Light-driven liquid metal nanotransformers for biomedical theranostics

Liquid metals are excellent candidate materials for biomedicine, owing to their intriguing optical properties and chemical stability. Here, the authors design multifunctional theranostic liquid metal nanocapsules that, upon irradiation, generate heat and reactive oxygen species and change shape to r...

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Main Authors: Svetlana A. Chechetka, Yue Yu, Xu Zhen, Manojit Pramanik, Kanyi Pu, Eijiro Miyako
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/549a48adf33b4faa8c94d25aa856d42f
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Summary:Liquid metals are excellent candidate materials for biomedicine, owing to their intriguing optical properties and chemical stability. Here, the authors design multifunctional theranostic liquid metal nanocapsules that, upon irradiation, generate heat and reactive oxygen species and change shape to release drugs.