The major challenge in current chemotherapy is to increase local effective therapeutic
concentration of drugs as well as to minimize toxicity and side effects for patients. The …

Cancer treatment using conventional drug delivery platforms may lead to fatal damage to
normal cells. Among various intelligent delivery platforms, photoresponsive delivery …

Targeted drug delivery using functional nanoparticles has provided new strategies for
improving therapeutic efficacy while concurrently minimizing toxicity. Photodynamic therapy …

A perfect “off” to “on” switch of the therapeutic function is very important to minimize the
phototoxicity of nanoplatforms assisted imaging-guided photodynamic therapy (PDT) of …

Efficient control over drug release is critical to increasing drug efficacy and avoiding side
effects. An ideal drug delivery system would deliver drugs in the right amount, at the right …

Phototrigger‐controlled drug‐release devices (PDDs) can be conveniently manipulated by
light to obtain on‐demand release patterns, thereby affording an improved therapeutic …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a non-invasive treatment modality for a variety of diseases
including cancer. PDT based on upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) has received much …

Due to the unique properties of lanthanide-doped upconverting nanoparticles (UCNP) under
near-infrared (NIR) light, the last decade has shown a sharp progress in their biomedicine …

Upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) that emit high-energy photons upon excitation by the
low-energy near-infrared (NIR) light are emerging as new optical nano-probes useful in …

Upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) are a class of optical nanocrystals doped with
lanthanide ions that offer great promise for applications in controllable tumor therapy. In …