Unadulterated Organic Nanoparticles with Small Sizes for Robust Tumor Imaging and Photothermal Treatment

Phototheranostics integrating optical imaging and phototherapy have attracted massive attention in the context of precise tumor therapy. However, most of the reported phototheranostic systems have large sizes and complex structures due to either the extraneous carriers or cargos. Herein, the organic nanoparticles (terrylenediimide (TDI) NPs) are obtained from a TDI-based single component in the absence of additives. The as-prepared TDI NPs possess favorable small sizes of less than 20 nm, good photothermal stability, and high photothermal conversion efficiency. Especially, TDI NPs have the capacity for rapid and lasting tumor imaging, and effective photothermal therapy of cervical cancer upon irradiation. This work provides an alternative method to prepare multifunctional nanomaterials with simple structures, and sheds light on the potential applications of dye molecules as intrinsic theranostic agents.     

Strong Photoacoustic Signal Enhancement by Coating Gold Nanoparticles with Melanin for Biomedical Imaging

Photoacoustics is a powerful biomedical imaging and detection technique, because it is a noninvasive, nonionizing, and low‐cost method facilitating deep tissue penetration. However, suitable contrast agents need to be developed to increase the contrast for in vivo imaging. Gold nanoparticles are often discussed as potential sonophores due to their large absorption cross‐section and their tunable plasmon resonance. However, disadvantages such as toxicity and low photoacoustic efficiency in the tissue transparency window prevail, preventing their clinical application. As a result, there remains a strong need to develop colloidal photoacoustic contrast agents which absorb in the tissue transparency window, exhibit high photoacoustic signal, and are biocompatible. Here, a facile synthetic approach is presented to produce melanin shells around various gold nanoparticle geometries, from spheres to stars and rods. These hybrid particles show excellent dispersability, better biocompatibility, and augmented photoacoustic responses over the pure melanin or pristine gold particles, with a rod‐shape geometry leading to the highest performance. These experimental results are corroborated using numerical calculations and explain the improved photoacoustic performance with a thermal confinement effect. The applicability of melanin coated gold nanorods as gastrointestinal imaging probes in mouse intestine is showcased.     

Development of Citrate‐Based Dual‐Imaging Enabled Biodegradable Electroactive Polymers

Increasing occurrences of degenerative diseases, defective tissues, and severe cancers heighten the importance of advanced biomedical treatments, which in turn enhance the need for improved biomaterials with versatile theranostic functionalities yet using minimal design complexity. Leveraging the advantages of citrate chemistry, a multifunctional citrate‐based biomaterial platform is developed with both imaging and therapeutic capabilities utilizing a facile and efficient one‐pot synthesis. The resulting aniline tetramer doped biodegradable photoluminescent polymers (BPLPATs) not only possess programmable degradation profiles (<1 to > 6 months) and mechanical strengths (≈20 MPa to >400 MPa), but also present a combination of intrinsic fluorescence, photoacoustic (PA), and electrical conductivity properties. BPLPAT nanoparticles are able to label cells for fluorescence imaging and perform deep tissue detection with PA imaging. Coupled with significant photothermal performance, BPLPAT nanoparticles demonstrate great potential for thermal treatment and in vivo real‐time detection of cancers. The results on BPLPAT scaffolds demonstrate 3D high‐spatial‐resolution deep tissue PA imaging (23 mm), as well as promote growth and differentiation of PC‐12 nerve cells. It is envisioned that the biodegradable dual‐imaging‐enabled electroactive citrate‐based biomaterial platform will expand the currently available theranostic material systems and open new avenues for diversified biomedical and biological applications via the demonstrated multifunctionality.     

Near-Infrared Light Triggered Silk Fibroin Scaffold for Photothermal Therapy and Tissue Repair of Bone Tumors

Silk fibroin (SF) has attracted great interest in bone tissue engineering due to its extraordinary characteristics in terms of mechanical properties, biocompatibility, and biodegradability. SF scaffolds are assembled by biocompatible polydopamine nanoparticles at mesoscopic scale, which endows the scaffolds with a near-infrared (NIR) light response for the treatment of bone tumors. The functionalized SF scaffold not only enhances the significant structure and performance of native SF scaffold for bone treatment and reconstruction, such as primary and mesoscopic structure, multi-level pores, and biodegradation, as well as biocompatibility but also have excellent photothermal effect leading a significant cytotoxicity to MG63 cancer cells after NIR laser irradiation. Moreover, the penetration of NIR light in tissue is improved using an optical fiber, which demonstrates the obtained scaffolds’ great potential in the application of photothermal therapy.     

