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The Pursuit of Shortwave Infrared-Emitting Nanoparticles with Bright Fluorescence through Molecular Design and Excited-State Engineering of Molecular Aggregates

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Mn-Loaded apolactoferrin dots for in vivo MRI and NIR-II cancer imaging

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A thiopyrylium salt for PET/NIR‐II tumor imaging and image‐guided surgery

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Biocompatible and Water-Soluble Shortwave-Infrared (SWIR)-Emitting Cyanine-Based Fluorescent Probes for In Vivo Multiplexed Molecular Imaging

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Extending optical chemical tools and technologies to mice by shifting to the shortwave infrared region

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Bright, Modular, and Switchable Near-Infrared II Emission from Compact Tetrathiafulvalene-Based Diradicaloid Complexes

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Aggregation‐Mediated Photoacoustic/NIR‐II and Photodynamic Properties of pH‐Reversible Thiopyrylium Agents: A Computational and Experimental Approach

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Julolidinyl aza-BODIPYs as NIR-II fluorophores for the bioimaging of nanocarriers

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Enhancing the fluorescence emission of the NIR-II fluorophores: Strategies, mechanisms, challenges, and opportunities

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Near‐Infrared‐II Semiconducting Polymer Dots for Deep‐tissue Fluorescence Imaging

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Near-infrared II cyanine fluorophores with large stokes shift engineered by regulating respective absorption and emission

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A novel small-molecule near-infrared II fluorescence probe for orthotopic osteosarcoma imaging

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Indocyanine polymethine fluorophores with extended π-conjugation emitting beyond 1,200 nm for enhanced NIR-II imaging

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Construction of Targeting-Peptide-Based Imaging Reagents and Their Application in Bioimaging

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Building multipurpose nano-toolkit by rationally decorating NIR-II fluorophore to meet the needs of tumor diagnosis and treatment

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NIR-II fluorescence/photoacoustic imaging of ovarian cancer and peritoneal metastasis

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Development of a Highly Efficient NIR-II Phototherapeutic Agent for Fluorescence Imaging-Guided Synergistic PTT/PDT/Chemotherapy of Colorectal Cancer

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Theranostic Gold Nanoclusters for NIR-II Imaging and Photodynamic Therapy

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Shortwave Infrared Absorptive and Emissive Pentamethine-Bridged Indolizine Cyanine Dyes

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Advances on fluorescence bioimaging and photo-mediated therapy of NIR-II small molecule dyes

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Ultra‐Bright Heptamethine Dye Clusters Based on a Self‐Adaptive Co‐Assembly Strategy for NIR‐IIb Biomedical Imaging

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Research Progress of Cyanine‐Based Near‐Infrared Fluorescent Probes for Biological Application

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Sulfur-Bridged Cationic Diazulenomethenes: Formation of Charge-Segregated Assembly with High Charge-Carrier Mobility

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Visualizing Tumors in Real Time: A Highly Sensitive PSMA Probe for NIR-II Imaging and Intraoperative Tumor Resection

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Photoacoustic Imaging Probes Based on Tetrapyrroles and Related Compounds

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Retrofitting NIR-II absorbing organic semiconducting fluorophores for reinvigorating deep-tissue fluorescence bioimaging

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Synergistic strategy of rare-earth doped nanoparticles for NIR-II biomedical imaging

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Engineering of Reversible NIR‐II Redox‐Responsive Fluorescent Probes for Imaging of Inflammation In Vivo

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A firm-push-to-open and light-push-to-lock strategy for a general chemical platform to develop activatable dual-modality NIR-II probes

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Advanced optical imaging technology in the near infrared window for cell tracking in vivo

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Current Status and Future Developments in NIR‐II‐emitting Organic Small Molecule Fluorophores for Bioimaging and Phototherapy

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Organic Fluorophores for 1064 nm Excited NIR-II Fluorescence Imaging

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Design, Synthesis, and In Vivo Imaging of a Stable Xanthene-Based Dye with NIR-II Emission up to 1450 nm

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Extended shortwave infrared absorbing antiaromatic fluorenium-indolizine chromophores

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A cyanine fluorophore for imaging-guided tumor photodynamic and photothermal therapy under NIR-II light activation

