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Vascular disruption agent and phototherapeutic assembled nanoparticles for enhanced tumor inhibition

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An NIR-II-emitting type-I photosensitizer for efficient hypoxic tumor phototheranostics

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The design strategy for pillararene based active targeted drug delivery systems

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Recent progress of porphyrin metal–organic frameworks for combined photodynamic therapy and hypoxia-activated chemotherapy

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Recent developments in pillar[5]arene-based nanomaterials for cancer therapy

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A supramolecular nanoplatform for imaging-guided phototherapies via hypoxia tumour microenvironment remodeling

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Supramolecular dyes: advancing precision medicine through molecular engineering

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Editorial: Supramolecular cancer therapeutic biomaterials

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Side Chain Programming Synchronously Enhances the Photothermal Conversion Efficiency and Photodynamic Activity of A–D–A Photosensitizers

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End Group Engineering for Constructing A−D−A Fused‐Ring Photosensitizers with Balanced Phototheranostics Performance

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End Group Nonplanarization Enhances Phototherapy Efficacy of A–D–A Fused-Ring Photosensitizer for Tumor Phototherapy

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Triphenylphosphonium-Functionalized Gold Nanorod/Zinc Oxide Core–Shell Nanocomposites for Mitochondrial-Targeted Phototherapy

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Revolutionizing cancer therapies with organic photovoltaic non-fullerene acceptors: A deep dive into molecular engineering for advanced phototheranostics

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Integrating Pillar[5]arene and BODIPY for a Supramolecular Nanoplatform To Achieve Synergistic Photodynamic Therapy and Chemotherapy

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The Application of PEG‐functionalized Amphiphilic Pillararene in Drug Delivery Systems

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Single-component nanoagents with large Stokes shift for high-effect phototheranostics

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A Multifunctional Nanoreactor‐Induced Dual Inhibition of HSP70 Strategy for Enhancing Mild Photothermal/Chemodynamic Synergistic Tumor Therapy

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Mitochondria-Targeting Multimodal Phototheranostics Based on Triphenylphosphonium Cation Modified Amphiphilic Pillararenes and A–D–A Fused-Ring Photosensitizers

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Water-Soluble NIR-II Photothermal Agent for Sprayable Skin Cancer Therapy

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Polypeptide nanoparticles obstruct glucose supply for NIR-II fluorescence-guided tumor starvation and enhanced mild photothermal therapy

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Regioisomerization of bromine atom on end group to enhance photodynamic activity of A−D−A photosensitizer

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NIR laser-activated multifunctional nanocomposites for cascade low-temperature photothermal and oxygen-irrelevant thermodynamic therapy

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Recent advances in the design and applications of near-infrared II responsive small molecule phototherapeutic agents

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Multifunctional agents based on 3‐dicycanovinylindan‐1‐one acceptor: Molecular design and phototheranostic application

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Efficient type Ⅰ and type Ⅱ ROS generated aggregation-induced emission photosensitizer for mitochondria targeted photodynamic therapy

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