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Single-Molecular Near-Infrared-II Theranostic Systems: Ultrastable Aggregation-Induced Emission Nanoparticles for Long-Term Tracing and Efficient Photothermal Therapy

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In Situ Monitoring Apoptosis Process by a Self-Reporting Photosensitizer

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Emissive Platinum(II) Cages with Reverse Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer for Multiple Sensing

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Realizing Record‐High Electroluminescence Efficiency of 31.5 % for Red Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Molecules

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Cationization-Enhanced Type I and Type II ROS Generation for Photodynamic Treatment of Drug-Resistant Bacteria

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Boosting Cancer Therapy with Organelle-Targeted Nanomaterials

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Achieving 21% External Quantum Efficiency for Nondoped Solution‐Processed Sky‐Blue Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence OLEDs by Means of Multi‐(Donor/Acceptor) Emitter with Through‐Space/‐Bond Charge Transfer

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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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Spontaneous Amino-yne Click Polymerization: A Powerful Tool toward Regio- and Stereospecific Poly(β-aminoacrylate)s

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Facile Synthesis of Red/NIR AIE Luminogens with Simple Structures, Bright Emissions, and High Photostabilities, and Their Applications for Specific Imaging of Lipid Droplets and Image‐Guided Photodynamic Therapy

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Dual ATP and pH responsive ZIF-90 nanosystem with favorable biocompatibility and facile post-modification improves therapeutic outcomes of triple negative breast cancer in vivo

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Recent advances of donor-acceptor type carbazole-based molecules for light emitting applications

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AIE luminogens as fluorescent bioprobes

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Towards Efficient Spectral Converters through Materials Design for Luminescent Solar Devices

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Aggregation induced phosphorescence of metal complexes: From principles to applications

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Conjugated polymers – Problems and promises

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Manipulation of Molecular Aggregation States to Realize Polymorphism, AIE, MCL, and TADF in a Single Molecule

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A Conjugated Polymeric Supramolecular Network with Aggregation‐Induced Emission Enhancement: An Efficient Light‐Harvesting System with an Ultrahigh Antenna Effect

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Self-reporting coatings for autonomous detection of coating damage and metal corrosion: A review

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Aggregation-Induced Emission and Light-Harvesting Function of Tetraphenylethene-Based Tetracationic Dicyclophane

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Photoresponsive Propeller‐like Chiral AIE Copper(I) Clusters

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Efficient NIR-II Type-I AIE Photosensitizer for Mitochondria-Targeted Photodynamic Therapy through Synergistic Apoptosis–Ferroptosis

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Steric Modulation of Spiro Structure for Highly Efficient Multiple Resonance Emitters

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Ultralong Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence from Amorphous Polymer Poly(Styrene Sulfonic Acid) in Air in the Dry Solid State

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Synthesis of distorted nanographenes containing seven- and eight-membered carbocycles

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Activatable Fluorescence Probes for “Turn-On” and Ratiometric Biosensing and Bioimaging: From NIR-I to NIR-II

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Emission mechanism understanding and tunable persistent room temperature phosphorescence of amorphous nonaromatic polymers

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Ultra-strong long-chain polyamide elastomers with programmable supramolecular interactions and oriented crystalline microstructures

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Molecular Motion and Nonradiative Decay: Towards Efficient Photothermal and Photoacoustic Systems

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Efficient Near-Infrared Photosensitizer with Aggregation-Induced Emission for Imaging-Guided Photodynamic Therapy in Multiple Xenograft Tumor Models

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High‐Performance Quinoline‐Malononitrile Core as a Building Block for the Diversity‐Oriented Synthesis of AIEgens

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AIE-active theranostic system: selective staining and killing of cancer cells

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Antitumor Activity of a Unique Polymer That Incorporates a Fluorescent Self-Assembled Metallacycle

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Aggregation‐Induced Emission‐Active Gels: Fabrications, Functions, and Applications

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Time‐Dependent Photodynamic Therapy for Multiple Targets: A Highly Efficient AIE‐Active Photosensitizer for Selective Bacterial Elimination and Cancer Cell Ablation

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Improving Image‐Guided Surgical and Immunological Tumor Treatment Efficacy by Photothermal and Photodynamic Therapies Based on a Multifunctional NIR AIEgen

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Fluorescent Imaging of Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species Associated with Pathophysiological Processes

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A General Strategy to Control Viscosity Sensitivity of Molecular Rotor‐Based Fluorophores

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Boosting Non‐Radiative Decay to Do Useful Work: Development of a Multi‐Modality Theranostic System from an AIEgen

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Thiolated Gold Nanoclusters for Light Energy Conversion

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How to Manipulate Through-Space Conjugation and Clusteroluminescence of Simple AIEgens with Isolated Phenyl Rings

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Deciphering the working mechanism of aggregation-induced emission of tetraphenylethylene derivatives by ultrafast spectroscopy

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Sequentially amplified circularly polarized ultraviolet luminescence for enantioselective photopolymerization

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Dual-emission MOF⊃dye sensor for ratiometric fluorescence recognition of RDX and detection of a broad class of nitro-compounds

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A Sensitive and Reliable Organic Fluorescent Nanothermometer for Noninvasive Temperature Sensing

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Bioorthogonal Turn‐On Probe Based on Aggregation‐Induced Emission Characteristics for Cancer Cell Imaging and Ablation

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In Situ Localization of Enzyme Activity in Live Cells by a Molecular Probe Releasing a Precipitating Fluorochrome

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Three polymorphs of one luminogen: how the molecular packing affects the RTP and AIE properties?

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Metal–Organic Gels from Silver Nanoclusters with Aggregation‐Induced Emission and Fluorescence‐to‐Phosphorescence Switching

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Heartbeat-Sensing Mechanoluminescent Device Based on a Quantitative Relationship between Pressure and Emissive Intensity

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A clustering-triggered emission strategy for tunable multicolor persistent phosphorescence

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Circularly polarized luminescence from AIEgens

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AIEgens for dark through-bond energy transfer: design, synthesis, theoretical study and application in ratiometric Hg 2+ sensing

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A Multifunctional Blue‐Emitting Material Designed via Tuning Distribution of Hybridized Excited‐State for High‐Performance Blue and Host‐Sensitized OLEDs

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Activatable Fluorescent Nanoprobe with Aggregation‐Induced Emission Characteristics for Selective In Vivo Imaging of Elevated Peroxynitrite Generation

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Iodine Controlled Pillar[5]arene-Based Multiresponsive Supramolecular Polymer for Fluorescence Detection of Cyanide, Mercury, and Cysteine

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Dramatic Differences in Aggregation-Induced Emission and Supramolecular Polymerizability of Tetraphenylethene-Based Stereoisomers

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Multi-Stimuli-Responsive Fluorescence Switching from a Pyridine-Functionalized Tetraphenylethene AIEgen

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A Light‐Up Probe with Aggregation‐Induced Emission for Real‐Time Bio‐orthogonal Tumor Labeling and Image‐Guided Photodynamic Therapy

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Multistimuli Response and Polymorphism of a Novel Tetraphenylethylene Derivative

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