Fluorescent Dye Engineering: From Empirical Trial and Error to Precision Customization

Jun Yin; Xiaoxie Ma; Huiting Huang; Juyoung Yoon

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Fluorescent Dye Engineering: From Empirical Trial and Error to Precision Customization

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