Impurity doping is a promising method to impart new properties to various materials. Due to
their unique optical, magnetic, and electrical properties, rare-earth ions have been …

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 …

Abstract Although two-dimensional (2D) layered double hydroxides (LDHs) have been
widely used as efficient nanoagents for biological diagnosis and treatment, they have been …

Cancer has been one of the most common life‐threatening diseases for a long time.
Traditional cancer therapies such as surgery, chemotherapy (CT), and radiotherapy (RT) …

The attractive features of lanthanide-doped upconversion luminescence (UCL), such as high
photostability, nonphotobleaching or photoblinking, and large anti-Stokes shift, have shown …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has become a promising cancer treatment approach with
superior advantages. However, it remains a grand challenge to develop tumor …

Some infectious or malignant diseases such as cancers are seriously threatening the health
of human beings all over the world. The commonly used antibiotic therapy cannot effectively …

Chemodynamic therapy (CDT) is an emerging cancer treatment strategy that uses CDT
agents to convert hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2) into the hydroxyl radical (radical dotOH), the …

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 …

The therapeutic effect of reactive oxygen species (ROS)-involved cancer therapies is
significantly limited by shortage of oxy-substrates, such as hypoxia in photodynamic therapy …