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Construction of versatile nanotemplate bearing inherent distinctive functions and prominent drug‐carrying capability is an appealing yet significantly challenging task. Here, inspired by the guiding role of surfactant in preparing nanoparticles, an amphiphilic aggregation‐induced emission (AIE) photosensitizer, namely MeOTTVP, is synthesized with attractive near‐infrared (NIR) emission and high‐performance reactive oxygen species production, and followed by dual‐templating‐assisted one‐pot method involving MeOTTVP as the skeleton to fabricate organosilica nanoparticles (AIE‐ONs). The presented AIE‐ONs perfectly inherit the functions of MeOTTVP, and are also capable of loading antibiotics and anticancer drugs. Doxorubicin can be assembled on AIE‐ONs and then capped with hyaluronic acid, endowing the resulting hybrid with NIR fluorescence imaging‐guided synergetic photodynamic/chemotherapy performance, thereby offering boosted anticancer efficacy and reduced side effects. Furthermore, by loading antibiotic rifampicin, the newly obtained AIE‐ONs integrating chemo‐photodynamic antibacterial functions provide broad‐spectrum antibacterial activity and fluorescence monitoring behavior. This study thus not only offers a promising strategy to fabricate NIR nanoparticles on a large scale, but also provides useful insights into designing an advanced theranostic protocol for treating both cancer and bacterial infections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Stimuli-responsive anticancer agents are of particular interest in the field of cancer therapy. Nevertheless, so far stimuli-responsive photothermal agents have been explored with limited success for cancer photothermal therapy (PTT). In this work, as a proof-of-concept, a pH-responsive photothermal nanoconjugate for enhanced PTT efficacy, in which graphene oxide (GO) with broad NIR absorbance and effective photothermal conversion efficiency is selected as a typical model receptor of fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), and grafted cyanine dye (e.g., Cypate) acts as the donor of near-infrared fluorescence (NIRF), is reported for the first time. The conjugate of Cypate-grafted GO exhibits different conformations in aqueous solutions at various pH, which can trigger pH-dependent FRET effect between GO and Cypate and thus induce pH-responsive photothermal effect of GO-Cypate. GO-Cypate exhibits severe cell damage owing to the enhanced photothermal effect in lysosomes, and thus generate synergistic PTT efficacy with tumor ablation upon photoirradiation after a single-dose intravenous injection. The photothermal nanoconjugate with broad NIR absorbance as the effective receptor of FRET can smartly convert emitted NIRF energy from donor cyanine dye into additional photothermal effect for improving PTT. These results suggest that the smart nanoconjugate can act as a promising stimuli-responsive photothermal nanoplatform for cancer therapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]