Enhancing both biodegradability and efficacy of semiconducting polymer nanoparticles for photoacoustic imaging and photothermal therapy

• Main Authors: Lyu, Yan, Zeng, Jianfeng, Jiang, Yuyan, Zhen, Xu, Wang, Ting, Qiu, Shanshan, Lou, Xin, Gao, Mingyuan, Pu, Kanyi
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Chemical engineering; Photoacoustic Imaging; Photothermal Therapy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/91064; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48508
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Theranostic nanoagents are promising for precision medicine. However, biodegradable nanoagents with the ability for photoacoustic (PA) imaging guided photothermal therapy (PTT) are rare. We herein report the development of biodegradable semiconducting polymer nanoparticles (SPNs) with enhanced PA an...