Emerging Plasmonic Nanoparticles and Their Assemblies for Cancer Radiotherapy.

Plasmonic nanoparticles and their assemblies have been widely used in biosensing, optical imaging, and biomedicine over the past few decades. Especially in the field of radiotherapy, the physicochemical properties of high-Z plasmonic nanomaterials endow them with the ability to sensitize radiotherapy. Compared with single particles, the assembled structure with tunable properties leads to versatile applications in drug delivery and cancer treatment. In this review, we focus on plasmonic nanoparticles and their assemblies for cancer radiotherapy. First, the sensitization mechanism of plasmonic radiosensitizers is briefly introduced. Subsequently, the recent progress in cancer radiotherapy is systematically discussed according to the structure and shape classification. Finally, the current challenges and future perspectives in this field are also discussed in detail.

• Publication year

  2023

• Venue

  Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

• Publication date

  2023-01-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Materials Science, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1016/j.addr.2023.114710PMID 36708774
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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