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Preparing CdS QDs in sodium alginate gel: realizing water-solubility and stimuli-responsiveness of QDs in an integrative way
摘要： Quantum dots (QDs) were of great interest due to the excellent fluorescence property and have been widely studied. Comparing with the typical organometallic synthetic routes and hydrothermal method that were usually carried out under high temperature, colloidal template could be used for preparing QDs in mild conditions and have gained increasing attention. In this prospect, hydrogel was an ideal colloidal template for preparation of QDs in aqueous medium while the related study for in-situ preparation of QDs in gel and the consequent functionalization of QDs was in demand. In this paper, we proposed a two-step method to prepare CdS QDs in sodium alginate (SA) gel which showed effective constraint in uniform size distribution of QDs. Without extra ligands introduction, the prepared CdS-SA QDs showed responsiveness to pH and detectability to Fe3+ which provide a simplified way for functionalization of QDs. The CdS-SA QDs showed good biocompatibility and stability in a certain concentration which indicated the application prospect of the CdS-SA QDs in fields of biological labeling and environmental sensor.
关键词： gel,stimuli responsiveness,pH,Sodium alginate,CdS QDs
更新于2025-09-19 17:15:36
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Combination of light-driven co-delivery of chemodrugs and plasmonic-induced heat for cancer therapeutics using hybrid protein nanocapsules
摘要： Background: Improving the water solubility of hydrophobic drugs, increasing their accumulation in tumor tissue and allowing their simultaneous action by different pathways are essential issues for a successful chemotherapeutic activity in cancer treatment. Considering potential clinical application in the future, it will be promising to achieve such purposes by developing new biocompatible hybrid nanocarriers with multimodal therapeutic activity. Results: We designed and characterised a hybrid nanocarrier based on human serum albumin/chitosan nanoparticles (HSA/chitosan NPs) able to encapsulate free docetaxel (DTX) and doxorubicin?modified gold nanorods (DOXO?GNRs) to simultaneously exploit the complementary chemotherapeutic activities of both antineoplasic compounds together with the plasmonic optical properties of the embedded GNRs for plasmonic?based photothermal therapy (PPTT). DOXO was assembled onto GNR surfaces following a layer?by?layer (LbL) coating strategy, which allowed to partially control its release quasi?independently release regarding DTX under the use of near infrared (NIR)?light laser stimulation of GNRs. In vitro cytotoxicity experiments using triple negative breast MDA?MB?231 cancer cells showed that the developed dual drug encapsulation approach produces a strong synergistic toxic effect to tumoral cells compared to the administration of the combined free drugs; additionally, PPTT enhances the cytostatic efficacy allowing cell toxicities close to 90% after a single low irradiation dose and keeping apoptosis as the main cell death mechanism. Conclusions: This work demonstrates that by means of a rational design, a single hybrid nanoconstruct can simultaneously supply complementary therapeutic strategies to treat tumors and, in particular, metastatic breast cancers with good results making use of its stimuli?responsiveness as well as its inherent physico?chemical properties.
关键词： Multimodal therapy,Gold nanorods,Photo?therapy,Stimuli?responsiveness,Human serum albumin nanoparticles
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59
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Supramolecular Valves Functionalized Rattle-Structured UCNPs@hm-SiO2 Nanoparticles with Controlled Drug Release Triggered by Quintuple Stimuli and Dual-modality Imaging Functions: A Potential Theranostic Nanomedicine
摘要： Integrating multimodality bioimaging and multiple stimuli-responsive controlled drug release properties into one single nanosystem for therapeutic application is highly desirable, but still remains a challenge. Herein, we coated a hollow mesoporous silica shell onto upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs), conjugated pillarene-based supramolecular valves onto surface of UCNPs@hm-SiO2 using amine-coumarin phototriggers to obtain the multifunctional nanoparticles, UCNPs@hm-SiO2-Cou-Cys-DOX/WP[5]. Benefiting from the core-shell structured UCNPs, the UCNPs@hm-SiO2-Cou-Cys-DOX/WP[5] can serve as the efficient contrast agents for upconversion luminescence and T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in vitro/in vivo. More importantly, depending on exquisitely designed supramolecular valves, UCNPs@hm-SiO2-Cou-Cys-DOX/WP[5] can realize zero-premature release under normal physiological conditions (pH 7.4), which produces the minimal damage to normal tissue, whereas this nanosystem can respond to several disease-related signals including acid (most cancers), alkali (metabolic alkalosis), and Zn2+ (Alzheimer’s disease) along with two external stimuli including near infrared (NIR) light and reductive electrical potential via altering spatial structure of pseudorotaxanes, disassembling the molecular stalks, or undergoing photochemical reactions, ultimately resulting in opening of the gatekeepers and release of encapsulated drugs. The multifunctional UCNP-based nanoparticles were endowed with such quintuple stimuli-responsive controlled release characteristics. Specifically, in anticancer application, the rational utilization of the two of them, acid and NIR light, could regulate the release amount and rate of DOX from UCNPs@hm-SiO2-Cou-Cys-DOX/WP[5], accelerate the accumulation of DOX in cell nuclei and thereby promote the cancer cell apoptosis, indicating that the nanomaterials have promising application in cancer treatment. This study provides a novel design strategy for constructing multifunctional UCNP-based nanoparticles with multiple stimuli-responsive drug release features, which have great potential in diagnosis and therapy of relevant diseases as theranostic nanomedicines.
关键词： upconversion nanoparticles,Supramolecular nanovalve,theranostic nanoplatform,quintuple stimuli-responsiveness
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59