Advanced Materials
Advanced Materials
5 years ago

Precise Two-Photon Photodynamic Therapy using an Efficient Photosensitizer with Aggregation-Induced Emission Characteristics

Precise Two-Photon Photodynamic Therapy using an Efficient Photosensitizer with Aggregation-Induced Emission Characteristics
Feng Yin, Bin Liu, Gaixia Xu, Guangxue Feng, Peter Han Joo Chong, Bobo Gu, Junle Qu, Ken-Tye Yong, Wenbo Wu
Two-photon photodynamic therapy (PDT) is able to offer precise 3D manipulation of treatment volumes, providing a target level that is unattainable with current therapeutic techniques. The advancement of this technique is greatly hampered by the availability of photosensitizers with large two-photon absorption (TPA) cross section, high reactive-oxygen-species (ROS) generation efficiency, and bright two-photon fluorescence. Here, an effective photosensitizer with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristics is synthesized, characterized, and encapsulated into an amphiphilic block copolymer to form organic dots for two-photon PDT applications. The AIE dots possess large TPA cross section, high ROS generation efficiency, and excellent photostability and biocompatibility, which overcomes the limitations of many conventional two-photon photosensitizers. Outstanding therapeutic performance of the AIE dots in two-photon PDT is demonstrated using in vitro cancer cell ablation and in vivo brain-blood-vessel closure as examples. This shows therapy precision up to 5 µm under two-photon excitation. A new two-photon photosensitizer is synthesized and formulated into organic dots with aggregation-induced emission characteristics, large two-photon absorption cross section, high reactive-oxygen-species generation efficiency, and excellent photostability and biocompatibility, enabling in vitro cancer cell ablation and in vivo brain-blood-vessel closure with 5 µm precision under two-photon excitation.

Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi

DOI: 10.1002/adma.201701076

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