Organic photosensitizers for antimicrobial phototherapy

VN Nguyen, Z Zhao, BZ Tang, J Yoon - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Microbial infectious diseases, especially those caused by new and antibiotic-resistant
pathogenic microbes, have become a significant threat to global human health. As an …

Design of superior phototheranostic agents guided by Jablonski diagrams

G Feng, GQ Zhang, D Ding - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Phototheranostics represents a promising direction for modern precision medicine, which
has recently attracted great research interest from multidisciplinary research areas. Organic …

NIR light‐driving barrier‐free group rotation in nanoparticles with an 88.3% photothermal conversion efficiency for photothermal therapy

D **, M **ao, J Cao, L Zhao, N Xu, S Long… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Traditional photothermal therapy requires high‐intensity laser excitation for cancer
treatments due to the low photothermal conversion efficiency (PCE) of photothermal agents …

Molecular motion in aggregates: manipulating TICT for boosting photothermal theranostics

S Liu, X Zhou, H Zhang, H Ou, JWY Lam… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Planar donor and acceptor (D–A) conjugated structures are generally believed to be the
standard for architecting highly efficient photothermal theranostic agents, in order to restrict …

pH-activatable organic nanoparticles for efficient low-temperature photothermal therapy of ocular bacterial infection

K Zhu, S Qian, H Guo, Q Wang, X Chu, X Wang, S Lu… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Low-temperature photothermal therapy (PTT) systems constructed by integrating organic
photothermal agents with other bactericidal components that initiate bacterial apoptosis at …

Designing high-efficiency light-to-thermal conversion materials for solar desalination and photothermal catalysis

H Jiang, X Liu, D Wang, Z Qiao, D Wang… - Journal of Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Light-to-thermal conversion materials (LTCMs) have been of great interest to researchers
due to their impressive energy conversion capacity and wide range of applications in …

Evolution of BODIPY as triplet photosensitizers from homogeneous to heterogeneous: The strategies of functionalization to various forms and their recent applications

D Wang, X Wang, S Zhou, P Gu, X Zhu, C Wang… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
The BODIPY chromophore is one of the most versatile fluorophore building blocks in various
research fields, especially in life science and material science. It has attracted substantial …

Small molecular NIR-II fluorophores for cancer phototheranostics

H Dai, Q Shen, J Shao, W Wang, F Gao, X Dong - The Innovation, 2021 - cell.com
Phototheranostics integrates deep-tissue imaging with phototherapy (containing
photothermal therapy and photodynamic therapy), holding great promise in early diagnosis …

Organic photo-antimicrobials: Principles, molecule design, and applications

B Ran, Z Wang, W Cai, L Ran, W **a… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The emergence of multi-drug-resistant pathogens threatens the healthcare systems world-
wide. Recent advances in phototherapy (PT) approaches mediated by photo-antimicrobials …

Thermal‐responsive MXene‐DNA hydrogel for near‐infrared light triggered localized photothermal‐chemo synergistic cancer therapy

PP He, X Du, Y Cheng, Q Gao, C Liu, X Wang, Y Wei… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Stimuli‐responsive DNA hydrogels are promising candidates for cancer treatment, as they
not only possess biocompatible and biodegradable 3D network structures as highly efficient …