Article Title

Small-molecule diketopyrrolopyrrole-based therapeutic nanoparticles for photoacoustic imaging-guided photothermal therapy

Authors

Yu Cai, Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation enter for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing 211816, China
Weili Si, Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation enter for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing 211816, China
Qianyun Tang, Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation enter for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing 211816, China
Pingping Liang, Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation enter for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing 211816, China
Chengwu Zhang, Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation enter for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing 211816, China
Peng Chen, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 70 Nanyang Drive, N1.3-B3-08, Singapore
Qi Zhang, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing 211816, China
Wei Huang, Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation enter for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing 211816, China
Xiaochen Dong, Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation enter for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing 211816, China

Keywords

photothermal therapy, photoacoustic imaging, diketopyrrolopyrrole, donor–acceptor–donor

Abstract

ABSTRACT Therapeutic nanoparticles (NPs) based on the donor–acceptor–donor structured small organic molecule diketopyrrolopyrrole (SDPP) were prepared using a simple reprecipitation approach. These near-infrared radiation-absorbing NPs have high photothermal conversion efficiency and are able to selectively target cancer tissues through the enhanced permeability and retention effect. Benefiting from these advantages, SDPP NPs can serve as an excellent therapeutic agent for highly efficient and noninvasive photoacoustic imaging-guided photothermal therapy. Experiments using mouse tumor models showed that the SDPP NPs exhibited exceptional tumor ablation ability under laser irradiation (660 nm, 1.0 W·cm‒2), even at a low dose (0.16 mg·kg‒1).

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-016-1332-2

Publisher

Tsinghua University Press

Recommended Citation

Yu Cai,Weili Si,Qianyun Tang,Pingping Liang,Chengwu Zhang,Peng Chen,Qi Zhang,Wei Huang,Xiaochen Dong, Small-molecule diketopyrrolopyrrole-based therapeutic nanoparticles for photoacoustic imaging-guided photothermal therapy. NanoRes.2017, 10(3): 794–801