Real‐Time and High‐Resolution Bioimaging with Bright Aggregation‐Induced Emission Dots in Short‐Wave Infrared Region

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Ionic Aggregation‐Induced Emission: Bulky Hydrophobic Counterions Light Up Dyes in Polymeric Nanoparticles

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Ultra-homogeneous NIR-II fluorescent self-assembled nanoprobe with AIE properties for photothermal therapy of prostate cancer

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Pyrrolopyrrole aza-BODIPY-based NIR-II fluorophores for in vivo dynamic vascular dysfunction visualization of vascular-targeted photodynamic therapy

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Aggregation-induced emission: An emerging concept in brain science

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Computing imaging in shortwave infrared bands enabled by MoTe 2 /Si 2D ‐ 3D heterojunction‐based photodiode

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Real‐time and noninvasive tracking of injectable hydrogel degradation using functionalized AIE nanoparticles

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In vivo near-infrared fluorescent optical imaging for CNS drug discovery

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Biomimetic Glucan Particles with Aggregation-Induced Emission Characteristics for Noninvasive Monitoring of Transplant Immune Response

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A Nanotheranostic System Combining Lysosomal Cell Death and Nuclear Apoptosis Functions for Synergistic Cancer Therapy and Addressing Drug Resistance

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Refashioning benzothiadiazole dye as an activatable nanoprobe for biomarker detection with NIR-II fluorescence/optoacoustic imaging

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A Class of Biocompatible Dye–Protein Complex Optical Nanoprobes

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A targeted biocompatible organic nanoprobe for photoacoustic and near-infrared-II fluorescence imaging in living mice

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In Vivo 3‐Photon Fluorescence Imaging of Mouse Subcortical Vasculature Labeled by AIEgen Before and After Craniotomy

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Efficient red luminogen with aggregation-induced emission for in vivo three-photon brain vascular imaging

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Visible‐ near infrared ‐II skull optical clearing window for in vivo cortical vasculature imaging and targeted manipulation

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Polarity-active NIR probes with strong two-photon absorption and ultrahigh binding affinity of insulin amyloid fibrils

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Protein-Enhanced NIR-IIb Emission of Indocyanine Green for Functional Bioimaging

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Fluorescent Nanoparticles for the Guided Surgery of Ovarian Peritoneal Carcinomatosis

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Unlocking the power of optical imaging in the second biological window: Structuring near‐infrared II materials from organic molecules to nanoparticles

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Aggregation-induced emission active luminescent polymeric nanofibers: From design, synthesis, fluorescent mechanism to applications

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Diagnostics and theranostics of central nervous system diseases based on aggregation-induced emission luminogens

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Luminescent push-pull triphenylamine-based molecules end-capped with various electron-withdrawing groups: Synthesis and properties

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J-aggregates of Br- and piperazine-modified cyanine dye with the assistance of amphiphilic polypeptides for efficient NIR-IIa phototheranostics under 1064 nm irradiation

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Recent progress of second near-infrared (NIR-II) fluorescence microscopy in bioimaging

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Short-wave infrared emitted/excited fluorescence from carbon dots and preliminary applications in bioimaging

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An Unsymmetrical Squaraine‐Based Activatable Probe for Imaging Lymphatic Metastasis by Responding to Tumor Hypoxia with MSOT and Aggregation‐Enhanced Fluorescent Imaging

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Organic NIR‐II Nanofluorophore with Ultrahigh Quantum Yield for Vessels Imaging and Fluorescence Image‐Guided Surgery

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Aggregation-induced emission: recent applications in infectious diseases

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Fluorescent nanoparticles with ultralow chromophore loading for long-term tumor-targeted imaging

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Multifunctional Nanotheranostic Agent for NIR‐II Imaging‐Guided Synergetic Photothermal/Photodynamic Therapy

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Activatable luminescent probes for imaging brain diseases

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Structural and Functional NIR-II Fluorescence Bioimaging in Urinary System via Clinically Approved Dye Methylene Blue

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Lymph Node Mapping for Tumor Micrometastasis

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A curcumin-based AIEE-active fluorescent probe for Cu 2+ detection in aqueous solution

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A Rapidly Synthesized, Ultrasmall Silver Nanocluster for Near-Infrared-II Imaging and Metabolic Studies

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Specific lipid droplet imaging of atherosclerotic plaques and fatty liver using an imidazole-based fluorescence probe

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Optical molecular imaging and theranostics in neurological diseases based on aggregation-induced emission luminogens

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Imidazole decorated dicyanomethylene-4H-pyran skeletons with aggregation induced emission effect and applications for sensing viscosity

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Boosting the AIEgen-based photo-theranostic platform by balancing radiative decay and non-radiative decay

