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 …

Design of superior phototheranostic agents guided by Jablonski diagrams

G Feng, GQ Zhang, D Ding - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Phototheranostics represents a promising direction for modern precision medicine, which
has recently attracted great research interest from multidisciplinary research areas. Organic …

Carbon-based nanozymes: Design, catalytic mechanism, and bioapplication

Y Sun, B Xu, X Pan, H Wang, Q Wu, S Li, B Jiang… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Carbon-based nanomaterials with enzyme-like activity are new candidates in materials
science. So far, various carbon-based nanozymes have been developed, such as …

Superoxide dismutase nanozymes: an emerging star for anti-oxidation

H Zhao, R Zhang, X Yan, K Fan - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Superoxide dismutases (SODs) are a group of metalloenzymes that catalyze the dismutation
of superoxide radicals (O2˙−) into hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and oxygen (O2). As the first …

Nanozymes: activity origin, catalytic mechanism, and biological application

W Yang, X Yang, L Zhu, H Chu, X Li, W Xu - Coordination Chemistry …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nanozymes are nanomaterials with excellent enzyme-like characteristics. Compared with
natural enzymes, nanozymes possess significant advantages, such as low cost, high …

Relationships among smoking, oxidative stress, inflammation, macromolecular damage, and cancer

AW Caliri, S Tommasi, A Besaratinia - Mutation Research/Reviews in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Smoking is a major risk factor for a variety of diseases, including cancer and immune-
mediated inflammatory diseases. Tobacco smoke contains a mixture of chemicals, including …

Nanozymes: versatile platforms for cancer diagnosis and therapy

X Zhang, X Chen, Y Zhao - Nano-Micro Letters, 2022 - Springer
Natural enzymes usually suffer from high production cost, ease of denaturation and
inactivation, and low yield, making them difficult to be broadly applicable. As an emerging …

Cationization-enhanced type I and type II ROS generation for photodynamic treatment of drug-resistant bacteria

S Liu, B Wang, Y Yu, Y Liu, Z Zhuang, Z Zhao, G Feng… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Photodynamic therapy as an emerging phototheranostic approach holds great potential for
antibacterial treatment, but is limited by compromised reactive oxygen species (ROS) …

Nanozyme: new horizons for responsive biomedical applications

D Jiang, D Ni, ZT Rosenkrans, P Huang… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanozymes are nanomaterial-based artificial enzymes. By effectively mimicking catalytic
sites of natural enzymes or harboring multivalent elements for reactions, nanozyme systems …

Nanomaterials with enzyme-like characteristics (nanozymes): next-generation artificial enzymes (II)

J Wu, X Wang, Q Wang, Z Lou, S Li, Y Zhu… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanozymes are nanomaterials with enzyme-like characteristics (Chem. Soc. Rev., 2013, 42,
6060–6093). They have been developed to address the limitations of natural enzymes and …