Metal ions are ubiquitous in nature and play significant roles in assembling functional
materials in fields spanning chemistry, biology, and materials science. Metal–phenolic …

Second near-infrared photothermal therapy (NIR-II PTT, 1000–1500 nm) has recently
emerged as a new phototherapeutic modality with the advantages of deeper penetration …

Photothermal therapy (PTT) has been widely applied in cancer therapy as a result of its non-
invasive, localized treatment and good therapeutic effect. In general, the final therapeutic …

Nanomedicine in combination with immunotherapy offers opportunities to treat cancer in a
safe and effective manner; however, remote control of immune response with spatiotemporal …

Despite its growing promise in cancer treatment, ferrotherapy has low therapeutic efficacy
due to compromised Fenton catalytic efficiency in tumor milieu. We herein report a hybrid …

Traditional photothermal therapy requires high‐intensity laser excitation for cancer
treatments due to the low photothermal conversion efficiency (PCE) of photothermal agents …

The nonradiative conversion of light energy into heat (photothermal therapy, PTT) or sound
energy (photoacoustic imaging, PAI) has been intensively investigated for the treatment and …

Phenolics are ubiquitous in nature and have gained immense research attention because of
their unique physiochemical properties and widespread industrial use. In recent decades …

Biophotonics as a highly interdisciplinary frontier often requires the assistance of optical
agents to control the light pathways in cells, tissues and living organisms for specific …

Inspired by the mechanism of mussel adhesion, polydopamine (PDA), a versatile polymer
for surface modification has been discovered. Owing to its unique properties like …