Carbon dots (CDs), comprising crystalline graphitized carbon cores and polymer surface
groups, are currently attracting a lot of interest in biological fields owing to their fluorescent …

Cancer thermal therapy, also known as hyperthermia therapy, has long been exploited to
eradicate mass lesions that are now defined as cancer. With the development of …

Phototheranostics represents a promising direction for modern precision medicine, which
has recently attracted great research interest from multidisciplinary research areas. Organic …

Phototheranostics that concurrently and complementarily integrate real‐time diagnosis and
in situ therapeutic capabilities in one platform has become the advancing edge of precision …

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 …

Immunogenic cell death (ICD) provides momentous theoretical principle for modern cancer
immunotherapy. However, the currently available ICD inducers are still very limited and …

Biophotonics as a highly interdisciplinary frontier often requires the assistance of optical
agents to control the light pathways in cells, tissues and living organisms for specific …

Nanomedicines are attractive paradigms to deliver drugs, contrast agents,
immunomodulators, and gene editors for cancer therapy and diagnosis. However, the …

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging and photothermal therapy (PTT) have attracted extensive
attention in disease diagnosis and treatment. Although many exogenous contrast agents …

Over the last decade, organic photothermal therapy (PTT) agents have attracted increasing
attention as a potential complement for, or alternative to, classical drugs and sensitizers …