This work provides an overview of the recent advances in the field of two-photon absorbing
chromophores active in the short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) spectral range. Herein the …

Organic polymethine fluorophores with emission in the NIR-II window (1000–1700 nm) are
receiving enormous attention in biomolecular medicine and bioimaging, attributed to the …

Recent progress has shown that using wavelengths between 1,000 and 2,000 nm, referred
to as the shortwave-infrared or near-infrared (NIR)-II range, can enable high-resolution in …

Heptamethine indocyanines are invaluable probes for near-infrared (NIR) imaging. Despite
broad use, there are only a few synthetic methods to assemble these molecules, and each …

Optical imaging within the shortwave infrared (SWIR, 1000–2000 nm) region of the
electromagnetic spectrum has enabled high-resolution and high-contrast imaging in mice …

Photon excitation and emission at the NIR‐II spectral window enable high‐contrast deep‐
tissue bioimaging. However, multiplexed imaging with NIR‐II excitation and emission has …

Organic dyes in the excited singlet state (S1) decay via intersystem crossing (ISC) to the
triplet state, radiative dissipation as fluorescence, or nonradiative decay for thermal …

Heptamethine cyanine dyes (Cy7) have attracted much attention in the field of biological
application due to their unique structure and attractive near infrared (NIR) photophysical …

The rational design of bright near and shortwave infrared (NIR: 700–1,000; SWIR: 1,000–
2,000 nm) emitters remains an open question with applications spanning imaging and …

It has been proved that the effectiveness of photodynamic therapy (PDT) is closely related to
the intrinsic features of the photosensitizer (PS). Over the recent years, several efforts have …