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Organic Afterglow Emitters for Visual Observation of Hydrogel Formation in Biomedical Systems

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Discerning the internal spatial heavy-atom effect on the organic phosphorescence of 9-phenylcarbazole by transient absorption spectroscopy

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Challenges in “probing spectroscopic probes” for noninvasive simultaneous disease diagnosis

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Achieving purely organic room temperature phosphorescence in aqueous solution

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Room-temperature phosphorescence and aggregation behavior in chiral heavy-atom-free organic molecules

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Effect of double bond on electronic and optical properties of coelenteramide: A time-dependent density functional theory investigation

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Recent advances in organic phosphorescent materials for bioimaging

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Regulating Triplet Excitons of Organic Luminophores for Promoted Bioimaging

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Exploring excited state dynamics in benzocarbazole derivatives through transient absorption spectroscopy

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Synthesis and Assessment of Antimicrobial Composites of Ag Nanoparticles or AgNO3 and Egg Shell Membranes

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A co-doping strategy to fabricate ultralong organic room temperature phosphorescence (ORTP) materials: Designing, preparation and advanced applications

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Twisted Benzothieno-Fused BOPHY Dyes as Triplet Photosensitizers with Long-Lived Triplet Excited States

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Non-adiabatic conformation distortion charge transfer enables dual emission of thermally activated delayed fluorescence and room temperature phosphorescence

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Twisting intramolecular charge transfer promotes room temperature phosphorescence of fluorescein selenides in aqueous solutions

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Host-guest doping induced excited state energy transfer for efficient room temperature phosphorescence emission

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Mechanics of poly-arginine adsorption onto cell membrane by GM1 and their cluster forming: Coarse-grained molecular dynamics study

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