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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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One-Step Formulation of Targeted Aggregation-Induced Emission Dots for Image-Guided Photodynamic Therapy of Cholangiocarcinoma

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Corannulene‐Incorporated AIE Nanodots with Highly Suppressed Nonradiative Decay for Boosted Cancer Phototheranostics In Vivo

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Good Steel Used in the Blade: Well‐Tailored Type‐I Photosensitizers with Aggregation‐Induced Emission Characteristics for Precise Nuclear Targeting Photodynamic Therapy

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Three‐Pronged Attack by Homologous Far‐red/NIR AIEgens to Achieve 1+1+1>3 Synergistic Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy

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Highly efficient singlet oxygen generation, two-photon photodynamic therapy and melanoma ablation by rationally designed mitochondria-specific near-infrared AIEgens

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Killing G(+) or G(−) Bacteria? The Important Role of Molecular Charge in AIE‐Active Photosensitizers

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A Feasible Strategy of Fabricating Type I Photosensitizer for Photodynamic Therapy in Cancer Cells and Pathogens

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Zwitterionic AIEgens: Rational Molecular Design for NIR‐II Fluorescence Imaging‐Guided Synergistic Phototherapy

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Selectively lighting up two-photon photodynamic activity in mitochondria with AIE-active iridium( iii ) complexes

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Tumor-Microenvironment-Responsive Nanoconjugate for Synergistic Antivascular Activity and Phototherapy

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NIR-II emissive multifunctional AIEgen with single laser-activated synergistic photodynamic/photothermal therapy of cancers and pathogens

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Facile synthesis of AIEgens with wide color tunability for cellular imaging and therapy

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Precise Molecular Engineering of Small Organic Phototheranostic Agents toward Multimodal Imaging-Guided Synergistic Therapy

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AIE Multinuclear Ir(III) Complexes for Biocompatible Organic Nanoparticles with Highly Enhanced Photodynamic Performance

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Mitochondria‐Targeted Polydopamine Nanocomposite with AIE Photosensitizer for Image‐Guided Photodynamic and Photothermal Tumor Ablation

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Light-Enhanced Bacterial Killing and Wash-Free Imaging Based on AIE Fluorogen

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An Iridium (III) Complex Bearing a Donor–Acceptor–Donor Type Ligand for NIR‐Triggered Dual Phototherapy

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Photothermal-pH-hypoxia responsive multifunctional nanoplatform for cancer photo-chemo therapy with negligible skin phototoxicity

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Multifunctional Liposome: A Bright AIEgen–Lipid Conjugate with Strong Photosensitization

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A Dual‐Functional Photosensitizer for Ultraefficient Photodynamic Therapy and Synchronous Anticancer Efficacy Monitoring

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Membrane intercalation-enhanced photodynamic inactivation of bacteria by a metallacycle and TAT-decorated virus coat protein

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Light‐Induced Self‐Escape of Spherical Nucleic Acid from Endo/Lysosome for Efficient Non‐Cationic Gene Delivery

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A highly efficient and AIE-active theranostic agent from natural herbs

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Red blood cell membrane-camouflaged nanoparticles loaded with AIEgen and Poly(I : C) for enhanced tumoral photodynamic-immunotherapy

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Structural and Theoretical Insights into the AIE Attributes of Phosphindole Oxide: The Balance Between Rigidity and Flexibility

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Far Red/Near-Infrared AIE Dots for Image-Guided Photodynamic Cancer Cell Ablation

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Precise Molecular Engineering of Photosensitizers with Aggregation‐Induced Emission over 800 nm for Photodynamic Therapy

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Reverse Thinking of the Aggregation‐Induced Emission Principle: Amplifying Molecular Motions to Boost Photothermal Efficiency of Nanofibers**

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Multifunctional Two-Photon AIE Luminogens for Highly Mitochondria-Specific Bioimaging and Efficient Photodynamic Therapy

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Molecular Engineering of Efficient Singlet Oxygen Generators with Near‐Infrared AIE Features for Mitochondrial Targeted Photodynamic Therapy

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Bright Bacterium for Hypoxia‐Tolerant Photodynamic Therapy Against Orthotopic Colon Tumors by an Interventional Method

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Boosting the photodynamic therapy efficiency by using stimuli-responsive and AIE-featured nanoparticles

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HClO‐Activated Fluorescence and Photosensitization from an AIE Nanoprobe for Image‐Guided Bacterial Ablation in Phagocytes

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Artemisinin and AIEgen Conjugate for Mitochondria-Targeted and Image-Guided Chemo- and Photodynamic Cancer Cell Ablation

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Bright Aggregation-Induced Emission Nanoparticles for Two-Photon Imaging and Localized Compound Therapy of Cancers

