Abstract Singlet oxygen (1 O 2) is molecular oxygen in the excited state with high energy
and electrophilic properties. It is widely found in nature, and its important role is gradually …

The twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) mechanism has guided the development
of numerous bright and sensitive fluorophores. This review briefly overviews the history of …

The use of boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY) in biomedicine is reviewed. To open, its
synthesis and regulatory strategies are summarized, and inspiring cutting‐edge work in post …

Phototheranostics represents a promising direction for modern precision medicine, which
has recently attracted great research interest from multidisciplinary research areas. Organic …

In recent years, BODIPY-based theranostics have increasingly been used in cancer therapy
and have achieved significant success. According to photochemical theories, the optical …

Conspectus Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a clinically approved therapeutic modality that
has shown great potential for the treatment of cancers owing to its excellent spatiotemporal …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a promising therapeutic approach for anticancer and
antibacterial treatment via photoinduced reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation …

Despite the clinical success of photodynamic therapy (PDT), the application of this medical
technique is intrinsically limited by the low oxygen concentrations found in cancer tumors …

The exciton, an excited electron–hole pair bound by Coulomb attraction, plays a key role in
photophysics of organic molecules and drives practically important phenomena such as …

BODIPYs are renowned fluorescent dyes with strong and tunable absorption in the visible
region, high thermal and photo-stability and exceptional fluorescence quantum yields …