Photodynamic Properties of Nanoparticles

Dear Colleagues,

Nanoparticles play a crucial role in multiple areas, such as chemical and biological sensing, catalysis, imaging, and diagnosis, among others. The development of nanoparticles with unique and key physicochemical properties and advantageously photodynamic properties provides innovative photosensitizer solutions to be used in photodynamic therapies. Photosensitizer drugs are photoactivated molecules or materials, which generate reactive oxygen species (ROS), like singlet oxygen (¹O₂), through a series of photochemical events that ideally culminate in cell death. The use of nanoparticles as photosensitizers have emerged in the past years and will be explored in this Special Issue. This Special Issue is devoted to the synthesis, characterization, and application of nanoparticles in photodynamic therapies, with a special focus on their photodynamic properties.

In this Special Issue, submissions in the form of full-length articles, reviews, communications, and mini-reviews on nanoscience/technology at the interface of engineering, biology, physics, chemistry, and materials are encouraged for submission.

Dr. Joana F. B. Barata
Guest Editor

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• photosensitizers
• photodynamic therapies
• ROS
• singlet oxygen
• organic–inorganic hybrids
• metal nanoparticles
• organic nanoparticles