A contact lens includes at least one color changeable region, wherein the color changeable region includes at least one photoluminescence material. When a wavelength of the photoluminescence material having a maximum radiation intensity is WEmMx, an average transmittance in a wavelength range of 400 nm-700 nm of the color changeable region is T4070, a size of a total area of the color changeable region is AC, and a size of a total area of the contact lens is AL, certain conditions relating to WEmMx, T4070 and AC/AL are satisfied.

A contact lens includes at least one color changeable region, wherein the color changeable region includes at least one photoluminescence material. When a wavelength of the photoluminescence material having a maximum radiation intensity is WEmMx, an average transmittance in a wavelength range of 400 nm-700 nm of the color changeable region is T4070, a size of a total area of the color changeable region is AC, and a size of a total area of the contact lens is AL, certain conditions relating to WEmMx, T4070 and AC/AL are satisfied.

A fluorescent dye, a preparation method and uses thereof, wherein the fluorescent dye has the advantages of sensitivity and specificity to viscosity response, low background fluorescence and the like, and can also be used as a fluorescence activated and lightened-up probe for fluorescence labeling, quantification or detection of proteins, enzymes or nucleic acids.

Fluorescence quenching nitrodiarylethene analogs are useful in oligonucleotide conjugates and probes. These analogs, whose absorption spectra are substantially blue-shifted relatively to emission spectra of common fluorophores (such as fluorescein), do not need to rely on spectral overlap of quencher absorbance and fluorophore's emission for their quenching abilities. The oligonucleotide-quencher conjugates may be used in detection methods for nucleic acid targets.

Disclosed herein is a donor-acceptor-donor (D-A-D) compound of formula I, where in the acceptors are mono-substituted tetraphenylethylene moieties. Also disclosed herein are fluorescent nanodots that comprise the compound of formula (I) and uses of said compound or nanodots in in vivo imaging or detecting of cancer cells in a subject.

The disclosure provides for provides for water-soluble near-infra red (NIR) emissive compounds, processes of making the compounds thereof, and use of the compounds therein.

Compounds useful as fluorescent or colored dyes that enable visual detection of biomolecules and other analytes are disclosed. The compounds comprise a phenylethynylnapthalene moiety represented by the following structure (I): ##STR00001## including salts thereof, wherein R.sup.1a, R.sup.1b, R.sup.1c, R.sup.1d, R.sup.1e, R.sup.1f, R.sup.2a, R.sup.2b, R.sup.2c, R.sup.2d, R.sup.2e, R.sup.2f, R.sup.2g, R.sup.2h, R.sup.2i, R.sup.2j, x and y are as defined herein. Methods associated with preparation and use of such compounds for visually detecting a biomolecule are also provided.

The present disclosure relates to a fluorogenic pH-sensitive dye and a film for detecting pH using the fluorogenic pH-sensitive dye on a polymer film. The fluorogenic pH-sensitive dye includes an aryl compound having a sulfonyl group (—SO.sub.2) and an agarose compound covalently bonded to the sulfonyl group (—SO.sub.2) of the aryl compound.

Provided are dyes and compositions which are useful in a number of applications, such as the detection and monitoring protein aggregation, kinetic studies of protein aggregation, neurofibrillary plaques analysis, evaluation of protein formulation stability, and analysis of molecular chaperone activity.

[This] charge transport material which comprises a compound expressed by the following formula has a high efficiency and drive durability after high-temperature storage and resists the occurrence of dark spots (X.sup.101 represents a sulfur atom or an oxygen atom; R.sup.101 and R.sup.102 represent each independently an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heteroaryl group, a fluorine atom, or a silyl group, and may further be substituted with these groups; n101 represents an integer from 0 to 11; n102 represents an integer from 0 to 7; a plurality of R.sup.101 and R.sup.102 [groups] may be the same or different; and L.sup.101 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group; however, one of R.sup.101, L.sup.101, and R.sup.102 includes a fluorine atom, a fluoroalkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a cycloalkylene group, a silyl group, an alkylsilyl group, an arylsilyl group, or a silicon atom linking group.) ##STR00001##