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 …

The fast-growing field of photo-driven theranostics based on aggregation-induced emission

Z Zhang, M Kang, H Tan, N Song, M Li, P **ao… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Photo-driven theranostics, also known as phototheranostics, relying on the diverse excited-
state energy conversions of theranostic agents upon photoexcitation represents a significant …

Platinum complexes with aggregation-induced emission

SY Yang, Y Chen, RTK Kwok, JWY Lam… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Transition metal-containing materials with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) have brought
new opportunities for the development of biological probes, optoelectronic materials, stimuli …

Aggregation‐enhanced theranostics: AIE sparkles in biomedical field

M Kang, Z Zhang, N Song, M Li, P Sun, X Chen… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Theranostics referring to the ingenious integration of diagnostics and therapeutics has
garnered tremendous attention in these years as it provides a promising opportunity for …

Stimuli-responsive therapeutic metallodrugs

X Wang, X Wang, S **, N Muhammad, Z Guo - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The success of platinum-based anticancer agents has motivated the exploration of novel
metal-based drugs for several decades, whereas problems such as drug-resistance and …

Aggregation-induced emission: a trailblazing journey to the field of biomedicine

C Zhu, RTK Kwok, JWY Lam… - ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2018 - ACS Publications
The emergence of the aggregation-induced emission (AIE) concept significantly changes
the cognition of the scientific community toward classic photophysical phenomena. More …

Progress and trends in AIE-based bioprobes: a brief overview

J Mei, Y Huang, H Tian - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2017 - ACS Publications
Luminescent bioprobes are powerful analytical means for biosensing and optical imaging.
Luminogens featured with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) attributes have emerged as …

Tuning the singlet-triplet energy gap: a unique approach to efficient photosensitizers with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristics

S Xu, Y Yuan, X Cai, CJ Zhang, F Hu, J Liang… - Chemical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The efficiency of the intersystem crossing process can be improved by reducing the energy
gap between the singlet and triplet excited states (ΔEST), which offers the opportunity to …

Extracellular vesicles: the next generation of biomarkers for liquid biopsy-based prostate cancer diagnosis

B Pang, Y Zhu, J Ni, J Thompson, D Malouf… - …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Prostate cancer (PCa) is a leading cause of cancer death for males in western countries.
The current gold standard for PCa diagnosis-template needle biopsies-often does not …

AIEgens for biological process monitoring and disease theranostics

X Gu, RTK Kwok, JWY Lam, BZ Tang - Biomaterials, 2017 - Elsevier
Biological processes are of great significance for the normal physiological functions of living
organisms and closely related to the health. Monitoring of biological processes and …