The ability to manipulate the structure and function of promising nanosystems via energy
input and external stimuli is emerging as an attractive paradigm for developing …

Diarylethene (DAE) photoswitches, known for their reversible photoinduced cyclization and
cycloreversion reactions, have shown great promise in various fields such as optical data …

This review discusses recent advances and the reported strategies over the last ten years on
the use of carbon-based quantum dots (QDs), including carbon dots (CDs), graphene …

Luminescent bioprobes are powerful analytical means for biosensing and optical imaging.
Luminogens featured with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) attributes have emerged as …

Polymer encapsulated organic nanoparticles have recently attracted increasing attention in
the biomedical field because of their unique optical properties, easy fabrication and …

As a new class of organic optical nanomaterials, semiconducting polymer nanoparticles
(SPNs) have the advantages of excellent optical properties, high photostability, facile …

Absorption of light by a molecule (donor, D) generates an excited state, which may
subsequently transfer the excitation to another chromophore (acceptor, A) in the vicinity …

Semiconducting polymer nanoparticles (SPNs) emerge as attractive molecular imaging
nanoagents in living animals because of their excellent optical properties including large …

Materials with persistent luminescence are attractive for in vivo optical imaging since they
have a long lifetime that allows the separation of excitation of fluorophores and image …

Fluorescent molecules and materials are widely used in many areas in physics, chemistry,
and biology as emitters, tags, or sensors. The possibility of controlling their fluorescence …