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 …

Radiotherapy (RT), including external beam RT and internal radiation therapy, uses high-
energy ionizing radiation to kill tumor cells. However, ionizing radiation inevitably damages …

Realizing the potential application of chitosan as an effective biomedical hemostatic agent
has become an emerging research hotspot. However, fabricating a flexible chitosan-based …

Currently, a lot of efforts have been applied to diagnosis and treat tumors through the
fabrication of highly-efficient and multi-functional nanomaterials. Superior to other methods …

Noble metal nanoparticles have been sought after in cancer nanomedicine during the past
two decades, owing to the unique localized surface plasmon resonance that induces strong …

Cancer is a life-threatening disease, and there is a significant need for novel technologies to
treat cancer with an effective outcome and low toxicity. Photothermal therapy (PTT) is a …

Functional nanomaterials as nanodrugs based on the self‐assembly of inorganics,
polymers, and biomolecules have showed wide applications in biomedicine and tissue …

The combination of different modalities greatly enhances the anticancer efficacy of each
treatment by combining their merits, showing promising potential in clinical translation …

Phototherapy, including photodynamic therapy and photothermal therapy, mainly relies on
phototherapeutic agents (PAs) to produce heat or toxic reactive oxygen species (ROS) to kill …

Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) is an optical phenomenon produced by an
incident light's impact on the conductive nanoparticles smaller than the light wavelength …