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SUBMITTER: Jung HS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5882556 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jung Hyo Sung HS Verwilst Peter P Sharma Amit A Shin Jinwoo J Sessler Jonathan L JL Kim Jong Seung JS
Chemical Society reviews 20180401 7
Over the last decade, organic photothermal therapy (PTT) agents have attracted increasing attention as a potential complement for, or alternative to, classical drugs and sensitizers involving inorganic nanomaterials. In this tutorial review, we provide a structured description of the main classes of organic photothermal agents and their characteristics. Representative agents that have been studied in the context of photothermal therapy since 2000 are summarized and recent advances in using PTT a ...[more]