Jiangli Fan

TL;DR: This review focuses on the development from 2000 to 2015 of cyanine, hemicyanine, and squaraine sensors, and emphasizes the advances that have been made in improving the detection performance through incorporation of the chemosensors into nanoparticles.

TL;DR: These efforts place an emphasis on improvements in terms of low cytotoxicity, high photostability, near-infrared (NIR) emission, two-photon excitation, and long fluorescence lifetimes, which are crucial for long-time tracking of biological processes, tissue and body imaging with deep penetration and low autofluorescence, and time-resolved fluorescence imaging.

TL;DR: This critical review focuses on representative examples of mild chemical processes that can be used in fluorescent chemodosimeters for ion sensing (anions and cations) and a systematisation according to the type of reaction mechanism is established.

TL;DR: In this paper, a selective sensor based on an internal charge transfer (ICT) mechanism was designed and synthesized for the fluorescent imaging of Cd2+ in living cells, which can be used in both general fluorescence intensity microscopy and ratiometric fluorescence microscopy.

TL;DR: New heptamethine cyanine dyes with an alkylamino group at the central position were found to exhibit a large Stokes shift and strong fluorescence and were suggested to be a new paradigm for excited-state intramolecular charge transfer (ICT).