Multi-Functionality in Theranostic Nanoparticles: is more Always Better?

Fatma Vatansever^1,2, Rakkiyappan Chandran^1,2,3, Magesh Sadasivam^1,2,3, Long Y Chiang^4,5 and Michael R. Hamblin^1,2,6*

¹Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 40 Blossom St., Boston, MA 02114, USA

²Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA

³Amity Institute of Nanotechnology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India

⁴Department of Chemistry, Institute of Nanoscience and Engineering Technology, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA 01854, USA

⁵Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada

⁶Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA