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 …

Metal agents have made incredible strides in preclinical research and clinical applications in
recent years, but their short emission/absorption wavelengths continue to be a barrier to …

With the serendipitous discovery of crown ethers by Pedersen more than half a century ago
and the subsequent introduction of host–guest chemistry and supramolecular chemistry by …

Organic photothermal agents have received increasing attention in the past few decades
due to their excellent biocompatibility and flexible chemical modification and …

Ruthenium complexes are emerging as potential complements to platinum drugs. They also
show promise as photo-diagnostic and therapeutic agents. However, most ruthenium …

In the past decade, the metallacycles/metallacages have attracted unremitting interest in
biomedical fields, yet visual tracking of their in vivo delivery, targeting ability, biodistribution …

Boron dipyrromethene, commonly known as BODIPY, based metal–organic macrocycles
(MOCs) and metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) represent an interesting part of materials …

During the past few years, the construction of BODIPY-based macrocycles has attracted
extensive interest due to the widespread applications of these materials in sensing …

Abstract Aza-boron-dipyrromethenes (Aza-BODIPYs) are a class of dyes that display
absorption and emission covering visible to NIR region. They can show NIR emission in the …

Platinum-based coordination chemistry has laid the foundation for the development of
numerous metal complexes and provoked their applications in cancer chemotherapy. It is …