Recent strategies to develop innovative photosensitizers for enhanced photodynamic therapy

TC Pham, VN Nguyen, Y Choi, S Lee, J Yoon - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
This review presents a robust strategy to design photosensitizers (PSs) for various species.
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a photochemical-based treatment approach that involves the …

Recent advances in the design of afterglow materials: mechanisms, structural regulation strategies and applications

X Yang, GIN Waterhouse, S Lu, J Yu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Afterglow materials are attracting widespread attention owing to their distinctive and long-
lived optical emission properties which create exciting opportunities in various fields. Recent …

Shining new light on biological systems: luminescent transition metal complexes for bioimaging and biosensing applications

LCC Lee, KKW Lo - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Luminescence imaging is a powerful and versatile technique for investigating cell
physiology and pathology in living systems, making significant contributions to life science …

Photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy

M Lan, S Zhao, W Liu, CS Lee… - Advanced healthcare …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
As an emerging clinical modality for cancer treatment, photodynamic therapy (PDT) takes
advantage of the cytotoxic activity of reactive oxygen species (ROS) that are generated by …

Ratiometric optical nanoprobes enable accurate molecular detection and imaging

X Huang, J Song, BC Yung, X Huang… - Chemical Society …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Exploring and understanding biological and pathological changes are of great significance
for early diagnosis and therapy of diseases. Optical sensing and imaging approaches have …

Chemical design and synthesis of functionalized probes for imaging and treating tumor hypoxia

J Liu, W Bu, J Shi - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Hypoxia development in tumor is closely associated with its increased aggressiveness and
strong resistance to therapy, leading to the poor prognosis in several cancer types …

Facile, quick, and gram‐scale synthesis of ultralong‐lifetime room‐temperature‐phosphorescent carbon dots by microwave irradiation

K Jiang, Y Wang, X Gao, C Cai… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Long‐lifetime room‐temperature phosphorescence (RTP) materials are important for many
applications, but they are highly challenging materials owing to the spin‐forbidden nature of …

Self‐protective room‐temperature phosphorescence of fluorine and nitrogen codoped carbon dots

P Long, Y Feng, C Cao, Y Li, J Han, S Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The unstable triplet excited state is a core problem when develo** self‐protective room
temperature phosphorescence (RTP) in carbon dots (CDs). Here, fluorine and nitrogen …

Gas‐generating nanoplatforms: material chemistry, multifunctionality, and gas therapy

L Yu, P Hu, Y Chen - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The fast advances of theranostic nanomedicine enable the rational design and construction
of diverse functional nanoplatforms for versatile biomedical applications, among which gas …

Conjugated polymer nanoparticles for imaging, cell activity regulation, and therapy

Y Wang, L Feng, S Wang - Advanced Functional Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Conjugated polymer nanoparticles, considered as a class of promising nanomaterials for
biomedical application, are extensively employed in bioimaging, anti‐microorganism and …