平行缝焊工艺抗盐雾腐蚀技术研究

抗盐雾腐蚀是提高集成电路封装可靠性的重要手段之一.根据金属腐蚀机理,通过优化封焊工艺和AuSn合金焊料平行缝焊封盖工艺,以及在封盖后再次进行电镀修复损伤等措施,提高了平行缝焊集成电路的杭盐雾腐蚀能力.     

高灵敏度太赫兹超材料对于生物组织切片的研究

太赫兹波在生物医学领域具有非电离、无标签、实时等优点,因此在该领域具有巨大的发展潜力。为了解决介电常数相近的生物组织之间的区分问题,设计并制造了一种具有Fano共振特性的超材料,并进行太赫兹反射成像实验。模拟和实验结果显示,在0.82 THz下,该超材料的反射灵敏度达到132 GHz/RIU。该超材料不仅可以提高标准成像分辨率板的对比度,还可以将肌肉组织和脂肪组织之间对比度提高约7.5%。这些结果表明,该超材料能够显著提高生物组织切片图像的对比度,为今后太赫兹应用于临床组织样本奠定了实验和理论基础。     

A New Single 808 nm NIR Light‐Induced Imaging‐Guided Multifunctional Cancer Therapy Platform

The NIR light‐induced imaging‐guided cancer therapy is a promising route in the targeting cancer therapy field. However, up to now, the existing single‐modality light‐induced imaging effects are not enough to meet the higher diagnosis requirement. Thus, the multifunctional cancer therapy platform with multimode light‐induced imaging effects is highly desirable. In this work, captopril stabilized‐Au nanoclusters Au₂₅(Capt)₁₈?(Au₂₅) are assembled into the mesoporous silica shell coating outside of Nd³⁺‐sensitized upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) for the first time. The newly formed Au₂₅ shell exhibits considerable photothermal effects, bringing about the photothermal imaging and photoacoustic imaging properties, which couple with the upconversion luminescence imaging. More importantly, the three light‐induced imaging effects can be simultaneously achieved by exciting with a single NIR light (808 nm), which is also the triggering factor for the photothermal and photodynamic cancer therapy. Besides, the nanoparticles can also present the magnetic resonance and computer tomography imaging effects due to the Gd³⁺ and Yb³⁺ ions in the UCNPs. Furthermore, due to the photodynamic and the photothermal effects, the nanoparticles possess efficient in vivo tumor growth inhibition under the single irradiation of 808 nm light. The multifunctional cancer therapy platform with multimode imaging effects realizes a true sense of light‐induced imaging‐guided cancer therapy.     

Renal-Clearable Ultrasmall Polypyrrole Nanoparticles with Size-Regulated Property for Second Near-Infrared Light-Mediated Photothermal Therapy

The critical issue that hinders the translation of nanomaterials from basic research to clinical trials is their potential toxicity caused by long-term body retention. It is still a huge challenge to integrate renal-clearable and theranostic properties into one nanomedicine, especially exploring the nanomaterials with optical absorption in the second near-infrared light (NIR II) biowindow with deep penetration and less tissue scattering. Here, ultrasmall polypyrrole (PPy, ≈2 nm)-based theranostic agents via a facile and green one-step method, which exhibit fluorescence (FL)/photoacoustic (PA)/NIR II multimodal imaging, superior photostability, as well as high photothermal conversion efficiency of 33.35% at 808 nm and 41.97% at 1064 nm is developed. Importantly, these ultrasmall PPy-PEG nanoparticles (NPs) reveal abundant tumor accumulation and efficient renal clearance. Both in vitro and in vivo studies indicate that ultrasmall PPy-PEG NPs have excellent photothermal effect under NIR II laser irradiation that can effectively eliminate the tumors with extremely low systemic toxicity.     

Smart Biomaterials for Articular Cartilage Repair and Regeneration

Articular cartilage defects bring about disability and worldwide socioeconomic loss, therefore, articular cartilage repair and regeneration is recognized as a global issue. However, due to its avascular and nearly acellular characteristic, cartilage tissue regeneration ability is limited to some extent. Despite the availability of various treatment methods, including palliative drugs and surgical regenerative therapy, articular cartilage repair and regeneration still face major challenges due to the lack of appropriate methods and materials. Smart biomaterials can regulate cell behavior and provide excellent tissue repair and regeneration microenvironment, thus inducing articular cartilage repair and regeneration. This process is adjusted by controlling drug/bioactive factors release via responding to exogenous/endogenous stimuli, tailoring materials’ structure and function similar to native cartilage or providing physiochemical and physical signaling factors. Herein, smart biomaterials, recently applied in articular cartilage repair and regeneration, are elaborated from two aspects: smart drug release system and smart scaffolds. Furthermore, articular cartilage and its defects and advanced manufacturing techniques of smart biomaterials are discussed in brief. Finally, perspectives for smart biomaterials used in articular cartilage repair and regeneration are presented and the clinical translation of smart biomaterials is emphasized.     

