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Photoswitchable Aie Photosensitizer for Reversible Control of Singlet Oxygen Generation in Imaging-Guided Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy

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Photoisomerization, assembling and fluorescence photoswitching behaviors of a water-soluble stiff-stilbene with cucurbit[7]uril

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Synthesis and photochromism of dithienylethene-based isocyanide and gold (I) complexes with various alkyl chains

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Efficient blue light-responsed dithienylethenes with exceptional photochromic performance

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A novel D-π-A molecule as ICT type fluorescent probe for endogenous hypochlorite imaging in living cells and zebrafishes

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