Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Degradable mesoporous semimetal antimony nanospheres for near-infrared II multimodal theranostics

  • Yu Chen,
  • Zhongzheng Yu,
  • Kai Zheng,
  • Yaguang Ren,
  • Meng Wang,
  • Qiang Wu,
  • Feifan Zhou,
  • Chengbo Liu,
  • Liwei Liu,
  • Jun Song,
  • Junle Qu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27835-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The properties of mesoporous nanomaterials have been exploited for several applications, including drug delivery and NIR-II photoacoustic imaging. Here, the authors design monodispersed semimetallic mesoporous antimony nanospheres with photothermal conversion efficiency in the second near-infrared range and drug loading capacity, showing their potential for cancer photothermal/chemo therapy.