Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Type I Photosensitizers for Cancer Therapy
Kazutaka Hirakawa (Applied Chemistry and Biochemical Engineering Course, Department of Engineering, Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan, and others)
Chapter 2. Photosensitizers as Antibacterial Agents in Polymer Science
Pauline Sautrot and Davy-Louis Versace (Universite Paris-Est, Institut de Chimie et des Matériaux Paris-Est (ICMPE)-UMR CNRS, Creteil, Cedex, France)
Chapter 3. Rose Bengal and its Biomedical Applications
V. S. Maryakhina (Orenburg State University, Orenburg, Russia)
Chapter 4. Multi-Phototherapy based on Combined use of Photosensitizers and Photothermal Agents
Meng Yu, Nan Li and Xintao Shuai (School of Materials Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, and others)
Chapter 5. Cationic Metal Phthalocyanines as Effective Photosensitizers Towards Pathogenic Microorganisms
Vanya Mantareva, Vesselin Kussovski and Ivan Angelov (Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)
Chapter 6. Immobilization of the Photosensitizers on the Solid Surface for the Application in the Photooxidation Reactions
Katarzyna Piwowar, Agata Blacha-Grzechnik and Jerzy K. Zak (Department of Physical Chemistry and Technology of Polymers, Faculty of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland)
Chapter 7. Vehicles, Ways and New Challenges for the Improvement of Photosensitizers Delivery
Hilde Harb Buzzá, Natalia M. Inada, Michelle Barreto Requena, Ana Paula da Silva e Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato (São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, Brazil)
Index