Design of superior phototheranostic agents guided by Jablonski diagrams

• Published in: Chemical Society reviews Vol. 49; no. 22; pp. 8179 - 8234
• Main Authors: Feng, Guangxue, Zhang, Guo-Qiang, Ding, Dan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Royal Society of Chemistry 21.11.2020
• Subjects: Animals; Biocompatibility; biosafety; Chemical compounds; crossing; Deactivation; design; deterioration; Drug Design; energy; Energy dissipation; Excitation; Fluorescence; fluorescent dyes; Humans; Molecular Structure; Multidisciplinary research; Nanoengineering; nanotechnology; Neoplasms - drug therapy; Neoplasms - metabolism; Phosphorescence; Photoacoustic Techniques; photons; Photosensitizing Agents - chemical synthesis; Photosensitizing Agents - chemistry; Photosensitizing Agents - therapeutic use; polymers; precision medicine; semiconductors; society; Theranostic Nanomedicine

Phototheranostics represents a promising direction for modern precision medicine, which has recently attracted great research interest from multidisciplinary research areas. Organic optical agents including small molecular fluorophores, semiconducting/conjugated polymers, aggregation-induced emissio...