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Photostability investigation of a near-infrared-II heptamethine cyanine dye

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Tunable Wavelength, High-Brightness, and NIR-II Emission Phenanthridinium-Based Heptamethine Dyes for High-Contrast Vascular and Intestinal Imaging In Vivo

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A Mitochondria-Targeted NIR-II Molecule Fluorophore for Precise Cancer Phototheranostics

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Structure Tailoring of Hemicyanine Dyes for In Vivo Shortwave Infrared Imaging

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A single-molecular ruthenium( ii ) complex-based NIR-II fluorophore for enhanced chemo-photothermal therapy

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Progress and Challenges of Water-soluble NIR-II Organic Fluorophores for Fluorescence Imaging in vivo

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Near-infrared II emissive diphenylaminoacridine based on the planarized intramolecular charge transfer mechanism

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High spatiotemporal tracking of intestinal peristalsis and bowel disease via in situ generated NIR-II cyanine-albumin complex

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A Mitochondria‐Targeted Photosensitizer for Combined Pyroptosis and Apoptosis with NIR‐II Imaging/Photoacoustic Imaging‐Guided Phototherapy

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Less Is More: Donor Engineering of a Stable Molecular Dye for Bioimaging in the NIR-IIb Window

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Near-Infrared Organic Small-Molecule Fluorophores for Biological System and Organ-Level Imaging of Diseases: Recent Advances

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Hypsochromic Shift Donor–Acceptor NIR-II Dye for High-Efficiency Tumor Imaging

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NIR-II-Absorbing TMB Derivative for 1064 nm-Excited Photothermal Immunoassay

Liu, H. M., Zhang, X., Li, X., & Wu, P. (2024) · Analytical Chemistry · doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.4c00312 · Cited by 14

Counterion‐Paired Bright Heptamethine Fluorophores with NIR‐II Excitation and Emission Enable Multiplexed Biomedical Imaging

Yang, Y., Sun, C., Wang, S., Yan, K., Zhao, M., Wu, B., & Zhang, F. (2022) · Angewandte Chemie · doi:10.1002/ange.202117436 · Cited by 15

The luminous frontier: transformative NIR-IIa fluorescent polymer dots for deep-tissue imaging

Lawrance, R., Chowdhury, P., Lin, H.-C., & Chan, Y. (2024) · RSC Applied Polymers · doi:10.1039/d4lp00076e · Cited by 13

Advanced second near-infrared fluorophores for bioapplications

Bai, Q., Yang, Q., Liu, Y., Li, A., Yin, X.-B., & Wu, S. (2025) · Coordination Chemistry Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.ccr.2025.217146 · Cited by 14

有机近红外二区荧光探针研究进展

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Finely Tuned, Meticulously Screened Renal-Clearable Zwitterionic Cyanine Dyes for Targeted NIR-II Tumor Detection, Intraoperative Navigation, and Dual-Color Imaging

Qin, Y., Xu, Y., Gao, X., Qin, Y., Zhu, Y., Guo, J., Chen, Y., Li, Y., Wang, T., Fu, H., et al. (2025) · Journal of Medicinal Chemistry · doi:10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5c00975 · Cited by 13

Synthesis and Properties of Thiophene-Fused Thiopyrylium Salts

Nagahora, N., Kitahara, K., Mizuhata, Y., Tokitoh, N., Shioji, K., & Okuma, K. (2020) · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · doi:10.1021/acs.joc.0c00364 · Cited by 11

Structural modification of NIR-II fluorophores for angiography beyond 1300 nm: Expanding the xanthene universe

Zhang, C., An, J., Wu, J., Liu, W., Rha, H., Kim, J. S., & Wang, P. (2022) · Biosensors and Bioelectronics · doi:10.1016/j.bios.2022.114701 · Cited by 11

The pursuit of xanthenoid fluorophores with near-infrared-II emission for in vivo applications

Gao, Y., & Lei, Z. (2022) · Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry · doi:10.1007/s00216-022-04463-z · Cited by 10

Polymethine‐Based Semiconducting Polymer Dots with Narrow‐Band Emission and Absorption/Emission Maxima at NIR‐II for Bioimaging

