Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

Biodegradable black phosphorus-based nanospheres for in vivo photothermal cancer therapy

  • Jundong Shao,
  • Hanhan Xie,
  • Hao Huang,
  • Zhibin Li,
  • Zhengbo Sun,
  • Yanhua Xu,
  • Quanlan Xiao,
  • Xue-Feng Yu,
  • Yuetao Zhao,
  • Han Zhang,
  • Huaiyu Wang,
  • Paul K. Chu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12967
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Black phosphorus is a biodegradable 2D material that has attracted growing interest in biomedicine. Here, the authors carry out in vitro and in vivoexperiments to demonstrate that nanospheres loaded with black-phosphorus quantum dots perform as promising phothermal cancer therapy agents.