Formulation of Aluminum Chloride Phthalocyanine in Pluronic(™) P-123 and F-127 Block Copolymer Micelles: Photophysical properties and Photodynamic Inactivation of Microorganisms.

Aluminum Chloride Phthalocyanine (AlPcCl) can be used as a photosensitizer (PS) for Photodynamic Inactivation of Microorganisms (PDI). The AlPcCl showed favorable characteristics for PDI due to high quantum yield of singlet oxygen (ΦΔ ) and photostability. Physicochemical properties and photodynamic inactivation of AlPcCl incorporated in polymeric micelles of tri-block copolymer (P-123 and F-127) against microorganisms Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Candida albicans were investigated in this work.