Liu, M.-H., Zhang, Z., Yang, Y., & Chan, Y. (2020) · Angewandte Chemie · doi:10.1002/ange.202011914 · Cited by 10

Symmetry-breaking charge-transfer enables turn-on fluorescence sensing in the shortwave infrared spectral region for in vivo vasculature redox homeostasis

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Thiopyrylium Scaffolds from the Lewis/Brønsted-Acid-Promoted Cyclization of Thioethers

Nagahora, N., Tanaka, R., Tada, T., Yasuda, A., Yamada, Y., Shioji, K., & Okuma, K. (2020) · Organic Letters · doi:10.1021/acs.orglett.0c02292 · Cited by 10

Framework Integration Engineered Asymmetric Cyanine Dyes for In Vivo High-Performance NIR-II Imaging and Multiplexed Labeling

Qin, Y., Guo, J., Qin, Y., Xu, Z., Fang, M., Fu, H., Cui, M., & Zhou, K. (2025) · Analytical Chemistry · doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.5c04745 · Cited by 10

Recent advances in NIR-II fluorescence based theranostic approaches for glioma

Li, J., Ling, J., & Yao, C. (2022) · Frontiers in Chemistry · doi:10.3389/fchem.2022.1054913 · Cited by 8

Triplet state (anti)aromaticity of some monoheterocyclic analogues of benzene, naphthalene and anthracene

Baranac‐Stojanović, M., Stojanović, M., & Aleksić, J. (2021) · New Journal of Chemistry · doi:10.1039/d1nj00207d · Cited by 9

Ultra‐Bright Near‐Infrared Sulfonate‐Indolizine Cyanine‐ and Squaraine‐Albumin Chaperones: Record Quantum Yields and Applications

Meador, W. E., Капуста, К., Owolabi, I. J., Autry, S. A., Saloni, J., Kołodziejczyk, W., Hammer, N. I., Flynt, A. S., Hill, G., & Delcamp, J. H. (2022) · ChemPhotoChem · doi:10.1002/cptc.202200127 · Cited by 9

Recent Advances in Near-Infrared Cyanine Dye-Based Fluorescent Nanoprobes for Tumor Imaging and Therapy

Gao, Y., Zhu, L., Du, Z., Xiong, J., Ma, R., Aili, M., Alifu, N., & Dong, B. (2025) · International Journal of Nanomedicine · doi:10.2147/ijn.s542880 · Cited by 8

Site-specific albumin tagging with chloride-containing near-infrared cyanine dyes: molecular engineering, mechanism, and imaging applications

Su, Q., Zhang, Y., & Zhu, S. (2023) · Chemical Communications · doi:10.1039/d3cc04200f · Cited by 7

A near-infrared IIb fluorophore for in vivo imaging and image-guided therapy of ischemic stroke

Qiao, X., Yang, L., Wang, W., Xiao, Y., Tian, T., Wang, X., Luo, H.-B., Chen, D., Meng, X., Zeng, X., et al. (2023) · Dyes and Pigments · doi:10.1016/j.dyepig.2023.111123 · Cited by 7

Advances in optical imaging and nanotherapeutic technologies for hematological malignancies: From diagnosis to precision treatment

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Spatio‐Temporally Reporting Dose‐Dependent Chemotherapy via Uniting Dual‐Modal MRI/NIR Imaging

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Water-dispersed semiconducting polymer for NIR-II fluorescence imaging and NIR-II laser-triggered photothermal therapy

Yang, G., Wang, Y., Zhou, S. D., Chen, L., Chen, Y., Liu, Y., Liang, X., Yin, C., Zhou, H., & Fan, Q. (2022) · Dyes and Pigments · doi:10.1016/j.dyepig.2022.110960 · Cited by 6

Design strategies and biomedical applications of organic NIR-IIb fluorophores

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Targeting Contrast Agents With Peak Near-Infrared-II (NIR-II) Fluorescence Emission for Non-invasive Real-Time Direct Visualization of Thrombosis

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Optimization of the Structural Rigidity of a Deep‐NIR Scaffold for Bioimaging

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Palladium-Catalyzed Functionalization of Shortwave Infrared Heptamethine Fluorophores Expands Their In Vivo Utility

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