Advances in nanomaterials for photodynamic therapy applications: Status and challenges

J Chen, T Fan, Z Xie, Q Zeng, P Xue, T Zheng, Y Chen… - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
Photodynamic therapy (PDT), as a non-invasive therapeutic modality that is alternative to
radiotherapy and chemotherapy, is extensively investigated for cancer treatments. Although …

Smart nanomaterials in cancer theranostics: challenges and opportunities

BK Kashyap, VV Singh, MK Solanki, A Kumar… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cancer is ranked as the second leading cause of death globally. Traditional cancer
therapies including chemotherapy are flawed, with off-target and on-target toxicities on the …

Functionalized graphene oxide as a vehicle for targeted drug delivery and bioimaging applications

N Karki, H Tiwari, C Tewari, A Rana… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Graphene oxide (GO) has attracted tremendous attention as a most promising nanomaterial
among the carbon family since it emerged as a polynomial functional tool with rational …

Recent advances in carbon based nanosystems for cancer theranostics

S Augustine, J Singh, M Srivastava, M Sharma… - Biomaterials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
One of the major challenges in our contemporary society is to facilitate healthy life for all
human beings. In this context, cancer has become one of the most deadly diseases around …

Carbon-based materials for photodynamic therapy: A mini-review

D Lu, R Tao, Z Wang - Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, 2019 - Springer
Carbon-based materials have been extensively applied in photodynamic therapy owing to
the unique optical characteristics, good biocompatibility and tunable systematic toxicity. This …

Zero-, one-and two-dimensional carbon nanomaterials as low-cost catalysts in optical and electrochemical sensing of biomolecules and environmental pollutants

NSK Gowthaman, M Amalraj, S Kesavan… - Microchemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
An arousing attention on carbon-based nanomaterials in the last two decades research is
mainly owing to their exceptional opto-electronic properties besides their superior chemical …

Non-oncologic applications of nanomedicine-based photo-therapy

SW Yoo, G Oh, JC Ahn, E Chung - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Phototherapy is widely applied to various human diseases. Nanomedicine-based
phototherapy can be classified into photodynamic therapy (PDT) and photothermal therapy …

Advances in carbon nanomaterials for immunotherapy

S Azevedo, R Costa-Almeida, SG Santos… - Applied Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Remarkable advances have been achieved in the field of nanomedicine and
immunotherapy, since it was found that several nanomaterials can modulate the immune …

Nanocomposite polymer scaffolds responding under external stimuli for drug delivery and tissue engineering applications

D Mertz, S Harlepp, J Goetz, D Bégin… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The blossoming development of nanomaterials and polymer science has opened the way
toward new biocompatible scaffolds responding remotely to external stimuli (magnetic field …

Biomaterials-based formulations and surfaces to combat viral infectious diseases

S Kumari, K Chatterjee - APL bioengineering, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Rapidly growing viral infections are potent risks to public health worldwide. Accessible virus-
specific antiviral vaccines and drugs are therapeutically inert to emerging viruses, such as …