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 …

Photoacoustic imaging: contrast agents and their biomedical applications

Q Fu, R Zhu, J Song, H Yang, X Chen - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging as a fast‐developing imaging technique has great potential in
biomedical and clinical applications. It is a noninvasive imaging modality that depends on …

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 …

Rejuvenated photodynamic therapy for bacterial infections

Q Jia, Q Song, P Li, W Huang - Advanced healthcare materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of multidrug resistant bacterial strains has hastened the exploration of
advanced microbicides and antibacterial techniques. Photodynamic antibacterial therapy …

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 …

Light: a magical tool for controlled drug delivery

Y Tao, HF Chan, B Shi, M Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Light is a particularly appealing tool for on‐demand drug delivery due to its noninvasive
nature, ease of application, and exquisite temporal and spatial control. Great progress is …

Versatile types of organic/inorganic nanohybrids: from strategic design to biomedical applications

N Zhao, L Yan, X Zhao, X Chen, A Li, D Zheng… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Organic/inorganic nanohybrids have attracted widespread interests due to their favorable
properties and promising applications in biomedical areas. Great efforts have been made to …

Hyaluronic acid and albumin based nanoparticles for drug delivery

C Lei, XR Liu, QB Chen, Y Li, JL Zhou, LY Zhou… - Journal of Controlled …, 2021 - Elsevier
Albumin, a multifunctional protein, is widely used to prepare nanocarriers. Hyaluronic acid
(HA) is a natural glycosaminoglycan that can specifically bind receptors, such as cluster of …

Design of one-for-all near-infrared aggregation-induced emission nanoaggregates for boosting theranostic efficacy

H Xie, Z Bi, J Yin, Z Li, L Hu, C Zhang, J Zhang… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Fluorescence-guided phototherapy, including photodynamic and photothermal therapy, is
considered an emerging noninvasive strategy for cancer treatments. Organic molecules are …

Single-micelle-directed synthesis of mesoporous materials

T Zhao, A Elzatahry, X Li, D Zhao - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
Functional mesoporous materials with multilevel architectures, ranging from 0D to 3D, are
typically prepared using surfactant-templating methods. In these methods, surfactants first …