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ArticleACS applied materials & interfaces2023

Energy Partitioning in Multicomponent Nanoscintillators for Enhanced Localized Radiotherapy.

Valeria Secchi, Francesca Cova, Irene Villa, Vladimir Babin, Martin Nikl, Marcello Campione, Angelo Monguzzi

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Article in ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Valeria SecchiDipartimento di Scienza Dei Materiali, Università Degli Studi Milano-Bicocca, 20125 Milano, Italy.
Francesca CovaDipartimento di Scienza Dei Materiali, Università Degli Studi Milano-Bicocca, 20125 Milano, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7367-109X
Irene VillaDipartimento di Scienza Dei Materiali, Università Degli Studi Milano-Bicocca, 20125 Milano, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6150-7847
Vladimir BabinFZU─Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Cukrovarnická 10/112, 16 200 Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0003-3072-2242
Martin NiklFZU─Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Cukrovarnická 10/112, 16 200 Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-2378-208X
Marcello CampioneNANOMIB, Center for Biomedical Nanomedicine, University of Milano-Bicocca, P.zza Ateneo Nuovo 1, 20126 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5627-6186
Angelo MonguzziDipartimento di Scienza Dei Materiali, Università Degli Studi Milano-Bicocca, 20125 Milano, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9768-4573
University of Milano-Bicocca · ITFZU ‒ Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic · CZ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multicomponent nanomaterials consisting of dense scintillating particles functionalized by or embedding optically active conjugated photosensitizers (PSs) for cytotoxic reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been proposed in the last decade as coadjuvant agents for radiotherapy of cancer. They have been designed to make scintillation-activated sensitizers for ROS production in an aqueous environment under exposure to ionizing radiations. However, a detailed understanding of the global energy partitioning process occurring during the scintillation is still missing, in particular regarding the role of the non-radiative energy transfer between the nanoscintillator and the conjugated moieties which is usually considered crucial for the activation of PSs and therefore pivotal to enhance the therapeutic effect. We investigate this mechanism in a series of PS-functionalized scintillating nanotubes where the non-radiative energy transfer yield has been tuned by control of the intermolecular distance between the nanotube and the conjugated system. The obtained results indicate that non-radiative energy transfer has a negligible effect on the ROS sensitization efficiency, thus opening the way to the development of different architectures for breakthrough radiotherapy coadjutants to be tested in clinics.

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NanostructuresNanotubesPhotochemotherapyPhotosensitizing AgentsReactive Oxygen SpeciesPhotosensitizing AgentsReactive Oxygen Speciesenergy transfernanomaterialsradiotherapyscintillatorssinglet oxygen

Identifiers

PMID37172016
PMCPMC10214376
OpenAlexW4376507177

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