Aggregation-induced emission (AIE), life and health

H Wang, Q Li, P Alam, H Bai, V Bhalla, MR Bryce… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Light has profoundly impacted modern medicine and healthcare, with numerous
luminescent agents and imaging techniques currently being used to assess health and treat …

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 …

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 …

Organometallic anti-tumor agents: targeting from biomolecules to dynamic bioprocesses

K Peng, Y Zheng, W **a, ZW Mao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The great clinical success of cisplatin and its derivatives has convinced people that metal
complexes could play a more significant role in human cancer therapy. However, targeting …

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 …

Ferroptosis‐enhanced cancer immunity by a ferrocene‐appended iridium (III) Diphosphine complex

WJ Wang, YY Ling, YM Zhong, ZY Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ferroptosis is a programmed cell death pathway discovered in recent years, and ferroptosis‐
inducing agents have great potential as new antitumor candidates. Here, we report a IrIII …

Organelle-targeted photosensitizers for precision photodynamic therapy

R Wang, X Li, J Yoon - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021 - ACS Publications
Subcellular organelles are the cornerstones of cells, and destroying them will cause cell
dysfunction and even death. Therefore, realizing precise organelle targeting of …

The development of anticancer ruthenium (II) complexes: from single molecule compounds to nanomaterials

L Zeng, P Gupta, Y Chen, E Wang, L Ji… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Cancer is rapidly becoming the top killer in the world. Most of the FDA approved anticancer
drugs are organic molecules, while metallodrugs are very scarce. The advent of the first …

Organelle-targeted therapies: a comprehensive review on system design for enabling precision oncology

J Yang, A Griffin, Z Qiang, J Ren - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer is a major threat to human health. Among various treatment methods, precision
therapy has received significant attention since the inception, due to its ability to efficiently …

Dynamic assembly of DNA nanostructures in living cells for mitochondrial interference

F Li, Y Liu, Y Dong, Y Chu, N Song… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Constructing artificial dynamic architectures inside cells to rationally interfere with organelles
is emerging as an efficient strategy to regulate the behaviors and fate of cells, thus providing …