In recent years, marine natural pigments have emerged as a powerful alternative in the
various fields of food, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical industries because of their excellent …

Highlights•Liposomes as highly potent carriers for porphyrinoid photosensitizer
delivery.•Visudyne®–the first commercially available liposomal photosensitizer.• …

A kind of dual pH-responsive mesoporous silica nanoparticle (MSN)-based drug delivery
system, which can respond to the cancer extracellular and intercellular pH stimuli, has been …

A novel star‐shaped polymer, porphyrin‐poly (L‐lysine) dendrons (PP‐PLLD), is
synthesized by the click reaction between azido‐modified porphyrin and propargyl focal …

Photosensitization has a wide range of applications in vastly distant fields. Three key
components must be present at the same time to trigger the related photodynamic effect …

Lipid models such as monolayers, vesicles, and planar bilayers have been developed to
better understand the physicochemical and biophysical properties of biological membranes …

Understanding the partitioning of organic molecules between aqueous solution and lipid
membranes is critical to problems in fields ranging from drug design to environmental …

The photodynamic effect requires the simultaneous presence of light, photosensitizer (PS)
and molecular oxygen. In this process, the photoinduced damage of cells is caused by …

We performed a systematic study on the spectroscopic and aggregation properties of
stoichiometric mixtures (1: 4) of the tetracationic meso‐tetrakis (4‐N‐methylpyridinium) …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) represents a therapeutic modality which requires the
concerted action of three key elements: a photosensitizer (Sens), visible-light wavelengths …