Lu, Zi-Gang
Liu, Haoran https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2226-4974
Xu, Wenjun
Huang, Henglong
Fan, Shubo
Wang, Huaxi
Ji, Xianglin
Yin, Zhiwei
Peng, Zhennan
Yang, Qin
Zhang, Limin
Zhang, Feiran
Tian, Xiaodong
Dai, Zideng https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6648-3482
Cheng, Xiaobao
Cui, Liang
Yang, Jianzhang
Wang, Feifei https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7687-3412
Cheung, Kenneth Man-Chee https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8304-0419
Li, Xuesong
Lu, Zhenquan
Dai, Hongjie https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4906-4502
Article History
Received: 18 December 2025
Accepted: 15 May 2026
First Online: 12 June 2026
Competing interests
: H.D. is a scientific co-founder and consultant of Nirmidas Biotech Inc. H.D., Z.-G.L., H.L. and W.X. are inventors of patents under pending examination (title: A novel kind of fluorescent dyes, application number: 2025104121592; title: A novel kind of fluorescent dyes, application number: PCT/CN2025/088869; title: A novel kind of fluorescent dyes, application number: 2025117261609) with HKU-SIRI as the patent applicant, related to the threaded α-cyclodextrin rotaxane NIR dyes described.