Merocyanines, owing to their readily tunable electronic structure, are arguably the most
versatile functional dyes, with ample opportunities for tailored design via variations of both …

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has gradually become a pronoun for terrifying death owing
to its high mortality rate. With the progression of HCC, lipid droplets (LDs) in HCC cells …

The fluorescence quenching of 5-chloro-2-methoxyphenylboronic acid (5CMPBA) and 4-
fluoro-2-methoxyphenyl boronic acid (4FMPBA) has been studied at room temperature by …

The synthesis of keto-heptamethine derivatives has been expanded to various new
symmetrical and asymmetrical structures, including an unprecedented di-anionic keto …

Photophysical properties of a series of bis (arylydene) cycloalkanone dyes with various
donor substituents are studied using quantum chemistry. Their capacity for luminescence …

The absorption and fluorescence characteristics of 3-(4′-dimethylaminophenyl)-1-(2-
thienyl) prop-2-en-1-one (DMATP) have been investigated in different solvents. DMATP dye …

The absorption maxima of N-alkyl (methyl, hexyl, and hexadecyl)-4-[(4-N, N-dimethylamino)
styryl] pyridinium halides in binary solvents were analyzed for probing preferential solvation …

Spectroscopic, luminescent, and spectral kinetic properties of cycloalkanone-based
dienones and their diethylamino, methylthio, methoxy, and dimethoxy derivatives were …

Dynamics of the excited singlet (both the S2 and S1) states of a ketocyanine dye, namely, 2,
5-bis [(2, 3-dihydroindolyl)-propylene]− cyclopentanone (KCD), have been investigated in …

A new and highly sensitive molecular probe namely, 2-(p-dimethylaminostyryl) benzoxazole
(DMASBO) has been employed to follow the micellar aggregation of three commonly used …