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Application of Octacalcium Phosphate with an Innovative Household-scale Defluoridator Prototype and Behavioral Determinants of its Adoption in Rural Communities of the East African Rift Valley

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High-contrast colourimetric probes for fluoride and trace water based on tautomerization of naphthalimide and application in fingerprint imaging

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All Silica Micro-Fluidic Flow Injection Sensor System for Colorimetric Chemical Sensing

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Higher‐Order Cycloaddition Reactions for the Construction of Polycyclic Aromatic and Polycyclic Heteroaromatic Compounds

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Hybrid Macrocycles for Selective Binding and Sensing of Fluoride in Aqueous Solution

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Förster Resonance Energy-Transfer-Based Ratiometric Fluorescent Indicator for Quantifying Fluoride Ion in Water and Toothpaste

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A Colorimetric Chemosensor Based on a Nozoe Azulene That Detects Fluoride in Aqueous/Alcoholic Media

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Near-Infrared Turn-On Fluorescent Probe for Aqueous Fluoride Ion Detection and Cell Imaging

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A nanofibrous membrane fluorescent sensor for fluoride ions prepared by electrospinning and host-guest interaction

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Smartphone as a simple device for visual and on-site detection of fluoride in groundwater

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Azulene Functionalization by Iron-Mediated Addition to a Cyclohexadiene Scaffold

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Highly Selective and Scalable Molecular Fluoride Sensor for Naked-Eye Detection

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Recent Advances in the Functionalization of Azulene Through Pd‐Catalyzed Cross‐Coupling Reactions

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A fluorescein-based AND-logic FPSi probe for the simultaneous detection of Hg2+ and F−

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Azulene – Thiophene – Cyanoacrylic acid dyes with donor-π-acceptor structures. Synthesis, characterisation and evaluation in dye-sensitized solar cells

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