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  1. Cyanide Boosting Copper Catalysis: A Mild Approach to Fluorescent Benzazole Derivatives from Nonemissive Schiff Bases in Biological Media

    Article • Organic Letters, April 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Yongqian Xu

  2. A simple ratiometric fluorescent sensor selectively compatible of different combinations of characteristic groups for identification of glutathione, cysteine and homocysteine

    Article • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, January 2020, Elsevier

    Yongqian Xu

  3. A lysosome-targetable near infrared fluorescent probe for glutathione sensing and live-cell imaging

    Article • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, December 2019, Elsevier

    Yongqian Xu

  4. Media Dependent Switching of Selectivity and Continuous near Infrared Turn-on Fluorescence Response through Cascade Interactions from Noncovalent to Covalent Binding for Detection of Serum Albumin in Living Cells

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, December 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Yongqian Xu

  5. Multifunctional nanogel engineering with redox-responsive and AIEgen features for the targeted delivery of doxorubicin hydrochloride with enhanced antitumor efficiency and real-time intracellular imaging

    Article • Artificial Cells Nanomedicine and Biotechnology, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Yongqian Xu

  6. Substituent effect: A new strategy to construct a ratiometric fluorescent probe for detection of Al3+ and imaging in vivo

    Article • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, July 2018, Elsevier

    Yongqian Xu

  7. Imaging of formaldehyde in live cells and plants utilizing small molecular probes with large stokes shifts

    Article • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, May 2018, Elsevier

    Yongqian Xu

  8. A BSA-squaraine hybrid system for selectively detecting Ag+ in absolute PBS and sequential construction of logic functions

    Article • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, June 2017, Elsevier

    Yongqian Xu

  9. A simple excited-state intramolecular proton transfer probe based on a new strategy of thiol–azide reaction for the selective sensing of cysteine and glutathione

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Yongqian Xu

  10. A novel self-assembled platform for the ratiometric fluorescence detection of spermine

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Yongqian Xu

  11. Nanoparticles self-assembled from multiple interactions: a novel near-infrared fluorescent sensor for the detection of serum albumin in human sera and turn-on live-cell imaging

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Yongqian Xu

  12. Highly selective turn-on detection of (strept)avidin based on self-assembled near-infrared fluorescent probes

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Yongqian Xu

  13. A simple approach for the discrimination of surfactants based on the control of squaraine aggregation

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Yongqian Xu

  14. A fluorescent probe for hydrazine and its in vivo applications

    Article • RSC Advances, August 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Yongqian Xu

  15. A colorimetric and near-infrared fluorescent probe with high sensitivity and selectivity for acid phosphatase and inhibitor screening

    Article • Chemical Communications, June 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Yongqian Xu

  16. Substituent effect on fluorophores instead of ionophores: its implication in highly selective fluorescent probes for Zn2+ over Cd2+

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Yongqian Xu

  17. A near infrared fluorescent dye for trivalent ions sensing and working as a molecular keypad lock

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Yongqian Xu

  18. Switchable and selective detection of Zn2+ or Cd2+ in living cells based on 3′-O-substituted arrangement of benzoxazole-derived fluorescent probes

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Yongqian Xu

  19. A specific and rapid “on-off” acenaphthenequinone-based probe for HOCl detection and imaging in living cells

    Article • New Journal of Chemistry, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Yongqian Xu

  20. “ICT-not-quenching” near infrared ratiometric fluorescent detection of picric acid in aqueous media

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Yongqian Xu

  21. The sphere-to-rod transition of squaraine-embedded micelles: a self-assembly platform displays a distinct response to cysteine and homocysteine

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Yongqian Xu, Dr Shiguo Sun