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Overview

Xiaoyuan Chen is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore. Their research intersects multiple disciplines including medicine, engineering, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist has produced a significant body of work, with a primary focus on biomedical engineering, molecular biology, materials chemistry, immunology, and oncology.

The academic output of Xiaoyuan Chen spans various major topics, notably in the development and application of nanotechnology for biomedical purposes. The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
  • Advanced nanomaterials in catalysis
  • Nanoparticle-based drug delivery
  • RNA interference and gene delivery
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Extracellular vesicles in disease
  • Radiopharmaceutical chemistry and applications

Xiaoyuan Chen's research has been published extensively in several key scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Advanced Materials
  • ACS Nano
  • Advanced Science
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Frequent collaborators in their work include Jianhua Zou, Guocan Yu, Lang Rao, Jingjing Zhang, and Yang Zhu, with collaboration counts ranging from 24 to 44 publications.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Xiaoyuan Chen cover areas related to cancer therapy, nanomaterials, and imaging techniques. Notable recent publications include:

  • Clinical development and potential of photothermal and photodynamic therapies for cancer, 2020, Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology
  • Engineering Macrophages for Cancer Immunotherapy and Drug Delivery, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Ultrasmall copper-based nanoparticles for reactive oxygen species scavenging and alleviation of inflammation related diseases, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Polyphenol-Containing Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Properties, and Therapeutic Delivery, 2021, Advanced Materials
  • Fluorescence imaging of pathophysiological microenvironments, 2021, Chemical Society Reviews

Best Publications

  • High-Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys

    Bed Poudel;Qing Hao;Yi Ma;Yucheng Lan

  • Clinical development and potential of photothermal and photodynamic therapies for cancer

    Xingshu Li;Jonathan F. Lovell;Juyoung Yoon;Xiaoyuan Chen

  • Upconversion Nanoparticles: Design, Nanochemistry, and Applications in Theranostics

    Guanying Chen;Hailong Qiu;Hailong Qiu;Paras N. Prasad;Paras N. Prasad;Xiaoyuan Chen

  • Photothermal therapy and photoacoustic imaging via nanotheranostics in fighting cancer

    Yijing Liu;Pravin Bhattarai;Zhifei Dai;Xiaoyuan Chen

  • Drug delivery with carbon nanotubes for in vivo cancer treatment.

    Zhuang Liu;Kai Chen;Corrine Davis;Sarah Sherlock

  • Reactive oxygen species generating systems meeting challenges of photodynamic cancer therapy

    Zijian Zhou;Zijian Zhou;Jibin Song;Liming Nie;Xiaoyuan Chen

  • Design and construction of the BESIII detector

    M. Ablikim;Z.H. An;J.Z. Bai;Niklaus Berger

  • Nanotechnology for Multimodal Synergistic Cancer Therapy

    Wenpei Fan;Wenpei Fan;Bryant Yung;Peng Huang;Xiaoyuan Chen

  • In vivo biodistribution and highly efficient tumour targeting of carbon nanotubes in mice

    Zhuang Liu;Weibo Cai;Lina He;Nozomi Nakayama

  • Nanoparticle-based theranostic agents

    Jin Xie;Seulki Lee;Xiaoyuan Chen

  • Overcoming the Achilles' heel of photodynamic therapy.

    Wenpei Fan;Wenpei Fan;Peng Huang;Xiaoyuan Chen

  • Simultaneous Fenton-like Ion Delivery and Glutathione Depletion by MnO2 -Based Nanoagent to Enhance Chemodynamic Therapy.

    Li-Sen Lin;Li-Sen Lin;Jibin Song;Jibin Song;Liang Song;Kaimei Ke

  • Carbon nanotubes as photoacoustic molecular imaging agents in living mice.

    Adam De La Zerda;Cristina Zavaleta;Shay Keren;Srikant Vaithilingam

  • Diverse Applications of Nanomedicine

    Beatriz Pelaz;Christoph Alexiou;Ramon A. Alvarez-Puebla;Frauke Alves;Frauke Alves

  • Circulation and long-term fate of functionalized, biocompatible single-walled carbon nanotubes in mice probed by Raman spectroscopy

    Zhuang Liu;Corrine Davis;Weibo Cai;Lina He

  • Peptide-Labeled Near-Infrared Quantum Dots for Imaging Tumor Vasculature in Living Subjects

    Weibo Cai;Dong-Woon Shin;Kai Chen;Olivier Gheysens

  • Rethinking cancer nanotheranostics.

    Hongmin Chen;Weizhong Zhang;Guizhi Zhu;Jin Xie

  • Synthesis of Copper Peroxide Nanodots for H2O2 Self-Supplying Chemodynamic Therapy.

    Li-Sen Lin;Tao Huang;Jibin Song;Xiang-Yu Ou

  • Gold Nanoparticles for In Vitro Diagnostics

    Wen Zhou;Xia Gao;Dingbin Liu;Xiaoyuan Chen

  • Nanoparticle design strategies for enhanced anticancer therapy by exploiting the tumour microenvironment

    Yunlu Dai;Yunlu Dai;Can Xu;Xiaolian Sun;Xiaoyuan Chen

  • Near-Infrared-II Molecular Dyes for Cancer Imaging and Surgery.

    Shoujun Zhu;Rui Tian;Alexander L. Antaris;Xiaoyuan Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Gang Niu
Gang Niu Xi'an Jiaotong University
Orit Jacobson
Orit Jacobson National Institutes of Health
Dale O. Kiesewetter
Dale O. Kiesewetter National Institutes of Health
Weibo Cai
Weibo Cai University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jibin Song
Jibin Song Nanyang Technological University
Zijian Zhou
Zijian Zhou National Institutes of Health
Jin Xie
Jin Xie University of Georgia
Guocan Yu
Guocan Yu National Institutes of Health
Wenpei Fan
Wenpei Fan China Pharmaceutical University
Lisen Lin
Lisen Lin National Institutes of Health

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