Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Nanosystems for Photodynamic Therapy
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the possibility of improving the efficiency of a photosensitizer utilizing colloidal semiconductor quantum dots as light-harvesting nanoantenna and reveal the mechanism of this enhancement.
Keywords: quantum dots, photosensitizer, photodynamic therapy, FRET, charge transfer
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