Rare-earth doping in nanostructured inorganic materials

B Zheng, J Fan, B Chen, X Qin, J Wang… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Impurity doping is a promising method to impart new properties to various materials. Due to
their unique optical, magnetic, and electrical properties, rare-earth ions have been …

Overcoming barriers in photodynamic therapy harnessing nano-formulation strategies

J Xie, Y Wang, W Choi, P Jangili, Y Ge, Y Xu… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been extensively investigated for decades for tumor
treatment because of its non-invasiveness, spatiotemporal selectivity, lower side-effects, and …

Recent trends of mesoporous silica-based nanoplatforms for nanodynamic therapies

Q Xu, Y Yang, J Lu, Y Lin, S Feng, X Luo, D Di… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanodynamic therapies that generate free radicals/reactive oxygen species (ROS) in situ
have the possibility to treat deep-seated tumors and have gradually become attractive …

Synthetic amorphous silica nanoparticles: toxicity, biomedical and environmental implications

JG Croissant, KS Butler, JI Zink, CJ Brinker - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Natural silica and silicates are predominantly crystalline and constitute the most abundant
components of the Earth's crust. Man-made silica is typically amorphous and manufactured …

Advances in nanomaterials for photodynamic therapy applications: Status and challenges

J Chen, T Fan, Z Xie, Q Zeng, P Xue, T Zheng, Y Chen… - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
Photodynamic therapy (PDT), as a non-invasive therapeutic modality that is alternative to
radiotherapy and chemotherapy, is extensively investigated for cancer treatments. Although …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS)-based nanomedicine

B Yang, Y Chen, J Shi - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play an essential role in regulating various physiological
functions of living organisms. The intrinsic biochemical properties of ROS, which underlie …

Nanoparticle‐mediated radiotherapy remodels the tumor microenvironment to enhance antitumor efficacy

W Zhen, RR Weichselbaum, W Lin - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Radiotherapy (RT) uses ionizing radiation to eradicate localized tumors and, in rare cases,
control tumors outside of the irradiated fields via stimulating an antitumor immune response …

Reactive oxygen species‐regulating strategies based on nanomaterials for disease treatment

C Zhang, X Wang, J Du, Z Gu, Y Zhao - Advanced Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play an essential role in physiological and pathological
processes. Studies on the regulation of ROS for disease treatments have caused wide …

X‐ray‐Induced release of nitric oxide from hafnium‐based nanoradiosensitizers for enhanced radio‐immunotherapy

N Liu, J Zhu, W Zhu, L Chen, M Li, J Shen… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Radiotherapy (RT) is an extensively used strategy for cancer treatment, but its therapeutic
effect is usually limited by the abnormal tumor microenvironment (TME) and it lacks the …

Advancing X-ray luminescence for imaging, biosensing, and theragnostics

Z Hong, Z Chen, Q Chen, H Yang - Accounts of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus X-ray luminescence is an optical phenomenon in which chemical compounds
known as scintillators can emit short-wavelength light upon the excitation of X-ray photons …