Triplet photosensitizers (PSs) have attracted much attention in recent years, due to the
significance of these kinds of compounds in fundamental photochemistry studies and …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a minimally-invasive procedure that has been clinically
approved for treating certain types of cancers. This procedure takes advantage of the …

Metal complexes are widely used as anticancer drugs, while the severe side effects of
traditional chemotherapy require new therapeutic modalities. Sonodynamic therapy (SDT) …

Cyanine dyes have been widely used in phototherapy in recent years due to their excellent
optical properties and diverse modifiable structures. This review provides detailed …

The design and development of novel squaraine dyes as sensitisers for photodynamic
therapy (PDT) applications has grown tremendously in the last decade from the time when a …

Thermally activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) materials generally suffer from severe
concentration quenching. Efficient non‐doped TADF emitters are generally highly twisted …

Perylene diimides (PDIs) are versatile n-type materials showing great promise in a number
of optoelectronic applications. While the singlet manifold of PDI can be readily populated …

Coumarin derivatives have potential applications in sensing, laser dyes, fluorescent probes,
and dye− sensitized solar cells due to their unique photophysical properties. However, the …

Photoluminescent molecules exploiting the sizable spin–orbit coupling constants of main
group metals and metalloids to access long-lived triplet excited states are relatively rare …

The development of metal-free room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) emitters is a very
challenging task, due to one of the most critical issues in pure organic systems: very weak …