Nanomaterials heat up tumors
(Nanowerk News) Nanorods made of bismuth sulfide kill tumor cells with heat when they are irradiated with near-infrared light (NIR). Chinese scientists are now making these weapons more powerful by remodeling the defect state of the nanorod crystal lattice by adding gold nanodots. As reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie (“Deep-Level Defect Enhanced Photothermal Performance of Bismuth Sulfide–Gold Heterojunction Nanorods for Photothermal Therapy of Cancer Guided by Computed Tomography Imaging”), this could be a good basis for more effective photothermal treatment of tumors.
