Figure 8.

(a) Schematic of degradable and renal-clearable Re NCs for tumor diagnosis and therapy (reproduced with permission from Ref. [131], Copyright 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry); (b) scheme of the exfoliation process of PVP capped ReS₂ nanosheets for bimodality PA and CT-imaging-guided photothermal therapy (reproduced with permission from Ref. [132], Copyright 2018, Wiley-VCH); (c) a schematic illustration of the utReS₂@RSV–FA synthesis for tumor-targeted chemo-photothermal therapy (reproduced with permission from Ref. [135], Copyright 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry); (d) schematic illustration of PEG−ReS₂ nanosheets employed for in vivo breast cancer therapy study (reproduced with permission from Ref. [134], Copyright 2022, MDPI). NCs, nanoclusters; PVP, polyvinyl pyrrolidone; CT, computed tomography; PA, photoacoustic imaging; PEG, polyethylene glycol.