When light-absorbing materials are excited by visible or near-infrared (NIR) light, they will eventually come back to their original equilibrium state, and a part of the absorbed photon energy is released as heat through nonradiative transitions during this process. The heat is determined by absorption ability under excitation wavelength and photothermal conversion efficiency, which is strongly related to the radiative and nonradiative transition rates. A good photothermal material should have high photothermal conversion efficiency, suitable absorption spectrum, and high light absorption ability, and can be used for photoacoustic imaging, [1][2][3] cancer photothermal therapy, [4,5] seawater desalination, [6][7][8] lightdriven thermoelectric system, [9,10] and so on. Especially, the second infrared window (NIR-II, 1000-1700 nm) absorbed photothermal materials have received much attention in biological applications for weak light scattering, low tissue absorption, deep tissue penetration depth, and high maximum permission exposure (up to 1.0 W cm À2 under 1064 nm laser excitation). Up to now, varied photothermal materials can roughly be categorized into two parts: inorganic materials and organic counterparts. For the potential long-term toxicity of inorganic materials, organic counterparts possess low toxicity, easy structural modification, tunable properties, and abundant molecules, so organic photothermal materials have rapidly developed during the last two decades. Typical organic photothermal materials embrace porphyrin, [11] cyanine dyes, [12,13] diketopyrrolopyrrole, [5] polyaniline, [14] polypyrrole, [15] semiconducting polymers, charge-transfer complexes (CTCs), [16] and so on.Among them, the CTCs are composed of electron-donating (D) and electron-accepting (A) molecules, and formed once charge delocalization takes place between the D and A leading to an enhanced molecular polarization, [17] which can be described as [18] In 1973, a famous CTC (TTF-TCNQ) was first reported, which was made of tetrathiafulvalene and 7,7 0 ,8,8 0 -tetracyanoquinodimethane; the researchers found that the electrical conductivity of TTF-TCNQ was comparable with metals. [19] From then on, the electrical properties of CTCs have got much attraction,