Light has profoundly impacted modern medicine and healthcare, with numerous
luminescent agents and imaging techniques currently being used to assess health and treat …

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 …

The most common working mechanism of photodynamic therapy is based on high-toxicity
singlet oxygen, which is called Type II photodynamic therapy. But it is highly dependent on …

The concept of aggregation‐induced emission (AIE) has opened new opportunities in many
research fields. Motivated by the unique feature of AIE fluorogens (AIEgens), during the past …

Image-guided photodynamic therapy (PDT) can realize highly precise and effective therapy
via the integration of imaging and therapy, and has created high requirements for …

Cationic photosensitizers have good binding ability with negatively charged bacteria and
fungi, exhibiting broad applications potential in antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) …

Pyroptosis as a lytic and inflammatory form of cell death is a powerful tool to fight against
cancer. However, pyroptosis is usually activated by chemotherapeutic drugs, which limits its …

Despite metal‐based photosensitizers showing great potential in photodynamic therapy for
tumor treatment, the application of the photosensitizers is intrinsically limited by their poor …

Cancer remains a serious threat to human health owing to the lack of effective treatments.
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has emerged as a promising non-invasive cancer treatment …

Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) has become a fundamental tool in modern
therapeutics, notably due to the expanding versatility of photosensitizers (PSs) and the …