This review provides a perspective on porous silicon (pSi)–based nanomaterials including
nanoparticles, nanowires, and thin films, that are currently being used in advanced therapy …

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is an anticancer drug target for a number of
cancers, such as non-small cell lung cancer. However, unsatisfying treatment effects, terrible …

There is a dire need to develop more effective therapeutics to combat brain cancer such as
glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). An ideal treatment is expected to target deliver …

Chemotherapy is one of the main treatment methods for osteosarcoma. However,
conventional chemotherapy lacks targeting properties, and its long-term and extensive use …

Surface engineering of the nanomaterials opens a new era of their biomedical applications.
To date, various kinds of nanoparticles and their surface engineering techniques have been …

Silicon particles have garnered attention as promising biomedical probes for hyperpolarized
29Si magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy. However, due to the limited levels of …

A nano-formulation based on gadolinium silicate-coated porous silicon nanoparticles
(pSiNPs) is newly disclosed as an MRI contrast agent and drug delivery carrier. In this study …

Lanthanide based luminescent materials have attracted extensive attention in a wide range
of fields including chemistry, biology and logic due to the narrow emission band, long decay …

In this work we report a first-time combination of porous silicon (pSi) particles with the
immunologic adjuvant Pam3CSK4, a TLR 1/2 agonist, as a tool for immunotherapy. pSi is a …

At present, multimodal probes for fluorescence and magnetic resonance imaging based on
gadolinium-silicon hybrid nanoparticles have been reported. However, the existing …