Afterglow materials are attracting widespread attention owing to their distinctive and long-
lived optical emission properties which create exciting opportunities in various fields. Recent …

Chemotherapy is widely recognized as an effective approach for treating cancer due to its
ability to eliminate cancer cells using chemotherapeutic drugs. However, traditional …

Photodynamic therapy is an alternative treatment mainly for cancer but also for bacterial
infections. This treatment dates back to 1900 when a German medical school graduate …

We report a cationic porphyrin 5, 10, 15, 20‐tetrakis‐(4‐N‐methylpyridyl)‐porphyrin (TMPyP)
that can respond to specific bacteria, followed by adaptable photodynamic/photothermal …

Diarylethene (DAE) photoswitches, known for their reversible photoinduced cyclization and
cycloreversion reactions, have shown great promise in various fields such as optical data …

We report a supramolecular naphthalene diimide (NDI) radical anion with efficient NIR‐II
photothermal conversion for E. coli‐responsive photothermal therapy. The supramolecular …

Synergistic phototherapy provides a promising strategy to conquer the hypoxia and
heterogeneity of tumors and realize a better therapeutic effect than monomodal …

Photosensitizer-based photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been considered as a promising
modality for fighting diverse types of cancers. PDT directly inhibits local tumors by a …

Bacteria can cause numerous infectious diseases and has been a major threat to human
humans. Although antibiotics have partially succeeded in treating bacteria, owing to …

Cyanine dyes have been widely used in phototherapy in recent years due to their excellent
optical properties and diverse modifiable structures. This review provides detailed …