SnTe@MnO2‐SP Nanosheet–Based Intelligent Nanoplatform for Second Near‐Infrared Light–Mediated Cancer Theranostics

Near infrared light, especially the second near‐infrared light (NIR II) biowindows with deep penetration and high sensitivity are widely used for optical diagnosis and phototherapy. Here, a novel kind of 2D SnTe@MnO₂‐SP nanosheet (NS)‐based nanoplatform is developed for cancer theranostics with NIR II‐mediated precise optical imaging and effective photothermal ablation of mouse xenografted tumors. The 2D SnTe@MnO₂‐SP NSs are fabricated via a facile method combining ball‐milling and liquid exfoliation for synthesis of SnTe NSs, and surface coating MnO₂ shell and soybean phospholipid (SP). The ultrathin SnTe@MnO₂‐SP NSs reveal notably high photothermal conversion efficiency (38.2% in NIR I and 43.9% in NIR II). The SnTe@MnO₂‐SP NSs inherently feature tumor microenvironment (TME)‐responsive biodegradability, and the main metabolite TeO₃^2? shows great antitumor effect, coupling synergetic chemotherapy for cancer. Moreover, the SnTe@MnO₂‐SP NSs also exhibit great potential for fluorescence, photoacoustic (PA), and photothermal imaging agents in the NIR II biowindow with much higher resolution and sensitivity. This is the first report, as far as is known, with such an inorganic nanoagent setting fluorescence/PA/photothermal imaging and photothermal therapy in NIR II biowindow and TME‐responsive biodegradability rolled into one, which provide insight into the clinical potential for cancer theranostics.     

直角三棱镜补充视角的密封圈缺陷检测研究

为解决三维激光检测中被测物体底面点云无法被高效获取的问题,本文提出了基于直角三棱镜折射原理的补充视角三维点云扫描获取方法。该方法使用直角三棱镜将底面图像折射到侧面,弥补了三维检测的底面检测视角缺失的问题,补充了底面检测视角。本文以密封圈作为缺陷检测对象,采用结构光三维相机采集三维点云。与直接扫描法相比,本方法可以一次性实时、快速地寻找出密封圈完整的表面缺陷,尤其使底面缺陷检测变得更容易,且无需设置特殊的夹取装置或复杂的机械臂等机械结构,仅需增加一块直角三棱镜。实验证实,直角三棱镜补充视角的点云扫描方法能够达到成像要求,对常见的密封圈断裂缺陷与塌陷缺陷均可很好的检出,检测准确率可达到100,满足密封密封圈缺陷检测的需求。     

Semiconducting Nanocomposite with AIEgen‐Triggered Enhanced Photoluminescence and Photodegradation for Dual‐Modality Tumor Imaging and Therapy

Semiconducting polymer nanoparticles (SPNs) have potential in biological applications. While some SPNs have significant photothermal conversion efficiencies (PCEs) as photothermal and photoacoustic agents, other SPNs offer high fluorescence yields as photoluminescent agents. However, the energy balance distribution in SPNs inhibits their successful applications in photoluminescence/photoacoustic (PL/PA) dual‐modality imaging. Additionally, the ultrastability of SPNs in vivo may cause damage to organisms. This work reports nanocomposite semiconducting polymer and tetraphenylethene nanoparticles (STNPs) constructed by semiconducting polymers (SPs) and tetraphenylethene aggregation‐induced emission luminogens (TPE AIEgens). The SP SPC10 endows good photothermal conversion ability, and the AIEgen TPBM supports enhanced photoluminescence of the STNPs. The results show that the STNPs can act as PL/PA dual‐modality imaging agents. The signal‐to‐noise (S/N) ratio in the PL modality reaches 8.7, and the imaging depth in the PA modality is 5.8 mm. The SPC10 in the STNPs can be decomposed under 90 mW cm^?2 white light irradiation in 6 h without any other additional agents. Furthermore, the STNPs are sufficient for the treatment of xenograft 4T1 tumor‐bearing mice based on photothermal therapy. The nanocomposite STNPs achieve optimized dual‐modality PL/PA imaging and the AIEgen‐triggered in situ photodegradation of SPNs. These properties indicate the significant potential of STNPs in clinical diagnosis and noninvasive therapy.     

