Light has profoundly impacted modern medicine and healthcare, with numerous
luminescent agents and imaging techniques currently being used to assess health and treat …

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 …

Oral infectious diseases and tooth staining, the main challenges of dental healthcare, are
inextricably linked to microbial colonization and the formation of pathogenic biofilms …

Micro-/nanorobots (MNRs) can be autonomously propelled on demand in complex
biological environments and thus may bring revolutionary changes to biomedicines …

Noncancerous diseases include a wide plethora of medical conditions beyond cancer and
are a major cause of mortality around the world. Despite progresses in clinical research …

Phototheranostics is a potential area for precision medicine, which has received increasing
attention for antibacterial applications. Integrating all phototheranostic modalities in a single …

Antimicrobial peptides hold promise to supplement small molecules antibiotics and combat
the multidrug resistant microbes. There are however technical hurdles towards the clinical …

Although photothermal therapy (PTT) has thrived as a promising treatment for drug-resistant
bacterial infections by avoiding the abuse of antibiotics, the remaining challenges that limit …

Photothermal therapy (PTT) and photodynamic therapy (PDT) have garnered much attention
for effectively treating biofilm infections. However, even highly efficient PTT reagents and …

The aggregation-induced emission photosensitizer (AIE PS) has stood out as an alternative
and competent candidate in bacterial theranostics, particularly with the use of cationic AIE …