Bottlebrush polymers (BBPs) have emerged as intriguing class of materials for an array of
applications, including supersoft elastomers, organic optoelectronics, templates for crafting …

Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the United States, trailing only heart
disease in incidence. Despite significant worldwide investment in research, cancer remains …

Speed, resolution and sensitivity of today's fluorescence bioimaging can be drastically
improved by fluorescent nanoparticles (NPs) that are many‐fold brighter than organic dyes …

Bottlebrush polymers are a type of branched or graft polymer with polymeric side-chains
attached to a linear backbone, and the unusual architectures of bottlebrushes provide a …

Nanotheranostics is fast-growing pharmaceutical technology for simultaneously monitoring
drug release and its distribution, and to evaluate the real time therapeutic efficacy through a …

The development of controlled/living polymerization methodologies has underpinned a
rapid expanse in our understanding of amphiphilic block copolymer self-assembly. In …

It is highly desired that satisfactory photoactive agents with ideal photophysical
characteristics are explored for potent cancer phototherapeutics. Herein, bifunctional …

Stimuli-responsive multimodality imaging agents have broad potential in medical
diagnostics. Herein, we report the development of a new class of branched-bottlebrush …

Nature shows us that complex molecular architectures lead to unique material properties,
and these observations have driven polymer scientists to synthesize complex architectures …

Unlike metal nanoparticles (eg, Au nanorods) and p-doped semiconductors (eg, Cu2− xS)
with surface plasmon resonance, this type of nanoparticles can generate NIR absorbance …