Photothermal therapy and photoacoustic imaging via nanotheranostics in fighting cancer

Y Liu, P Bhattarai, Z Dai, X Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The nonradiative conversion of light energy into heat (photothermal therapy, PTT) or sound
energy (photoacoustic imaging, PAI) has been intensively investigated for the treatment and …

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 …

Inorganic–organic hybrid nanomaterials for photothermal antibacterial therapy

X Qi, Y **ang, E Cai, XX Ge, X Chen, W Zhang… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
The clinical management of bacterial infections has become a growing global public health
challenge. Such therapy is presently limited to antibiotics, but the misuse of antibiotics has …

BODIPY as a Multifunctional Theranostic Reagent in Biomedicine: Self‐Assembly, Properties, and Applications

HB Cheng, X Cao, S Zhang, K Zhang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Bioapplications of small molecule Aza-BODIPY: from rational structural design to in vivo investigations

Z Shi, X Han, W Hu, H Bai, B Peng, L Ji, Q Fan… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Boron-dipyrromethene (BODIPY) belongs to a family of organoboron compounds,
commercialized as fluorescent dyes by Invitrogen™. As BODIPY derivatives, Aza-boron …

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 …

Chemical design of activatable photoacoustic probes for precise biomedical applications

Y Liu, L Teng, B Yin, H Meng, X Yin, S Huan… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging technology, a three-dimensional hybrid imaging modality that
integrates the advantage of optical and acoustic imaging, has great application prospects in …

Antibacterial carbon‐based nanomaterials

Q **n, H Shah, A Nawaz, W **e, MZ Akram… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence and global spread of bacterial resistance to currently available antibiotics
underscore the urgent need for new alternative antibacterial agents. Recent studies on the …

Near-infrared-absorbing B–N lewis pair-functionalized anthracenes: electronic structure tuning, conformational isomerism, and applications in photothermal cancer …

K Liu, Z Jiang, RA Lalancette, X Tang… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
B–N-fused dianthracenylpyrazine derivatives are synthesized to generate new low gap
chromophores. Photophysical and electrochemical, crystal packing, and theoretical studies …

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 …