Fig. 2From: Unsymmetrical cyanine dye via in vivo hitchhiking endogenous albumin affords high-performance NIR-II/photoacoustic imaging and photothermal therapya HOMO and LUMO wave functions in the geometrically optimized structures of ICG-COOH and NIC. b–c The possible interaction modeling between NIC-ER and albumin. b Docking modeling for the NIC-ER @albumin complex. c Details of binding residues and active pocket between NIC-ER and albuminBack to article page