Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Stereoisomeric engineering of aggregation-induced emission photosensitizers towards fungal killing

  • Wenping Zhu,
  • Ying Li,
  • Shaoxun Guo,
  • Wu-Jie Guo,
  • Tuokai Peng,
  • Hui Li,
  • Bin Liu,
  • Hui-Qing Peng,
  • Ben Zhong Tang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34358-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Fungal infections are often major causes of disease in immune compromised patients and photodynamic therapy offers and attractive treatment. Here, the authors develop stereoisomeric photosensitizers via supramolecular assembly and demonstrate aggregation-induced photodynamic action against fungi.