Stimuli-Responsive Nanomaterials for Application in Antitumor Therapy and Drug Delivery

The new era of nanotechnology has produced advanced nanomaterials applicable to various fields of medicine, including diagnostic bio-imaging, chemotherapy, targeted drug delivery, and biosensors. Various materials are formed into nanoparticles, such as gold nanomaterials, carbon quantum dots, and li...

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Published inPharmaceutics Vol. 12; no. 7; p. 630
Main Authors Pham, Son H, Choi, Yonghyun, Choi, Jonghoon
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI 04.07.2020
MDPI AG
Subjects
drug delivery
nanomedicine
nanoparticles
Review
stimuli-responsive
nanomedicine
nanoparticles
drug delivery
stimuli-responsive
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Summary:The new era of nanotechnology has produced advanced nanomaterials applicable to various fields of medicine, including diagnostic bio-imaging, chemotherapy, targeted drug delivery, and biosensors. Various materials are formed into nanoparticles, such as gold nanomaterials, carbon quantum dots, and liposomes. The nanomaterials have been functionalized and widely used because they are biocompatible and easy to design and prepare. This review mainly focuses on nanomaterials responsive to the external stimuli used in drug-delivery systems. To overcome the drawbacks of conventional therapeutics to a tumor, the dual- and multi-responsive behaviors of nanoparticles have been harnessed to improve efficiency from a drug delivery point of view. Issues and future research related to these nanomaterial-based stimuli sensitivities and the scope of stimuli-responsive systems for nanomedicine applications are discussed.
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Authors contributed equally.
ISSN:1999-4923
1999-4923
DOI:10.3390/pharmaceutics12070630