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Frontispiece: Harvesting Light To Produce Heat: Photothermal Nanoparticles for Technological Applications and Biomedical Devices
Author(s) -
Pallavicini Piersandro,
Chirico Giuseppe,
Taglietti Angelo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.202186263
Subject(s) - photothermal therapy , nanotechnology , materials science , nanoparticle , polysulfone , internalization , chemistry , polymer , composite material , biochemistry , cell
Various obstacles stand in the way of translating photothermal through‐tissue treatments from the lab to the clinic. The topical use of NPs displaying PTE appears to be a safer, or at least easier, application, minimizing the risks of NP internalization and only requiring low irradiance. Non‐biomedical niche applications of photothermal NPs – anticounterfeit tags, proteinaceous micropatterns with embedded photothermal NPs or photothermally tunable polysulfone membranes for water filtration – have similar advantages. For more details, see the Minireview by P. Pallavicini, G. Chirico, and A. Taglietti on page 15361 ff.