Optical and photonic technologies play an important role in human progress. The bending of
light to our will has not only enabled our biological self-discovery, but has also allowed us to …

Conspectus Together with the simultaneous development of nanomaterials and molecular
biology, the bionano interface brings about various applications of hybrid nanoparticles in …

Photodynamic therapy has emerged as an alternative to chemotherapy and radiotherapy for
cancer treatment. Nanoparticles have recently been proposed as effective carriers for …

Nanotherapeutics has an increasing role in the treatment of diseases such as cancer. In
photodynamic therapy (PDT) a therapeutically inactive photosensitizer compound is …

Nanoparticles (NPs) play a key role in nanomedicine in multimodal imaging, drug delivery
and targeted therapy of human diseases. Consequently, due to the attractive properties of …

This article gives an overview of the various kinds of nanoparticles (NPs) that are widely
used for purposes of fluorescent imaging, mainly of cells and tissues. Following an …

Cancer has been one of the major threats to the lives of human beings for centuries.(1)
Current cancer therapies mainly include surgery, chemotherapies, and radiotherapies …

The growing demand for effective delivery of photosensitive active compounds has resulted
in the development of colloid chemistry and nanotechnology. Recently, many kinds of novel …

The highly tunable physical and optical properties and the ability to bind an ever expanding
library of ligands have catapulted nanoparticles into nearly every discipline of scientific …

Conspectus “Smart” stimuli-responsive nanomaterials are becoming popular as targeted
delivery systems because they allow the use of internal or external stimuli to achieve spatial …