The development of multifunctional agents for simultaneous tumor targeting and near
infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging is expected to have significant impact on future …

This review summarizes diverse synthetic methodologies to prepare a wide range of
heptamethine cyanine dyes, including symmetrical, unsymmetrical, and meso‐substituted …

Carbon dots (CDs) have emerged as novel fluorescent probes due to their remarkable
optical properties; however, red emission is still rare, has a relatively low efficiency, and its …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) and cellular oxidant stress have long been associated with
cancer. Unfortunately, the role of HClO in tumor biology is much less clear than for other …

Intracellular viscosity strongly influences transportation of mass and signal, interactions
between the biomacromolecules, and diffusion of reactive metabolites in live cells …

Solute− solvent intermolecular photoinduced electron transfer (ET) reaction was proposed to
account for the drastic fluorescence quenching behaviors of oxazine 750 (OX750) …

Identifying cancer cells and quantifying cancer-related events in particular organelles in a
rapid and sensitive fashion are important for early diagnosis and for studies on pathology …

The time‐dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) method was carried out to
investigate the hydrogen‐bonded intramolecular charge‐transfer (ICT) excited state of 4 …

We reported the first lysosome targeted two-photon fluorescent probe (Lyso-NP) as a
viscosity probe for monitoring autophagy. The fluorescence lifetime of Lyso-NP exhibited an …

A series of heptamethine cyanine (1–3) derivatives bearing a carbamate ethyl disulfide
group and gemcitabine, an anticancer drug, have been newly synthesized. Their disulfide …