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Guest edited by Dr Kyril Solntsev (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) and Professor Ben Zhong Tang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong), this themed issue covers all aspects of the recent exciting progress in shape-responsive fluorophores, and highlights remarkable contributions made by the leading scientists in this important research area, as well as the broad impacts of this novel class of fluorophores.

The full issue on Shape-responsive fluorophones can be read here.

Below is a small selection of articles from the issue:

Editorial
Themed issue on shape-responsive fluorophores
Ben Zhong Tang and Kyril M. Solntsev
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J. Mater. Chem. C, 2016, 4, 2638-2639
DOI: 10.1039/C6TC90054B

Papers
Docking-guided identification of protein hosts for GFP chromophore-like ligands
Natalia V. Povarova, Nina G. Bozhanova, Karen S. Sarkisyan, Roman Gritcenko, Mikhail S. Baranov, Ilia V. Yampolsky, Konstantin A. Lukyanov and Alexander S. Mishin
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2016, 4, 3036-3040
DOI: 10.1039/C5TC03931B

Temperature-dependent shape-responsive fluorescent nanospheres for image-guided drug delivery
Shawn He, George Tourkakis, Oleg Berezin, Nikolay Gerasimchuk, Hairong Zhang, Haiying Zhou, Asaf Izraely, Walter J. Akers and Mikhail Y. Berezin
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2016, 4, 3028-3035
DOI: 10.1039/C6TC00122J