Light is an attractive tool that has a profound impact on modern medicine. Particularly, light-
based photothermal therapy (PTT) and photodynamic therapy (PDT) show great application …

Gold nanorods (NRs), pseudo-one-dimensional rod-shaped nanoparticles (NPs), have
become one of the burgeoning materials in the recent years due to their anisotropic shape …

Specific generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) within tumors in situ catalyzed by
nanozymes is a promising strategy for cancer therapeutics. However, it remains a significant …

It is of great significance to develop anticancer therapeutic agents or technologies with high
degree of specificity and patient compliance, while low toxicity. The emerging photothermal …

Photothermal therapy (PTT), which utilizes near‐infrared light‐absorbing agents to ablate
tumor, has emerged as a highly promising anticancer strategy and received intensive …

Photothermal therapy (PTT) has received increasing attention due to its high selectivity, non-
invasiveness, negligible drug resistance, oxygen independence, and minimal side effects. In …

Due to the emergence of drug resistance in bacteria and biofilm protection, achieving a
satisfactory therapeutic effect for bacteria‐infected open wounds with conventional …

The nonradiative conversion of light energy into heat (photothermal therapy, PTT) or sound
energy (photoacoustic imaging, PAI) has been intensively investigated for the treatment and …

Human immune system acts as a pivotal role in the tissue homeostasis and disease
progression. Immunomodulatory biomaterials that can manipulate innate immunity and …

Photothermal therapy (PTT) offers many advantages such as high efficiency and minimal
invasiveness, but clinical adoption of PTT nanoagents have been stifled by unresolved …