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Although phthalocyanines (Pcs) have attracted huge attention as efficient photosensitizers, their clinical applications are hindered by poor solubility and a tendency to aggregate. Herein, two different Pcs that have different polarities were loaded into bacterial cellulose nanoparticles via non-covalent interactions. The aggregation behaviors and singlet oxygen production efficiencies were studied, as well as the influence of the Pc polarity on loading ratios. It was observed that octa-propylsulfonyl phthalocyanine ZnPc(SO2Pr)8, which has a more polar structure, loaded more on bacterial cellulose nanocrystal. Also, singlet oxygen generation efficiency of ZnPc(SO2Pr)8 was harmoniously increased with the loading ratio. The result indicated that both of the phthalocyanine\/bacterial cellulose nanocrystal (Pc\/BCNs) systems produced singlet oxygen and could be used as potential photosensitizers in PDT, especially ZnPc(SO2Pr)8, due to the high loading ratio.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/molecules31081232","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,8]],"date-time":"2026-04-08T15:26:39Z","timestamp":1775661999000},"page":"1232","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Effect of Phthalocyanines Substitution Pattern on Their Loading into Bacterial Cellulose Nanocrystals"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"31","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7719-7652","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zeynel","family":"\u015eahin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Marmara University, 34854 Istanbul, T\u00fcrkiye"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3029","DOI":"10.1002\/cncr.33587","article-title":"The ever-increasing importance of cancer as a leading cause of premature death worldwide","volume":"127","author":"Bray","year":"2021","journal-title":"Cancer"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1177\/20503121211034366","article-title":"New approaches and procedures for cancer treatment: Current perspectives","volume":"9","author":"Debela","year":"2021","journal-title":"SAGE Open Med."},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Sim\u00f5es, M.M., Paiva, K.L., de Souza, I.F., Mello, V.C., Martins da Silva, I.G., Souza, P.E.N., Muehlmann, L.A., and B\u00e1o, S.N. 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