Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Molecular demultiplexer as a terminator automaton

  • Ilke S. Turan,
  • Gurcan Gunaydin,
  • Seylan Ayan,
  • Engin U. Akkaya

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03259-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Nanorobots will likely play a major role in future therapeutic approaches. Here, the authors develop a molecular automaton based on Zinc-BODIPY complexes that can autonomously switch between singlet oxygen generation and fluorescence emission, i.e., therapeutic and diagnostic modes.