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Molecular engineering to accelerate cancer cell discrimination and boost AIE-active type I photosensitizer for photodynamic therapy under hypoxia

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Self-Assembly Regulated Singlet Oxygen Generation of Heavy-Atom-Free Organic Chromophores

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Aggregation-induced emission: An illuminator in the brain

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Lighting up plants with near-infrared fluorescence probes

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Interstitial Optical Fiber‐Mediated Multimodal Phototheranostics Based on an Aggregation‐Induced NIR‐II Emission Luminogen for Orthotopic Breast Cancer Treatment

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NIR-II Fluorophores: From Synthesis to Biological Applications

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The construction of dual-emissive ratiometric fluorescent probes based on fluorescent nanoparticles for the detection of metal ions and small molecules

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J-aggregates albumin-based NIR-II fluorescent dye nanoparticles for cancer phototheranostics

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Recent molecular design strategies for efficient photodynamic therapy and its synergistic therapy based on AIE photosensitizers

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BOIMPY Scaffold: Accessing Ultrahigh Molar Extinction Coefficient AIEgen for SWIR Imaging‐Guided Photothermal Cancer Ablation

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The Golden Touch by Light: A Finely Engineered Luminogen Empowering High Photoactivatable and Photodynamic Efficiency for Cancer Phototheranostics

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Review of MXene-Derived Quantum Dots for Cancer Theranostics

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AIE-active iridium( iii ) complex integrated with upconversion nanoparticles for NIR-irradiated photodynamic therapy

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Ir(III) Complexes with AIE Characteristics for Biological Applications

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Hypoxia-accelerating pyroptosis nanoinducers for promoting image-guided cancer immunotherapy

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Supramolecular materials based on AIEgens for photo-assisted therapy

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Oxygen‐Deficient Bioceramics: Combination of Diagnosis, Therapy, and Regeneration

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Less is More: Asymmetric D–A Type Agent to Achieve Dynamic Self‐Assembled Nanoaggregates for Long‐Acting Photodynamic Therapy

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Reviewing the evolutive ACQ‐to‐AIE transformation of photosensitizers for phototheranostics

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NIR-II aggregation-induced emission nanoparticles camouflaged with preactivated macrophage membranes for phototheranostics of pulmonary tuberculosis

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Regulated cell death mechanisms in mitochondria-targeted phototherapy

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An AIE-Active Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Photosensitizer for Selective Discrimination, Imaging, and Synergistic Elimination of Gram-Positive Bacteria

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Specific discrimination and efficient elimination of gram-positive bacteria by an aggregation-induced emission-active ruthenium (II) photosensitizer

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Strategies for Improving the Brightness of Aggregation‐Induced Emission Materials at Aggregate Level †

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Ultra-sensitive fluorescent immunoassay based on bright AIE nanoparticle for biomarkers detection and quantification

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A Brain-Targeting NIR-II Polymeric Phototheranostic Nanoplatform toward Orthotopic Drug-Resistant Glioblastoma

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NIR‐II AIEgens for High‐Contrast Intravital Fluorescence Angiography: Recent Advances and Prospects

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Biomimetic Metallacage Nanoparticles with Aggregation-Induced Emission for NIR-II Fluorescence Imaging-Guided Synergistic Immuno-Phototherapy of Tumors

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Modular Construction of AIE-Active Supramolecular Cages with Tunable Fluorescence for NIR-II Blood Vessel Imaging

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Hydrogel‐Based Macroscopic Click Chemistry

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Donor–Acceptor–Acceptor-Conjugated Dual-State Emissive Acrylonitriles: Investigating the Effect of Acceptor Unit Order and Biological Imaging

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Fluorescence determination of the total amount of tetracyclines by a flavonol-based supramolecular sensor

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Emerging Applications of Aggregation‐Induced Emission Luminogens in Bacterial Biofilm Imaging and Antibiofilm Theranostics

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Benzimidazole-scaffold based fluorescent probes for sensing and bioimaging applications

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Near-infrared emissive AIE nanoparticles for biomedical applications: From the perspective of different nanocarriers

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Acceptor-engineering tailored type-I photosensitizer with aggregation-induced NIR-II emission for cancer multimodal phototheranostics

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Aggregation‐enhanced theranostics: AIE sparkles in biomedical field

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聚集诱导发光材料在光学诊疗中的研究进展

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Theranostics based on AIEgens

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Aggregation-Induced Generation of Reactive Oxygen Species: Mechanism and Photosensitizer Construction

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One-for-all phototheranostics: Single component AIE dots as multi-modality theranostic agent for fluorescence-photoacoustic imaging-guided synergistic cancer therapy

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