Issue 24, 2021

Tailor made magnetic nanolights: fabrication to cancer theranostics applications

Abstract

Nanoparticles having magnetic and fluorescent properties could be considered as a gift to materials scientists due to their unique magneto-optical qualities. Multiple component particles can overcome challenges related with a single component and unveil bifunctional/multifunctional features that can enlarge their applications in diagnostic imaging agents and therapeutic delivery vehicles. Bifunctional nanoparticles that have both luminescent and magnetic features are termed as magnetic nanolights. Herein, we present recent progress of magneto-fluorescent nanoparticles (quantum dots based magnetic nanoparticles, Janus particles, and heterocrystalline fluorescent magnetic materials), comprehensively describing fabrication strategies, types, and biomedical applications. In this review, our aim is not only to encompass the preparation strategies of these special types of magneto-fluorescent nanomaterials but also their extensive applications in bioimaging techniques, cancer therapy (targeted and hyperthermic), and sustained release of active agents (drugs, proteins, antibodies, hormones, enzymes, growth factors).

Graphical abstract: Tailor made magnetic nanolights: fabrication to cancer theranostics applications

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
16 jun 2021
Accepted
12 okt 2021
First published
25 okt 2021
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Nanoscale Adv., 2021,3, 6762-6796

Tailor made magnetic nanolights: fabrication to cancer theranostics applications

P. Das, S. Ganguly, S. Margel and A. Gedanken, Nanoscale Adv., 2021, 3, 6762 DOI: 10.1039/D1NA00447F

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