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Organic cocrystals in the NIR window: functional design, controlled synthesis and frontier applications

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Organic Photothermal Cocrystals: Rational Design, Controlled Synthesis, and Advanced Application

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Advanced Science, 2023, 10
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Pyrene-based cocrystals for regulation of extensive emission across visible to near-infrared II range

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Photothermal conversion mechanism of the dibenzotetrathiafulvalene-tetracyanobenzene cocrystal based on the transitions between the ground and excited states

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NIR (II) photothermal imaging and amplifying photothermal effect through magnetic field in organic cocrystals

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Cocrystal Engineering of Organic Semiconductors for Photovoltaic Applications: Modeling Excited-State Properties of a Charge Transfer Cocrystal of a Dicarbazole Donor and a Fluoranil Acceptor

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Turning on the Heat by Cocrystal Engineering: The Rise of Organic Charge Transfer Photothermal Cocrystals as an Emerging Therapeutic Frontier in Biomedical Application

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Recent Advances of Organic Cocrystals in Emerging Cutting‐Edge Properties and Applications

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Tailoring Molecular Architecture: Charge-transfer Cocrystals Based on TCNQ in Advanced Electrical, Magnetic, and Photo-thermal Applications

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Influence of Internal Molecular Motions in the Photothermal Conversion Effect of Charge-Transfer Cocrystals

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Ternary Inclusion Co‐Crystals for Efficient Photothermal Conversion and Solar‐Driven Water Evaporation

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Two-Dimensional Optical Waveguides at Telecom Wavelengths Based on Organic Single-Crystal Microsheets of a Charge Transfer Complex

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“Bacterial Suicide”: An Aminal-Linked Covalent Organic Polymer with Infection-Microenvironment-Enhanced Synergistic Photothermal and Enzymatic Activities for Wound Therapy

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Fine‐Tuning the Motion of Tetrafluoro‐1,4‐Benzoquinone within Charge‐Transfer Cocrystals Through Variation of the Donor: An Entropic and Enthalpic Point of View

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DFT-based evaluation of fluorescence traits in anthracene-chalcone-pyridine solid cocrystal: Modulation via charge-transfer strategies

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Synergistic anti-biofilm strategy based on charge-transfer nano-cocrystals of carbazole and F4TCNQ

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