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A viologen-based Cd(ii) coordination polymer as a multifunctional platform for photochromism, chemochromism and a broad range of fluorescence pH sensing

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Viologen-Based Photochromic Metal–Organic Framework for Antibiotics Detection in Water

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Structures and photochromic behavior of viologen-based compounds: Insights from Mn(II) and Cd(II) complexes

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Viologen-Integrated MOF Thin Films: Reversible Electrochromic Behavior at Low Voltage

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Selective Photochromic Response to Low-Dose X-ray Radiation Detection in One-Dimensional Cadmium-Viologen Complexes

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Fluorescence On–Off Response of Hydrogen-Bonded Viologen-Polyoxometalate Supramolecular Structure for the Determination of Ag+ in Beverages and Daily Necessities

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Multi-Stimuli-Responsive Chromic Behaviors of an All–in–One Viologen-Based Cd(II) Complex

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Efficiently regulating the electrochromic behavior of naphthalene-diimide-based zirconium-organic frameworks through linker installation

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Photo Responsive Electron and Proton Conductivity within a Hydrogen‐Bonded Organic Framework

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Cobalt(II) and Cadmium(II) Metal–Organic Framework with Benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylate and Viologen Guest: Stimuli-Responsive Photochromism, Volatile Amine Detection, and Hydrogen Generation

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NH2–BDC-Pillared Ho-MOFs with/without Viologen Encapsulation: Fluorescence Sensing, Multistimulus Response, and PVDF Composite Film

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A Bifunctional Three-Dimensional Zn(II) Metal–Organic Framework with Strong Luminescence and Adsorption Cr(VI) Properties

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All-in-one electrochromic device from viologen-based Cu-MOF and photocurable eutectogel

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Chiral metal-organic frameworks and their composites as stationary phases for liquid chromatography chiral separation: A minireview

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A novel Cd(II) coordination polymer: Dual photochromism, photo-controlled luminescence, and application in anti-counterfeiting

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Syntheses and performance study of three POM-viologen compounds with photo- and electric-stimulation response

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A Series of 9-Anthracene Carboxylic Acid-Based Lanthanide Binuclear Complexes: Construction, Magnetism, Photoluminescence, and Photochromism

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Photochromic Metal‐Organic Frameworks With White‐Light Emission, and Multicolor Afterglow for Advanced Anti‐Counterfeiting and Encryption

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Dual Photo-/Electrochromic Pyromellitic Diimide-Based Coordination Polymer

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Quasi-metallic bandgap tunability at low static pressures and quintuple chromism by electron transfer in a viologen-derivative iodide

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Two luminescent phosphonate metal-organic framework as highly efficient and sensitive sensors for the detections of tetracycline antibiotic in aqueous system

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A Viologen-Based MOF: Photoresponsive Discoloration Property and Selective Fluorescence Detection of Nitrofurans and Lysine

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Photochromic Metal‐Organic Frameworks With White‐Light Emission, and Multicolor Afterglow for Advanced Anti‐Counterfeiting and Encryption

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