Thiophene assisted cellular uptake enhancement for highly efficient NIR-II cancer phototheranostics†
Abstract
We designed two series of NIR-II PTAs with D–A or D–A–D structures, in which the introduction of thiophene promotes a bathochromic shift of emission into the NIR-II region, helps to improve the cellular uptake of the PTAs and facilitates NIR-II imaging-guided PDT/PTT cancer phototherapy.
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