This invited Team Profile was created by the Zheng Lab (UHN, Toronto, Canada), the CEPOF BioPhotonics Lab (USP, São Carlos, Brazil), and the BiOPI Lab (UC Chile, Santiago, Chile). They recently published an article on an Indocyanine Green (ICG) nanoemulsion in which 100 % dimerization and J-aggregation occurs spontaneously afford a nanostructured shell of dimeric ICG (Nano-dICG). This material demonstrates superior photothermal conversion efficiency, photostability, and structure stability over ICG, giving an ultra-stable phototheranostic platform for photoacoustic imaging and effective photothermal therapy. "Nanostructure-Driven Indocyanine Green Dimerization Generates Ultra-Stable Phototheranostics Nanoparticles", N. Kwon, G. O. Jasinevicius, G. Kassab, L. Ding, J. Bu, L. P. Martinelli, V. G. Ferreira, A. Dhaliwal, H. H. L. Chan, Y. Mo, V. S. Bagnato, C. Kurachi, J. Chen, G. Zheng, H. H. Buzzá, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202305564.
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