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 …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an emerging, non-invasive therapeutic strategy that involves
photosensitizer (PS) drugs and external light for the treatment of diseases. Despite the great …

Aptamers are a class of small nucleic acid ligands that are composed of RNA or single-
stranded DNA oligonucleotides and have high specificity and affinity for their targets. Similar …

A multifunctional theranostic platform based on photosensitizer-loaded plasmonic vesicular
assemblies of gold nanoparticles (GNPs) is developed for effective cancer imaging and …

Nucleic acid aptamers are single stranded DNA or RNA sequences that specifically bind a
cognate ligand. In addition to their widespread use as stand-alone affinity binding reagents …

In the past decades, various nanomaterials with unique properties have been explored for
bioapplications. Meanwhile, aptamers, generated from the systematic evolution of ligands by …

Conjugated polymers with strong absorbance in the near‐infrared (NIR) region have been
widely explored as photothermal therapy agents due to their excellent photostability and …

Functionally integrating DNA and other nucleic acids with nanoparticles in all their different
physicochemical forms has produced a rich variety of composite nanomaterials which, in …

Achieving controlled and accurate delivery of photosensitizers (PSs) into tumor sites is a
major challenge in conventional photodynamic therapy (PDT). Aptamer is a short …

Western medicine often aims to specifically treat diseased tissues or organs. However, the
majority of current therapeutics failed to do so owing to their limited selectivity and the …