Emerging strategies in enhancing singlet oxygen generation of nano-photosensitizers toward advanced phototherapy

M Tavakkoli Yaraki, B Liu, YN Tan - Nano-Micro Letters, 2022 - Springer
The great promise of photodynamic therapy (PDT) has thrusted the rapid progress of
developing highly effective photosensitizers (PS) in killing cancerous cells and bacteria. To …

Gold nanoparticles in diagnostics and therapeutics for human cancer

P Singh, S Pandit, V Mokkapati, A Garg… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
The application of nanotechnology for the treatment of cancer is mostly based on early tumor
detection and diagnosis by nanodevices capable of selective targeting and delivery of …

Plasmonic heating of nanostructures

L Jauffred, A Samadi, H Klingberg, PM Bendix… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The absorption of light by plasmonic nanostructures and their associated temperature
increase are exquisitely sensitive to the shape and composition of the structure and to the …

Nanotechnology for multimodal synergistic cancer therapy

W Fan, B Yung, P Huang, X Chen - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
The complexity, diversity, and heterogeneity of tumors seriously undermine the therapeutic
potential of treatment. Therefore, the current trend in clinical research has gradually shifted …

Nanomaterials as photothermal therapeutic agents

J Chen, C Ning, Z Zhou, P Yu, Y Zhu, G Tan… - Progress in materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
Curing cancer has been one of the greatest conundrums in the modern medical field. To
reduce side-effects associated with the traditional cancer therapy such as radiotherapy and …

The basic properties of gold nanoparticles and their applications in tumor diagnosis and treatment

X Bai, Y Wang, Z Song, Y Feng, Y Chen… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have been widely studied and applied in the field of tumor
diagnosis and treatment because of their special fundamental properties. In order to make …

Overcoming the Achilles' heel of photodynamic therapy

W Fan, P Huang, X Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been applied to treat a wide range of medical conditions,
including wet age-related macular degeneration psoriasis, atherosclerosis, viral infection …

Recent advances in functional nanomaterials for light–triggered cancer therapy

S Gai, G Yang, P Yang, F He, J Lin, D Jin, B Xing - Nano today, 2018 - Elsevier
Photo–triggered therapeutic modalities for cancer have attracted enormous attention in
recent years due to the easily focused and tuned properties of irradiation light that enable …

Defect‐rich adhesive nanozymes as efficient antibiotics for enhanced bacterial inhibition

F Cao, L Zhang, H Wang, Y You… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Nanozymes have emerged as a new generation of antibiotics with exciting broad‐spectrum
antimicrobial properties and negligible biotoxicities. However, their antibacterial efficacies …

Chemical design and synthesis of functionalized probes for imaging and treating tumor hypoxia

J Liu, W Bu, J Shi - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Hypoxia development in tumor is closely associated with its increased aggressiveness and
strong resistance to therapy, leading to the poor prognosis in several cancer types …