For decades now, photoacoustic imaging (PAI) has been investigated to realize its potential
as a niche biomedical imaging modality. Despite its highly desirable optical contrast and …

Gold nanorods (NRs), pseudo-one-dimensional rod-shaped nanoparticles (NPs), have
become one of the burgeoning materials in the recent years due to their anisotropic shape …

Cancer immunotherapy has made tremendous clinical progress in advanced-stage
malignancies. However, patients with various tumors exhibit a low response rate to …

Polymeric materials have been extensively explored in the field of nanomedicine; within
them, poly lactic-co-glycolic acid (PLGA) holds a prominent position in micro-and …

Recent advances of plasmonic nanoparticles include fascinating developments in the fields
of energy, catalyst chemistry, optics, biotechnology, and medicine. The plasmonic …

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging as a fast‐develo** imaging technique has great potential in
biomedical and clinical applications. It is a noninvasive imaging modality that depends on …

In view of certain unique internalization features of the tumor microenvironment
(TME)(mainly including hypoxia, acidity and higher concentrations of H 2 O 2 and GSH) …

In photoacoustic imaging, the second near-infrared (NIR-II) window is where tissue
generates the least background signal. However, the large size of the few available contrast …

Photo–triggered therapeutic modalities for cancer have attracted enormous attention in
recent years due to the easily focused and tuned properties of irradiation light that enable …

Photothermal therapy (PTT) offers many advantages such as high efficiency and minimal
invasiveness, but clinical adoption of PTT nanoagents have been stifled by unresolved …