Publications by authors named "Haifei Wen"

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  • - Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative condition characterized by memory loss and cognitive decline, influenced by factors like amyloid β plaques and tau protein tangles.
  • - Current treatments for AD only provide temporary symptom relief and cannot halt disease progression, while the blood-brain barrier complicates drug delivery to the brain.
  • - Nanomedicine, using various types of nanoparticles, shows promise in improving diagnosis and treatment of AD by enhancing drug delivery and targeting, though challenges in clinical applications remain.
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Immunotherapy combined with phototherapy is emerging as a promising strategy to treat omnipotent cancers. In this study, a clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-associated protein 9 (Cas9) system, aggregation-induced emission (AIE) photosensitizer (PS) and surface coating of polyethylene imine/hyaluronic acid were combined to construct a multifunctional nanoplatform, denoted as TCPH nanoparticles (NPs), for comprehensive cancer theranostics. TCPH NPs are featured by intrinsic functions including efficient reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, good photothermal conversion, programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1)-eliminating capability, and effective intracellular transport.

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Photodynamic therapy (PDT), as an emerging cancer treatment, requires the development of highly desirable photosensitizers (PSs) with integrated functional groups to achieve enhanced therapeutic efficacy. Coordination-driven self-assembly (CDSA) would provide an alternative approach for combining multiple PSs synergistically. Here, we demonstrate a simple yet powerful strategy of combining conventional chromophores (tetraphenylethylene, porphyrin, or Zn-porphyrin) with pyridinium salt PSs together through condensation reactions, followed by CDSA to construct a series of novel metallo-supramolecular PSs (S1-S3).

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One-for-all phototheranostics, referring to a single component simultaneously exhibiting multiple optical imaging and therapeutic modalities, has attracted significant attention due to its excellent performance in cancer treatment. Benefitting from the superiority in balancing the diverse competing energy dissipation pathways, aggregation-induced emission luminogens (AIEgens) are proven to be ideal templates for constructing one-for-all multimodal phototheranostic agents. However, to this knowledge, the all-round AIEgens that can be triggered by a second near-infrared (NIR-II, 1000-1700 nm) light have not been reported.

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Photoimmunotherapy has been acknowledged to be an unprecedented strategy to obtain significantly improved cancer treatment efficacy. In this regard, the exploitation of high-performance multimodal phototheranostic agents is highly desired. Apart from tailoring electron donors, acceptor engineering is gradually rising as a deliberate approach in this field.

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Visualization of immunocyte-microbe interaction is of great importance to reveal the physiological role and working mechanism of innate and adaptive immune system. The lack of rapid and stable microbial labeling platform and insufficient understanding of macrophage-microbe interaction may delay precautions that could be made. In this contribution, a clickable AIEgen, CDPP-NCS, containing a cationic pyridinium moiety for targeting bacteria and an isothiocyanate moiety for covalently bonding with amine groups, is successfully developed.

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The intense metabolism of cancer cells leads to hypoxia and lack of crucial nutrients in the tumor microenvironment, which hinders the function of immune cells. We designed a biomimetic immune metabolic nanoplatform, in which a type I aggregation-induced emission photosensitizer and a glutamine antagonist are encapsulated into a cancer cell membrane for achieving specific delivery . This approach greatly satisfies the glucose and glutamine required by T cells, significantly improves the tumor hypoxic environment, enables the reprogramming of tumor and immune cell metabolism, induces immunogenic cell death, promotes dendritic cell maturation, and effectively inhibits tumor proliferation.

