Overcoming barriers in photodynamic therapy harnessing nano-formulation strategies

J **e, Y Wang, W Choi, P Jangili, Y Ge, Y Xu… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been extensively investigated for decades for tumor
treatment because of its non-invasiveness, spatiotemporal selectivity, lower side-effects, and …

Recent progress of quantum dots for energy storage applications

Q Xu, Y Niu, J Li, Z Yang, J Gao, L Ding, H Ni, P Zhu… - Carbon Neutrality, 2022 - Springer
The environmental problems of global warming and fossil fuel depletion are increasingly
severe, and the demand for energy conversion and storage is increasing. Ecological issues …

[HTML][HTML] Light technology for efficient and effective photodynamic therapy: a critical review

JF Algorri, M Ochoa, P Roldan-Varona… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a promising treatment for cancerous
tumours in which light technologies play a crucial role. An attempt to answer a long-standing …

Overcoming the Achilles' heel of photodynamic therapy

W Fan, P Huang, X Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been applied to treat a wide range of medical conditions,
including wet age-related macular degeneration psoriasis, atherosclerosis, viral infection …

Towards translational optogenetics

A Bansal, S Shikha, Y Zhang - Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2023 - nature.com
Optogenetics is widely used to interrogate the neural circuits underlying disease and has
most recently been harnessed for therapeutic applications. The optogenetic toolkit consists …

Shining carbon dots: Synthesis and biomedical and optoelectronic applications

F Yuan, S Li, Z Fan, X Meng, L Fan, S Yang - Nano Today, 2016 - Elsevier
In recent years, the emerging fluorescent carbon dots have shown enormous potentials for
biomedical and optoelectronic applications owing to their outstanding characteristics such …

Carbon quantum dots and their applications

SY Lim, W Shen, Z Gao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluorescent carbon nanoparticles or carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are a new class of carbon
nanomaterials that have emerged recently and have garnered much interest as potential …

[HTML][HTML] Application of porphyrins in antibacterial photodynamic therapy

BM Amos-Tautua, SP Songca, OS Oluwafemi - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Antibiotics are commonly used to control, treat, or prevent bacterial infections, however
bacterial resistance to all known classes of traditional antibiotics has greatly increased in the …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon dots: large-scale synthesis, sensing and bioimaging

J Zhang, SH Yu - Materials Today, 2016 - Elsevier
Emerging as a potent alternative to classical metal-based semiconductor quantum dots
(Qdots), carbon dots (Cdots) possess the distinctive advantages of convenient synthesis …

Two-photon excitation nanoparticles for photodynamic therapy

Y Shen, AJ Shuhendler, D Ye, JJ Xu… - Chemical Society …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Two-photon excitation (TPE) nanoparticle-based photosensitizers (PSs) that combine the
advantages of TPE and nanotechnology have emerged as attractive therapeutic agents for …