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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: 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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12967
Description
Summary: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.
ISSN:2041-1723