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  • Pancreatic cancer, known as one of the deadliest cancers, presents significant challenges for effective diagnosis and treatment, making it a focus for new technologies.
  • Recent advancements in phototheranostics—technology that combines diagnosis and therapy—show promise, but traditional methods face limitations like weak penetration and dependence on oxygen.
  • This study introduces a new compound, DCTBT, which combines advanced imaging and treatment capabilities, demonstrating effective tumor targeting and growth suppression in pancreatic cancer models, paving the way for future cancer theranostic developments.
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The development of autonomous materials with desired performance and built-in visualizable sensing units is of great academic and industrial significance. Although a wide range of damage indication methods have been reported, the "turn-on" sensing mechanism by damaging events based on microcapsule systems, especially those relying on chemical reactions to elicit a chromogenic response, are still very limited. Herein, a facile and metal-free polymerization route with an interesting reaction-induced coloration effect is demonstrated.

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The outbreak of infectious diseases such as COVID-19 causes an urgent need for abundant personal protective equipment (PPE) which leads to a huge shortage of raw materials. Additionally, the inappropriate disposal and sterilization of PPE may result in a high risk of cross-contamination. Therefore, the exploration of antimicrobial materials possessing both microbe interception and self-decontamination effects to develop reusable and easy-to-sterilize PPE is of great importance.

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Phototheranostics involving both fluorescence imaging and photodynamic therapy has been recognized to be potentially powerful for cancer treatment by virtue of various intrinsic advantages. However, the state-of-the-art materials in this area are still far from ideal toward practical applications, ascribed to their respective and collective drawbacks, such as inefficient imaging quality, inferior reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, the lack of subcellular-targeting capability, and dissatisfactory delivery. In this paper, these shortcomings are successfully addressed through the integration of finely engineered photosensitizers with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) features and well tailored nanocarrier systems.

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Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has long been recognized to be a promising approach for cancer treatment. However, the high oxygen dependency of conventional PDT dramatically impairs its overall therapeutic efficacy, especially in hypoxic solid tumors. Exploration of distinctive PDT strategy involving both high-performance less-oxygen-dependent photosensitizers (PSs) and prominent drug delivery system is an appealing yet significantly challenging task.

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Construction of single component theranostic agent with one-for-all features to concurrently afford both multi-modality imaging and therapy is an appealing yet significantly challenging task. Herein, a type of luminogens with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristics are tactfully designed and facilely synthesized. These AIE luminogens (AIEgens) exhibit long emission wavelengths, good photostability, remarkable biocompatibility, good reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation performance and excellent photothermal conversion efficiency, which allow them to be powerfully utilized for in vitro and in vivo cancer phototheranostics.

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Using reverse thinking of the aggregation-induced emission (AIE) principle, we demonstrate an ingenious and universal protocol for amplifying molecular motions to boost photothermal efficiency of fibers. Core-shell nanofibers having the olive oil solution of AIE-active molecules as the core surrounded by PVDF-HFP shell were constructed by coaxial electrospinning. The molecularly dissolved state of AIE-active molecules allows them to freely rotate and/or vibrate in nanofibers upon photoexcitation and thus significantly elevates the proportion of non-radiative energy dissipation, affording impressive heat-generating efficiency.

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Aiming to achieve versatile phototheranostics with the integrated functionalities of multiple diagnostic imaging and synergistic therapy, the optimum use of dissipated energy through both radiative and nonradiative pathways is definitely appealing, yet a significantly challenging task. To the best of the knowledge, there have been no previous reports on a single molecular species effective at affording all phototheranostic modalities including fluorescence imaging (FLI), photoacoustic imaging (PAI), photothermal imaging (PTI), photodynamic therapy (PDT), and photothermal therapy (PTT). Herein, a simple and highly powerful one-for-all phototheranostics based on aggregation-induced emission (AIE)-active fluorophores is tactfully designed and constructed.

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Utilizing solar energy to generate clean water by interface solar steam generation is considered to be a promising strategy to address the challenge of global water shortage. However, it is challenge to design an idealized structure with all of the required characters such as high photothermal conversion efficiency, large surface to volume, and porous and continuous water pumping. Herein, we demonstrate a three-dimensional all-fiber aerogel (3D AFA) that can float on the water surface and continuously self-pump water.

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