Renal-Clearable Nickel-Doped Carbon Dots with Boosted Photothermal Conversion Efficiency for Multimodal Imaging-Guided Cancer Therapy in the Second Near-Infrared Biowindow

Photothermal agents with absorption in the second near-infrared (NIR-II) biowindow have attracted increasing attention for photothermal therapy (PTT) on account of their deeper tissue penetration capacity. However, most of the current NIR-II photothermal agents exhibit low photothermal conversion efficiency (PCE) and long-term biotoxicity. To overcome these shortcomings, herein, nickel and nitrogen co-doped carbon dots (Ni-CDs, ≈4.6 nm) are prepared via a facile one-pot hydrothermal approach for imaging-guided PTT in the NIR-II window. The Ni-CDs exhibit significant absorption in the NIR-II region with a distinguished PCE as high as 76.1% (1064 nm) and have excellent photostability and biocompatibility. Furthermore, the Ni-CDs can be employed as photothermal, photoacoustic, and magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents because of their outstanding photothermal effect and instinctive paramagnetic feature. The Ni-CDs demonstrate significant PTT efficacy of tumor upon 1064 nm irradiation with a low power density (0.5 W cm⁻²). The Ni-CDs can be eliminated from the body via a renal filtration pathway, thereby minimizing their long-term biotoxicity. Therefore, this work provides a simple and feasible approach to develop photothermal agents with remarkable PCE in the NIR-II region, presenting good biosafety for multimodal imaging-guided PTT of tumor.     

金纳米微粒的光学性质及其在生物成像和光热疗法中的应用

作为生物探针,纳米微粒以其独特的光学性质,易控的表面化学能力,在基于生物成像和诊断的分子生物学和医学领域中引起越来越广泛的关注.贵金属,尤其是金纳米微粒,由于其表面等离子体共振(SPR)等强吸收和发光特性,在生物组织成像,癌症的诊断和治疗中存在着巨大的应用前景.结合配体的金纳米微粒能够特异性地标记癌症细胞上的受体,并提供特定分子的特有信息,进行生物成像和癌症检测.另外,金纳米微粒能够有效地吸收光能量进行局部加热,导致蛋白质变性,并致细胞死亡.主要回顾各种不同尺寸和形状的金纳米微粒的光学特性,以及选择性标记的金纳米微粒在生物成像,癌症诊断和光热疗法中的研究进展.     

基于距离多普勒概念的全息雷达成像算法

全息雷达成像系统具有电离辐射小、穿透衣服等优点,在人体安检等领域具有广泛的应用前景.然而,现有系统尚存在多运动目标补偿及快速成像能力不足的问题,限制了其在火车站等人流量大的场景中的应用.本文提出了一种基于距离多普勒概念的全息雷达成像方法,其优点是成像速度快、运动补偿方便,具有多运动目标快速成像的潜力.该方法利用了信号在时间采样和空间采样上的对称性,将合成孔径雷达成像中常用的距离多普勒算法引入全息雷达成像.本文对距离多普勒全息雷达成像算法进行了推导,通过仿真及试验,验证了该成像方法具有多目标运动补偿及快速成像的能力.     

Tantalum Sulfide Nanosheets as a Theranostic Nanoplatform for Computed Tomography Imaging‐Guided Combinatorial Chemo‐Photothermal Therapy

Near‐infrared (NIR)‐absorbing metal‐based nanomaterials have shown tremendous potential for cancer therapy, given their facile and controllable synthesis, efficient photothermal conversion, capability of spatiotemporal‐controlled drug delivery, and intrinsic imaging function. Tantalum (Ta) is among the most biocompatible metals and arouses negligible adverse biological responses in either oxidized or reduced forms, and thus Ta‐derived nanomaterials represent promising candidates for biomedical applications. However, Ta‐based nanomaterials by themselves have not been explored for NIR‐mediated photothermal ablation therapy. In this work, an innovative Ta‐based multifunctional nanoplatform composed of biocompatible tantalum sulfide (TaS₂) nanosheets (NSs) is reported for simultaneous NIR hyperthermia, drug delivery, and computed tomography (CT) imaging. The TaS₂ NSs exhibit multiple unique features including (i) efficient NIR light‐to‐heat conversion with a high photothermal conversion efficiency of 39%, (ii) high drug loading (177% by weight), (iii) controlled drug release triggered by NIR light and moderate acidic pH, (iv) high tumor accumulation via heat‐enhanced tumor vascular permeability, (v) complete tumor ablation and negligible side effects, and (vi) comparable CT imaging contrast efficiency to the widely clinically used agent iobitridol. It is expected that this multifunctional NS platform can serve as a promising candidate for imaging‐guided cancer therapy and selection of cancer patients with high tumor accumulation.     

