Stimuli-responsive nanozymes for biomedical applications.

With the rapid development of nanotechnology, nanozymes are regarded as excellent substitutes for natural enzymes due to their high activity, convenient preparation, low cost, robust stability and other unique properties of nanomaterials. In biomedical applications, the always-on activity of nanozymes is undesirable as it poses a potential threat to normal tissues. Stimuli-responsive nanozymes were designed to manipulate the activities of nanozymes. This review introduces two types of stimuli-responsive nanozymes. One is smart responsive nanozymes with stimuli-switchable activities, further divided into those with on/off switchable activity and one/another switchable activity. Another is nanozymes exhibiting responsive release from specific carriers. Additionally, the biomedical applications of stimuli-responsive nanozymes in cancer therapy, antibacterial therapy, biosensing and anti-inflammatory therapy are briefly reviewed. Finally, we address the challenges and prospects in this field.

• Publication year

  2023

• Venue

  Biomaterials Science

• Publication date

  2023-07-17

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Materials Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1039/d3bm00884cPMID 37458727
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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