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Diffuse optical localization imaging for noninvasive deep brain microangiography in the NIR-II window

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Rational Modulation Strategies to Improve Bioimaging Applications for Organic NIR‐II Fluorophores

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Small Molecule NIR‐II Dyes for Switchable Photoluminescence via Host –Guest Complexation and Supramolecular Assembly with Carbon Dots

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Extracellular vesicles as a novel photosensitive drug delivery system for enhanced photodynamic therapy

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Natural-based Hydrogels: A Journey from Simple to Smart Networks for Medical Examination

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Theranostic Colloidal Nanoparticles of Pyrrolopyrrole Cyanine Derivatives for Simultaneous Near-Infrared Fluorescence Cancer Imaging and Photothermal Therapy

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Remarkable solid-state fluorescence change from the visible to the near-infrared region based on the protonation/deprotonation of an AIEgen

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Turning on Light Emission of a Dark Pro‐Aggregation‐Induced Emission Luminogen in Aqueous Media Through Reductase‐Modulated Derotation

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Noninvasive In Vivo Imaging and Monitoring of 3D-Printed Polycaprolactone Scaffolds Labeled with an NIR Region II Fluorescent Dye

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First aggregation-induced emission-active probe for species-specific detection of β-galactosidase

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Surfactant-chaperoned donor–acceptor–donor NIR-II dye strategy efficiently circumvents intermolecular aggregation to afford enhanced bioimaging contrast

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Degradable pH-responsive NIR-II imaging probes based on a polymer-lanthanide composite for chemotherapy

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High contrast 3-D optical bioimaging using molecular and nanoprobes optically responsive to IR light

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Robust organic nanoparticles for noninvasive long-term fluorescence imaging

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A dual-function probe with aggregation-induced emission feature for Cu 2+ detection and chemodynamic therapy

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Surfing the limits of cyanine photocages one step at a time

Janeková, H., Fisher, S. B., Šolomek, T., & Štacko, P. (2024) · Chemical Science · doi:10.1039/d4sc07165d · Cited by 20

Orthogonal Near-Infrared-II Imaging Enables Spatially Distinguishing Tissues Based on Lanthanide-Doped Nanoprobes

Jia, Q., Ma, L., Zhai, X., Fu, W., Liu, Y. L., Liao, X., & Zhou, J. (2020) · Analytical Chemistry · doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.0c03383 · Cited by 19

Organic Mitoprobes based on Fluorogens with Aggregation‐Induced Emission

Cai, X., Hu, F., Feng, G., Kwok, R. T. K., Liu, B., & Tang, B. Z. (2018) · Israel Journal of Chemistry · doi:10.1002/ijch.201800031 · Cited by 19

Machine Learning-Assisted Short-Wave InfraRed (SWIR) Techniques for Biomedical Applications: Towards Personalized Medicine

Salimi, M., Roshanfar, M., Tabatabaei, N., & Mosadegh, B. (2023) · Journal of Personalized Medicine · doi:10.3390/jpm14010033 · Cited by 17

NIR-II Excitation and NIR-I Emission Based Two-photon Fluorescence Lifetime Microscopic Imaging Using Aggregation-induced Emission Dots

Liu, W., Zhang, Y., Qi, J., Qian, J., & Tang, B. Z. (2021) · Chemical Research in Chinese Universities · doi:10.1007/s40242-021-0405-2 · Cited by 18

Designing highly emissive over-1000 nm near-infrared fluorescent dye-loaded polystyrene-based nanoparticles for in vivo deep imaging

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Asymmetric small organic molecule-based NIR-II fluorophores for high performance tumor phototheranostics

Wang, Q., Niu, X., Yang, L., Liu, J., Wang, J., Xu, X., Tang, W., Huang, W., & Fan, Q. (2021) · Materials Chemistry Frontiers · doi:10.1039/d1qm00472g · Cited by 18

Red Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence in Dibenzopyridoquinoxaline-Based Nanoaggregates

Das, S., Kundu, S., Sk, B., Sarkar, M., & Patra, A. (2021) · Organic Materials · doi:10.1055/a-1679-9558 · Cited by 18

Polarity-activated super-resolution imaging probe for the formation and morphology of amyloid fibrils

Lv, Z., Li, L., Man, Z., Xu, Z., Cui, H., Zhan, R., He, Q., Zheng, L., & Fu, H. (2020) · Nano Research · doi:10.1007/s12274-020-2899-1 · Cited by 17

Metal-free organic luminophores with ultrastrong dipole moment exhibiting force-induced near-infrared emission (>800 nm) turn-on

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AIE-Active and Thermoresponsive Alternating Polyurethanes of Bile Acid and PEG for Cell Imaging

