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Yang, Peidong; Yang, Hui

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Chen, Qin; Hu, Xin; Wen, Long; Yu, Yan; Cumming, David R. S.

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The increasing miniaturization and resolution of image sensors bring challenges to conventional optical elements such as spectral filters and polarizers, the properties of which are determined mainly by the materials used, including dye polymers. Recent developments in spectral filtering and optical manipulating techniques based on nanophotonics have opened up the possibility of an alternative method to control light spectrally and spatially. By integrating these technologies into image sensors, it will become possible to achieve high compactness, improved process compatibility, robust stability and tunable functionality. In this Review, recent representative achievements on nanophotonic image sensors are presented and analyzed including image sensors with nanophotonic color filters and polarizers, metamaterial‐based THz image sensors, filter‐free nanowire image sensors and nanostructured‐based multispectral image sensors. This novel combination of cutting edge photonics research and well‐developed commercial products may not only lead to an important application of nanophotonics but also offer great potential for next generation image sensors beyond Moore's Law expectations.

Ma, Yufei; Huang, Jie; Song, Saijie; Chen, Huabing; Zhang, Zhijun

doi: 10.1002/smll.201600635pmid: 27150247

Cancer‐targeted nanotechnology is experiencing the trend of finding new materials with multiple functions for imaging and therapeutic applications. With the rapid development of the related fields, there exists a large number of reports regarding theranostic nanomedicine, decreasing the gap between cancer diagnosis and treatment with minimized separate comprehensions. In order to present an overview on the cancer‐targeted nanotheranostics, we first describe their essential building blocks, including platforms, therapeutic agents and imaging agents, and then the recently rapidly developed multimodal theranostic systems. Finally we discuss the major challenges and the perspectives of future development of nanotheranostics toward clinical translations and personalized nanomedicine.

Zhang, Jianting; Zhou, Kun; Wang, Qiangbin

doi: 10.1002/smll.201503487pmid: 27061916

Li, Taotao; Wang, Liangjie; Zhang, Kai; Xu, Yancui; Long, Xiaoyang; Gao, Shoujian; Li, Ru; Yao, Yagang

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Ye, Fangmin; Liu, Meinan; Zhang, Xinyi; Li, Wanfei; Pan, Zhenghui; Li, Hongfei; Zhang, Su; Zhang, Yuegang

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