Unsymmetrical cyanine dye via in vivo hitchhiking endogenous albumin affords high-performance NIR-II/photoacoustic imaging and photothermal therapy

Abstract Herein, an unprecedented synergistic strategy for the development of high-performance NIR-II fluorophore is proposed and validated. Based on an unsymmetrical cyanine dye design strategy, the NIR-II emissive dye NIC was successfully developed by replacing only one of the indoline donors of s...

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Main Authors: Pengfei Xu, Linan Hu, Cheng Yu, Weidong Yang, Fei Kang, Mingru Zhang, Pei Jiang, Jing Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-10-01
Series:Journal of Nanobiotechnology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12951-021-01075-0