Phthalocyanine‐Assembled Nanodots as Photosensitizers for Highly Efficient Type I Photoreactions in Photodynamic Therapy |
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| Authors: | Dr. Xingshu Li Dayoung Lee Prof. Jian‐Dong Huang Prof. Juyoung Yoon |
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| Affiliation: | 1. College of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Cancer Metastasis Chemoprevention and Chemotherapy, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China;2. Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea |
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| Abstract: | Owing to their unique, nanoscale related optical properties, nanostructures assembled from molecular photosensitizers (PSs) have interesting applications in phototheranostics. However, most nanostructured PS assemblies are super‐quenched, thus, preventing their use in photodynamic therapy (PDT). Although some of these materials undergo stimuli‐responsive disassembly, which leads to partial recovery of PDT activity, their therapeutic potentials are unsatisfactory owing to a limited ability to promote generation reactive oxygen species (ROS), especially via type I photoreactions (i.e., not by 1O2 generation). Herein we demonstrate that a new, nanostructured phthalocyanine assembly, NanoPcA, has the ability to promote highly efficient ROS generation via the type I mechanism. The results of antibacterial studies demonstrate that NanoPcA has potential PDT applications. |
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| Keywords: | nanodots photodynamic therapy phthalocyanine reactive oxygen species type I photoreactions |
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