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Heqi Gao, ^# Yiming Yao, ^# Cong Li, Jingtian Zhang, Haoyun Yu, Xiaodi Yang, Jing Shen, Qian Liu, Ruitong Xu, Xike Gao,* Dan Ding* (^#These authors contributed equally to this work)

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202400372

https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202400372

2.   Design, synthesis and charge transport properties of conjugated copolymers based on 2,6-azulene and bi-thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione

Yang Wang, Junjun Xiang, Xike Gao*

Chin. Sci. Bull, 2024, 69, 45–57.

https://doi.org/10.1360/TB-2023-0749

3.   Azulene-Containing Bis(squaraine) Dyes: Design, Synthesis and Aggregation Behaviors

Yiming Yao, ^# Xuan Sun, ^# Zuyuan Zhang, Haoyun Yu, Xiaodi Yang, Dan Ding,* Xike Gao* (^#These authors contributed equally to this work)

Chem. Eur. J. 2024, e202400474

https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202400474

4.   NIR-II Excitable Semiconducting Polymers with AIECharacteristics for Fluorescence-Photoacoustic Imaging-Guided Synergistic Phototherapy

Jiangao Li, Zhijun Zhang,* Shanshan Jiang, Miaomiao Kang, Deliang Wang, Xue Li,Peng Huang, Xike Gao,* Dong Wang,* Ben Zhong Tang*

Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024, 240162.

https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202401627