich, Georgy V. Tsoraev, Nikolai N. Sluchanko, Ekaterina A. Slutskaya, Olga G. Shamborant, Tatiana V. Bobik, Thomas Friedrich and Alexey V. Stepanov

Sci Rep, 2019, 9
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-45421-7

Molecular rheology of neuronal membranes explored using a molecular rotor: Implications for receptor function

Sreetama Pal, Hirak Chakraborty, Suman Bandari, Gokhan Yahioglu, Klaus Suhling and Amitabha Chattopadhyay

Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, 2016, 196, 69
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2016.02.004

A fluoran-based viscosity probe with high-performance for lysosome-targeted fluorescence imaging

Defang Han, Jundan Yi, Chang Liu, Lijuan Liang, Kun Huang, Linhai Jing and Dabin Qin

Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2020, 238, 118405
DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2020.118405

Spectroscopic methods for assessing the molecular origins of macroscopic solution properties of highly concentrated liquid protein solutions

Jacob Blaffert, Haleh Hashemi Haeri, Michaela Blech, Dariush Hinderberger and Patrick Garidel

Analytical Biochemistry, 2018, 561-562, 70
DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2018.09.013

Carbazole-functionalized dipicolinato LnIII complexes show two-photon excitation and viscosity-sensitive metal-centered emission

Jorge H.S.K. Monteiro, Natalie R. Fetto, Matthew J. Tucker, Fernando A. Sigoli and Ana de Bettencourt-Dias

Journal of Luminescence, 2022, 245, 118768
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlumin.2022.118768

Aggregation induced emission (AIE) active carbazole styryl fluorescent molecular rotor as viscosity sensor

Haribhau S. Kumbhar, Saurabh S. Deshpande and Ganapati S. Shankarling

ChemistrySelect, 2016, 1, 2058
DOI: 10.1002/slct.201600001

Sensing Temperature in Vitro and in Cells Using a BODIPY Molecular Probe

Meredith M. Ogle, Ashleigh D. Smith McWilliams, Matthew J. Ware, Steven A. Curley, Stuart J. Corr and Angel A. Martí

J. Phys. Chem. B, 2019, 123, 7282
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b04384

Linker length affects photostability of protein-targeted sensor of cellular microviscosity

Markéta Kubánková, Joseph E Chambers, Roland G Huber, Peter J Bond, Stefan J Marciniak and Marina K Kuimova

Methods Appl. Fluoresc., 2019, 7, 044004
DOI: 10.1088/2050-6120/ab481f

A novel mitochondria-targeted near-infrared (NIR) probe for detection of viscosity changes in living cell, zebra fishes and living mice

Rui Guo, Yanyan Ma, Yonghe Tang, Peng Xie, Qiuan Wang and Weiying Lin

Talanta, 2019, 204, 868
DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2019.06.050