“…Over the years significant progress has been made towards detecting various metal ions (Dean et al, 2012; Penner-Hahn, 2013), including Zn 2+ (Carter et al, 2011; Guo et al, 2012; Radford et al, 2013; Wang et al, 2011; You et al, 2011), Na + (Schreiner and Rose, 2013), and K + (Padmawar et al, 2005). Probes were also developed for detecting small molecules such as NO (Dong et al, 2013; Yu et al, 2012), H + (pH probes) (Han and Burgess, 2010; Kim et al, 2013), singlet O 2 (Song et al, 2013; K. Xu et al, 2011), H 2 O 2 (Belousov et al, 2006; Guo et al, 2014), Cl - (Arosio and Ratto, 2014), large biomolecules such as matrix metalloproteinases (Vandenbroucke and Libert, 2014) and various biothiols (Xu et al, 2014), as well as complex cellular processes such as labeling dying cells with propidium iodide (Driscoll et al, 2011) or assessing the glutathione redox potential (Gutscher et al, 2008).…”