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 …

Photodynamic therapy: Innovative approaches for antibacterial and anticancer treatments

M Kolarikova, B Hosikova, H Dilenko… - Medicinal Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Photodynamic therapy is an alternative treatment mainly for cancer but also for bacterial
infections. This treatment dates back to 1900 when a German medical school graduate …

Efficient NIR-II type-I AIE photosensitizer for mitochondria-targeted photodynamic therapy through synergistic apoptosis–ferroptosis

J Zhuang, B Wang, H Chen, K Zhang, N Li, N Zhao… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hypoxia, the hallmark of malignant tumors, has been recognized as a major obstacle for
photodynamic therapy (PDT). Precisely targeting cancer cells in intricate biological …

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 …

Ruthenium-based photoactivated chemotherapy

S Bonnet - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ruthenium (II) polypyridyl complexes form a vast family of molecules characterized by their
finely tuned photochemical and photophysical properties. Their ability to undergo excited …

Recent advances in nanomedicines for photodynamic therapy (PDT)-driven cancer immunotherapy

B Ji, M Wei, B Yang - Theranostics, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer immunotherapy has made tremendous clinical progress in advanced-stage
malignancies. However, patients with various tumors exhibit a low response rate to …

Luminescent and photofunctional transition metal complexes: From molecular design to diagnostic and therapeutic applications

LCC Lee, KKW Lo - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022 - ACS Publications
There has been emerging interest in the exploitation of the photophysical and
photochemical properties of transition metal complexes for diagnostic and therapeutic …

Mito‐bomb: targeting mitochondria for cancer therapy

X Guo, N Yang, W Ji, H Zhang, X Dong… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer has been one of the most common life‐threatening diseases for a long time.
Traditional cancer therapies such as surgery, chemotherapy (CT), and radiotherapy (RT) …

Recent progress in photosensitizers for overcoming the challenges of photodynamic therapy: from molecular design to application

X Zhao, J Liu, J Fan, H Chao, X Peng - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Photodynamic therapy (PDT), a therapeutic mode involving light triggering, has been
recognized as an attractive oncotherapy treatment. However, nonnegligible challenges …

Type I photosensitizers revitalizing photodynamic oncotherapy

D Chen, Q Xu, W Wang, J Shao, W Huang, X Dong - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has shown great potential for tumor treatment with merits of
non‐invasiveness, high selectivity, and minimal side effects. However, conventional type II …