The strategy to improve the brightness of organic small-molecule fluorescent dyes for imaging
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Junliang Zhou, Tian-Bing Ren, Lin Yuan. The strategy to improve the brightness of organic small-molecule fluorescent dyes for imaging[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters,
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