Chen, K.-F., Liu, S., Gao, M., Wang, J., Wang, Y., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Ren, L., Zhang, H., Jia, Y., et al. (2019) · ACS Applied Polymer Materials · doi:10.1021/acsapm.9b00676 · Cited by 17

Preclinical techniques to investigate exercise training in vascular pathophysiology

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Thiolate Etching Route for the Ripening of Uniform Ag2Te Quantum Dots Emitting in the Second Near-Infrared Window: Implication for Noninvasive In Vivo Imaging

Chen, S., Tang, T., Huang, B., Liu, F., Cui, R., Zhang, M., & Sun, T. (2022) · ACS Applied Nano Materials · doi:10.1021/acsanm.1c04005 · Cited by 17

Organic small-molecule NIR-II fluorophores for tumor phototheranostics

Xiang, D., Wang, Z., Zheng, H., Tang, Y., & Li, Q. (2026) · Light: Science & Applications · doi:10.1038/s41377-026-02212-w · Cited by 22

NIR-II AIEgens with Photodynamic Effect for Advanced Theranostics

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Organic nanoparticles with tunable size and rigidity by hyperbranching and cross-linking using microemulsion ATRP

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“AIE+ESIPT” bis Schiff-base ligands with multicolor emission and their corresponding Eu(III) complexes: Synthesis and properties research

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Synthesis and photophysical properties of donor-acceptor flavone-based derivatives with good aggregation-induced emission characteristics

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Near‐Infrared Fluorophores for Thrombosis Diagnosis and Therapy

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Recent Progress in Nanomedicine for Melanoma Theranostics With Emphasis on Combination Therapy

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Second near-infrared (NIR-II) imaging: a novel diagnostic technique for brain diseases

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Advanced NIR ratiometric probes for intravital biomedical imaging

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Design, Synthesis, and Biomedical Application of Multifunctional Fluorescent Polymer Nanomaterials

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A fluorophore with dithienopyrrole donor for beyond 1300 nm NIR-II fluorescence/photoacoustic dual-model imaging and photothermal therapy

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A versatile synthetic approach to tunable dual-emissive Pdots with very small-size based on amphiphilic block copolymers for cell imaging

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Optimizing Comprehensive Performance of Aggregation‐Induced Emission Nanoparticles through Molecular Packing Modulation for Multimodal Image‐Guided Synergistic Phototherapy

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Organic Theranostic Nanoplatform with Enhanced Fluorescence and Singlet Oxygen Quantum Yield for Tumor-Targeting Image-Guided Photodynamic/Photothermal Synergistic Therapy

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Mapping Organizational Changes of Fiber‐Like Structures in Disease Progression by Multiparametric, Quantitative Imaging

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Photoluminescence Anisotropy in Eutectic Crystals of Polynuclear Lanthanide Complexes and Silver Clusters

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NIR-II organic small molecule probe for labeling lymph nodes and guiding tumor imaging

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Bio‐orthogonal AIE Dots Based on Polyyne‐Bridged Red‐emissive AIEgen for Tumor Metabolic Labeling and Targeted Imaging

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NIR-II semiconducting polymers for in vivo high-resolution imaging and theranostics

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NIR-II emissive nanoprobe for non-invasive monitoring of liver fibrosis and in-situ ratiometric visualization of NO gas-based therapy process

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Probes for noninvasive biological visualization and biosensing of cancer cells

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Advanced NIR-II Fluorescence Imaging Technology for Precise Evaluation of Nanomedicine Delivery in Cancer Therapy

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Enhanced Singlet Oxygen Generation in Aggregates of Naphthalene-Fused BODIPY and Its Application in Photodynamic Therapy

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Synthesis and Luminescence Properties of Diamine Monomers and Polyamides with Highly Twisted N,N‐Bis(dialkylamino)arene AIE Luminogens

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Multimodal Imaging‐Guided Photothermal Immunotherapy Based on a Versatile NIR‐II Aggregation‐Induced Emission Luminogen

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Lighting up Self-Quenching Nanoaggregates with Protein Corona for Simultaneous Intraoperative Imaging and Photothermal Theranostics of Metastatic Cancer

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Next-generation in vivo optical imaging with short-wave infrared quantum dots

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First experience imaging short-wave infrared fluorescence in a large animal: indocyanine green angiography of a pig brain

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Highly stable and bright AIE dots for NIR-II deciphering of living rats

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SWIR Fluorescence and Monte Carlo Modeling of Tissues for Medical Applications

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Aggregation-Induced Emission Luminogen with Near-Infrared-II Excitation and Near-Infrared-I Emission for Ultradeep Intravital Two-Photon Microscopy

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