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A sodium alginate-based nano-pesticide delivery system for enhanced in vitro photostability and insecticidal efficacy of phloxine B
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When AI meets AIE: Machine learning in design function-oriented AIEgens for antibacterial ability
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Violet-Blue Emitters Featuring Aggregation-Enhanced Emission Characteristics for Nondoped OLEDs with CIEy Smaller than 0.046
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A novel drug susceptibility testing AIEgen with spatiotemporal resolved progress-reporting characteristic for therapy of drug-resistant tumor
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Promising Applications of AIEgens in Animal Models
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Mitochondria-targeting indolizino[3,2-c]quinolines as novel class of photosensitizers for photodynamic anticancer activity
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Design of a Metallacycle‐Based Supramolecular Photosensitizer for In Vivo Image‐Guided Photodynamic Inactivation of Bacteria
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Harnessing the Excited States of 5-(5-Phenylthiophen-2-yl)-6-Azauridine as a Three-Pronged Agent for Skin Cancer Therapy: Photodynamic Action, Cell Imaging, and Cancer Cell Inhibition
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NIR‐II Light Activated Photosensitizer with Aggregation‐Induced Emission for Precise and Efficient Two‐Photon Photodynamic Cancer Cell Ablation
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Re-recognizing fluorescence quenching Units: Improve abnormally the luminescent efficiency of AIEgens for fluorescence Sensing, organelle targeted imaging and photodynamic therapy
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An efficient photothermal conversion material based on D‐A type luminophore for solar‐driven desalination
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Novel high-quantum-yield polydiacetylene conjugated AIE micelles for amplified fluorescence signaling and photodynamic therapy
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Fabrication of pH-Responsive Nanoparticles with an AIE Feature for Imaging Intracellular Drug Delivery
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Donor–Acceptor Modulating of Ionic AIE Photosensitizers for Enhanced ROS Generation and NIR‐II Emission
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Self-assembled nanostructured photosensitizer with aggregation-induced emission for enhanced photodynamic anticancer therapy
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Modulation of Donor in Purely Organic Triplet Harvesting AIE‐TADF Photosensitizer for Image‐guided Photodynamic Therapy
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Enhancing Spin-Orbit coupling in covalent organic polymers to facilitate intersystem crossing for uranium (VI) photoreduction
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Emerging Strategies in Enhancing Singlet Oxygen Generation of Nano-Photosensitizers Toward Advanced Phototherapy
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Synthesis of AIE-Active Materials with Their Applications for Antibacterial Activity, Specific Imaging of Mitochondrion and Image-Guided Photodynamic Therapy
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J- and H-aggregates of heavy-atom-free Aza-BODIPY dyes with high 1O2 generation efficiency and photodynamic therapy potential
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Self-cleaning wearable masks for respiratory infectious pathogen inactivation by type I and type II AIE photosensitizer
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Structure and Properties Regulation of Organic Photosensitizers and Application in Photodiagnosis and Treatment★
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