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Overcoming the colour barrier

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High-efficiency, time-___domain, near-infrared fluorophores provide multiplexed colour channels for distinct deep bioimaging.

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Fig. 1: High-efficiency time-___domain transducer (τ-dot) will add multiplexed NIR-I/II channels for deep bioimaging.

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