A narrow-bandgap benzobisthiadiazole derivative with high near-infrared photothermal conversion efficiency and robust photostability for cancer therapy

• Main Authors: Huang, Shuo, Kannadorai, Ravi Kumar, Chen, Yuan, Liu, Quan, Wang, Mingfeng
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81356; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39222
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Photothermal therapy has emerged as a promising tool for treatment of diseases such as cancers. Previous photothermal agents have been largely limited to inorganic nanomaterials and conductive polymers that are barely biodegradable, thus raising issues of long-term toxicity for clinical applications...