Recent strategies to develop innovative photosensitizers for enhanced photodynamic therapy

TC Pham, VN Nguyen, Y Choi, S Lee, J Yoon - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
This review presents a robust strategy to design photosensitizers (PSs) for various species.
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a photochemical-based treatment approach that involves the …

Recent development of heavy-atom-free triplet photosensitizers: molecular structure design, photophysics and application

X Zhang, Z Wang, Y Hou, Y Yan, J Zhao… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Triplet photosensitizers (PSs) have attracted much attention in recent years, due to the
significance of these kinds of compounds in fundamental photochemistry studies and …

Boosting photocatalytic hydrogen evolution via triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion

S Liu, H Liu, Y Hu, C Zhao, H Huang, G Yu, Z Li… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
To enhance the light-harvesting ability of photocatalytic splitting water system, triplet–triplet
annihilation upconversion (TTA-UC) is integrated with photocatalysis directly for the first time …

Ultrafast transient infrared spectroscopy for probing trapping states in hybrid perovskite films

AM El-Zohry, B Turedi, A Alsalloum, P Maity… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Studying the charge dynamics of perovskite materials is a crucial step to understand the
outstanding performance of these materials in various fields. Herein, we utilize transient …

Recent development of heavy atom-free triplet photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy

X Xiao, K Ye, M Imran, J Zhao - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an attractive method for cancer treatment. Triplet
photosensitizers (PSs) are critical for this method; upon photoexcitation, efficient intersystem …

Spiro rhodamine-perylene compact electron donor–acceptor dyads: Conformation restriction, charge separation, and spin–orbit charge transfer intersystem crossing

M Hu, AA Sukhanov, X Zhang, A Elmali… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Spiro rhodamine (Rho)-perylene (Pery) electron donor–acceptor dyads were prepared to
study the spin–orbit charge transfer intersystem crossing (SOCT-ISC) in these rigid and …

Chromophore Orientation-Dependent Photophysical Properties of Pyrene–Naphthalimide Compact Electron Donor–Acceptor Dyads: Electron Transfer and …

M Imran, AA Sukhanov, P Maity, A Elmali… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In order to study the effect of mutual orientation of the chromophores in compact electron
donor–acceptor dyads on the spin-orbit charge transfer intersystem crossing (SOCT-ISC) …

A near-infrared and lysosomal targeting thiophene-BODIPY photosensitizer: Synthesis and its imaging guided photodynamic therapy of cancer cells

J Bai, L Zhang, Y Qian - Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, a novel NIR and lysosomal targeting thiophene-BODIPY photosensitizer SBOP-
Lyso was synthesized to explore its potential applications in photodynamic therapy of A549 …

Bis [1] benzothieno [1, 4] thiaborins as a Platform for BODIPY Singlet Oxygen Photosensitizers

PH Marek‐Urban, KA Urbanowicz… - … A European Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A synthetic approach to two regioisomeric π‐electron extended [1, 4] thiaborins annulated
with two benzothiophene units has been developed. The central thiaborin rings of the …

Modulating the intersystem crossing mechanism of anthracene carboxyimide-based photosensitizers via structural adjustments and application as a potent …

H Liang, L Tang, J He, J Li, Z Chen, S Cai… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Herein, a series of compact anthracene carboxyimide (ACI) based donor–acceptor dyads
were prepared by substituting bulky aryl moieties with various electron-donating ability to …