Gold nanorods (NRs), pseudo-one-dimensional rod-shaped nanoparticles (NPs), have
become one of the burgeoning materials in the recent years due to their anisotropic shape …

Gold is a precious metal with a characteristic bright and beautiful hue known as the golden
yellow color.(1) As of 2012, a total of 174,100 tons of Au has been mined in human history …

This Review offers a comprehensive review of the colloidal synthesis, mechanistic
understanding, physicochemical properties, and applications of one-dimensional (1D) metal …

Conjugated polymer nanoparticles, considered as a class of promising nanomaterials for
biomedical application, are extensively employed in bioimaging, anti‐microorganism and …

In the field of nanotherapeutics, gaining cellular entry into the cytoplasm of the target cell
continues to be an ultimate challenge. There are many physicochemical factors such as …

The invention of silica-based bioactive glass in the late 1960s has sparked significant
interest in exploring a wide range of silicon-containing biomaterials from the macroscale to …

In this paper, mesoporous silica nanoparticle (MSN) loaded with doxorubicin (DOX) and
capped with tumor-homing/-penetrating peptide tLyP-1-modified tungsten disulfide quantum …

Conjugated polymers have been increasingly studied for photothermal therapy (PTT)
because of their merits including large absorption coefficient, facile tuning of exciton energy …

Camptothecin (CPT), a natural plant alkaloid, has indicated potent antitumor activities via
targeting intracellular topoisomerase I. The promise that CPT holds in therapies is restricted …

This review describes the recent advances in the development of imaging agents based on
silica nanoparticles. Different techniques (magnetic resonance imaging, optical imaging …