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Biological Activity: NRLD is a lipid droplet-targeting solvatochromic fluorescent probe developed based on Nile Red (HY-D0718), which can target lipid droplets and sense the non-polar lipid microenvironment inside lipid droplets. NRLD exhibits superior lipid droplet-targeting selectivity compared to the parent Nile Red dye in HeLa cell imaging. NRLD achieves detection relying on the solvatochromic effect generated by excited-state charge transfer, and its emission wavelength shifts according to the local polarity changes of the microenvironment it locates in: the more compact and ordered the lipid packing and the lower the environmental polarity, the more blue-shifted the emission; the looser the lipid packing or the stronger the hydration and the higher the environmental polarity, the more red-shifted the emission. NRLD shows blue shift in the non-polar oil core of lipid droplets and red shift in high-polarity environments such as phosphate buffer^[1].