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 …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies for preparing albumin-based nanoparticles for multifunctional bioimaging and drug delivery

FF An, XH Zhang - Theranostics, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Biosafety is the primary concern in clinical translation of nanomedicine. As an intrinsic
ingredient of human blood without immunogenicity and encouraged by its successful clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Polymer bioconjugates: Modern design concepts toward precision hybrid materials

C Chen, DYW Ng, T Weil - Progress in Polymer Science, 2020 - Elsevier
The conjugation of synthetic polymers with various biomolecules provides an easy access to
biohybrid materials which combine advantages from both the synthetic world and Nature …

Mitochondria targeted protein-ruthenium photosensitizer for efficient photodynamic applications

S Chakrabortty, BK Agrawalla, A Stumper… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Organelle-targeted photosensitization represents a promising approach in photodynamic
therapy where the design of the active photosensitizer (PS) is very crucial. In this work, we …

Luminescent quantum dots as platforms for probing in vitro and in vivo biological processes

H Mattoussi, G Palui, HB Na - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
In this report we review some of the recent progress made for enhancing the biocompatibility
of luminescent quantum dots (QDs) and for developing targeted bio-inspired applications …

Fluorescent Ag clusters via a protein-directed approach as a Hg (II) ion sensor

C Guo, J Irudayaraj - Analytical chemistry, 2011 - ACS Publications
Proteins have proven to be particularly attractive as effective ligands in the synthesis of nano-
and subnanoscaled materials because of their multiple chelating and functional groups …

Quantum dots, lighting up the research and development of nanomedicine

Y Wang, L Chen - Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, 2011 - Elsevier
Quantum dots (QDs) have proven themselves as powerful inorganic fluorescent probes,
especially for long term, multiplexed imaging and detection. The newly developed QDs …

Protein-directed synthesis of pH-responsive red fluorescent copper nanoclusters and their applications in cellular imaging and catalysis

C Wang, C Wang, L Xu, H Cheng, Q Lin, C Zhang - Nanoscale, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of functional copper nanoclusters (Cu NCs) is becoming increasingly
widespread in consumer technologies due to their applications in cellular imaging and …

[HTML][HTML] Fluorescent pH nanosensors: Design strategies and applications

M Shamsipur, A Barati, Z Nematifar - Journal of Photochemistry and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Accurate measuring of pH is of great significance for various research areas ranging from
environmental to chemical and biological sciences. In the past decades, there has been …

Polymer-coated quantum dots

N Tomczak, R Liu, JG Vancso - Nanoscale, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Quantum Dots (QDs) are semiconductor nanocrystals with distinct photophysical properties
finding applications in biology, biosensing, and optoelectronics. Polymeric coatings of QDs …