New photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy
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...Some of the most frequently used PSs include phenothiazinium derivatives (methylene blue, toluidine blue), xanthine derivatives (rose bengal), porphyrin, chlorin, or fullerene derivatives amongst many others (Abrahamse and Hamblin, 2016; Cieplik et al., 2018)....
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...The BODIPY (boron-dipyrromethene) dye structure usually contains a BF2 bridging unit, and constitutes a popular class of fluorophores [49]....
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...There is another group of nanostructures where the actual nanoparticle itself acts as the PS absorbing light and producing ROS, as in the case of fullerenes [86], titanium dioxide [84] and some types of quantum dots [87]....
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...Although many researchers have prepared conjugates between quantum dots and various different PSs to carry out PDT [101–103], a recent study showed that graphene quantum dots could mediate PDT on their own without any added PS [87]....
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...These ROS have been used in the process of photocatalysis which is used to kill micro-organisms and degrade organic pollutants [97]....
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