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Intermolecular Electronic Coupling of Organic Units for Efficient Persistent Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence

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Organic Nanocrystals with Bright Red Persistent Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence for Biological Applications

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Design of Metal‐Free Polymer Carbon Dots: A New Class of Room‐Temperature Phosphorescent Materials

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Efficient Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence of a Solid‐State Supramolecule Enhanced by Cucurbit[6]uril

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Aromatic Thioethers as Novel Luminophores with Aggregation‐Induced Fluorescence and Phosphorescence

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Reevaluating Protein Photoluminescence: Remarkable Visible Luminescence upon Concentration and Insight into the Emission Mechanism

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Intrinsic Analysis of Radiative and Room-Temperature Nonradiative Processes Based on Triplet State Intramolecular Vibrations of Heavy Atom-Free Conjugated Molecules toward Efficient Persistent Room-Temperature Phosphorescence

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Biluminescence via Fluorescence and Persistent Phosphorescence in Amorphous Organic Donor(D4)–Acceptor(A) Conjugates and Application in Data Security Protection

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A colorless semi-aromatic polyimide derived from a sterically hindered bromine-substituted dianhydride exhibiting dual fluorescence and phosphorescence emission

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Ultralong-lived room temperature triplet excitons: molecular persistent room temperature phosphorescence and nonlinear optical characteristics with continuous irradiation

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Meta-Alkoxy-Substituted Difluoroboron Dibenzoylmethane Complexes as Environment-Sensitive Materials

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Intersystem Crossing Mechanisms in the Room Temperature Phosphorescence of Crystalline Organic Compounds

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Halogen bond induced phosphorescence of capped γ-amino acid in the solid state

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Aggregation‐enhanced theranostics: AIE sparkles in biomedical field

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The fast-growing field of photo-driven theranostics based on aggregation-induced emission

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Gathering brings strength: How organic aggregates boost disease phototheranostics

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Review on recent trends and prospects in π‐conjugated luminescent aggregates for biomedical applications

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Room temperature phosphorescence materials based on small organic molecules: Design strategies and applications

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Spectroscopic studies on napththalene in the vapor phase. III. Phosphorescence and intersystem crossing yields of single vibronic levels

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Intersystem crossing, phosphorescence, and spin-orbit coupling. Two contrasting Cu(I)-TADF dimers investigated by milli- to micro-second phosphorescence, femto-second fluorescence, and theoretical calculations

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Emission spectra and phosphorescence lifetime of benzene solutions at 77°K, as a function of concentration and excitation wavelength

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Synergistic Generation and Accumulation of Triplet Excitons for Efficient Ultralong Organic Phosphorescence

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Cyclization-Promoted Ultralong Low-Temperature Phosphorescence via Boosting Intersystem Crossing

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