Carboxymethyl chitosan/ionic liquid imidazolium-based nanoparticles as nanocarriers for zinc phthalocyanine and its photodynamic activity

New nanocarriers have contributed to develop the so-called third-generation photosensitizers for use in the photodynamic therapy (PDT). In this paper, nanoparticles based on carboxymethyl chitosan (CMC) and a monocationic ionic liquid imidazolium-based (IL) (1-dodecyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide, C12MIMBr), loaded with photosensitizer zinc phthalocyanine (ZnPc) was developed for application in PDT. The CMC/[email protected] nanoparticles were...