Intraparticle Molecular Orbital Engineering of Semiconducting Polymer Nanoparticles as Amplified Theranostics for in Vivo Photoacoustic Imaging and Photothermal Therapy

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 4472-4481

  Lyu, Yan ^a   Fang, Yuan ^b   Miao, Qingqing ^a   Zhen, Xu ^a   Ding, Dan ^b   Pu, Kanyi ^a  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

photoacoustic imaging; photothermal therapy; semiconducting polymer nanoparticles; theranostic

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CARBON; COST EFFECTIVENESS; INFRARED DEVICES; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; POLYMERS;

CLINICAL TRANSLATION; PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PHOTO-INDUCED ELECTRON TRANSFER; PHOTOACOUSTIC SIGNALS; PHOTOTHERMAL ABLATION; PHOTOTHERMAL THERAPY; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMER NANOPARTICLES; THERANOSTIC;

MOLECULAR IMAGING;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER;

ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PHOTOACOUSTICS; PHOTOTHERAPY; PROCEDURES; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR; THERANOSTIC NANOMEDICINE; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTRAST MEDIA; FLUORESCENCE; FULLERENES; HELA CELLS; HETEROGRAFTS; HUMANS; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; PHOTOTHERAPY; POLYMERS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTORS; THERANOSTIC NANOMEDICINE;

EID: 84968813375     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b00168     Document Type: Article

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