Ionic Dye Based Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photothermal Water Evaporation

Conversion of solar energy into heat for water evaporation is of great significance to provide clean and sustainable technology for water purification by using inexhaustible sunlight. In this field, one of the challenges comes from the design of high-performance photothermal materials powerful in light harvesting, light-to-heat conversion, and water activation. Herein, it is demonstrated that rationalization of the ionic covalent organic framework (iCOF) can simultaneously satisfy these multiple requirements and a new iCOF STTP is constructed through the Schiff base chemistry in a rapid microwave-assisted solvothermal route by using a hydrophilic dye molecule safranineT as the ionic building block. The integrated dye-related ionic moieties greatly strengthen the light absorbance (>97%) throughout the entire solar spectrum from UV–vis to the infrared region. The framework ionic moieties provide strong polarization to reduce the exciton dissociation energy for enhanced photothermal effect, and in addition, promote sufficient water activation to decrease the water evaporation enthalpy. As an outcome, the STTP driven solar water evaporator affords a fast water evaporation rate of 3.55 kg h⁻¹ m⁻² and high solar-to-vapor efficiency of 95.8%. This study highlights the potential of designing iCOF materials for photothermal applications.     

超薄荫罩式等离子体显示屏的工艺研究

超薄荫罩式等离子体显示屏(Plasma Display Panel,PDP)相对于传统荫罩式PDP(SMPDP),采用极薄的D263T玻璃作为前后基板,且该基板玻璃可充当介质层,因此超薄荫罩式PDP重量轻,体型薄.但由于基板玻璃非常薄,使得封接难度增大.为了验证超薄SMPDP制备的可行性及提高其封接成功率,有必要对超薄SMPDP制备工艺进行深入研究.基于超薄SMPDP的结构特点,重点关注它与普通SMPDP不同的工艺处理,如荫罩处理工艺、封接固定装置设计、封接框制作工艺、封接温度曲线等方面的研究.实验结果表明,经过上述工艺改进后,超薄SMPDP的封接成功率接近80%.     

Ultrasmall CuCo2S4 Nanocrystals: All‐in‐One Theragnosis Nanoplatform with Magnetic Resonance/Near‐Infrared Imaging for Efficiently Photothermal Therapy of Tumors

Copper‐based ternary bimetal chalcogenides have very promising potential as multifunctional theragnosis nanoplatform for photothermal treatment of tumors. However, the design and synthesis of such an effective platform remains challenging. In this study, hydrophilic CuCo₂S₄ nanocrystals (NCs) with a desirable size of ≈10 nm are synthesized by a simple one‐pot hydrothermal route. The as‐prepared ultrasmall CuCo₂S₄ NCs show: 1) intense near‐infrared absorption, which is attributed to 3d electronic transitions from the valence band to an intermediate band, as identified by density functional theory calculations; 2) high photothermal performance with a photothermal conversion efficiency up to 73.4%; and 3) capability for magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, as a result of the unpaired 3d electrons of cobalt. Finally, it is demonstrated that the CuCo₂S₄ NCs are a promising “all‐in‐one” photothermal theragnosis nanoplatform for photothermal cancer therapy under the irradiation of a 915 nm laser at a safe power density of 0.5 W cm^?2, guided by MR and infrared thermal imaging. This work further promotes the potential applications of ternary bimetal chalcogenides for photothermal theragnosis therapy.     

基于ARM的温度可控LED光热治疗系统设计

光热治疗对生物组织温度的准确性和稳定性具有较高要求,针对该应用设计了基于ARM处理器和嵌入式Linux操作系统的LED光热治疗系统。系统包括光源模块、测温模块、LED驱动模块、微处理器模块及人际交互模块。根据光热治疗的实际需要采用积分分离PID算法提高了治疗中组织温度的控制品质。选用离体组织样品进行光热治疗模拟实验,实验结果表明系统温度控制具有较低的调节时间和超调量,稳态误差为±0．5℃,能较好满足光热治疗对温度控制的要求。