Synthetic molecular probes, chemosensors, and nanosensors used in combination with
innovative assay protocols hold great potential for the development of robust, low-cost, and …

Fluorescent chemosensors for ions and neutral analytes have been widely applied in many
diverse fields such as biology, physiology, pharmacology, and environmental sciences. The …

The cyanine platforms including cyanine, hemicyanine, and squaraine are good candidates
for develo** chemosensors because of their excellent photophysical properties …

Simple thiol derivatives, such as cysteine (Cys), homocysteine (Hcy), and glutathione (GSH),
play key roles in biological processes, and the fluorescent probes to detect such thiols in …

The history of isomeric types of organic molecules has passed through several important
stages:(1) Molecules that differ from each other with different numbers and types of atoms;(2) …

Chromogenic and fluorogenic probes may be described as the reagents that can interact
with analytes (targets) accompanied by the changes of their spectroscopic (chromogenic, or …

Luminescence bioimaging offers a unique approach for visualizing morphological details of
tissues with subcellular resolution and has become a powerful tool for the manipulation and …

Due to the biological importances of thiols, such as cysteine, homocysteine and glutathione,
the development of optical probes for thiols has been an active research area in recent few …

Because of the biological importance of thiols, the development of probes for thiols has been
an active research area in recent years. In this review, we summarize the results of recent …

Squaraine dyes (SQs) are an important class of polymethine dyes with a unique reasonable‐
stabilized zwitterionic structure, in which electrons are highly delocalized over the …