Figure 11.
A nanoplatform made of a silica-coated carbon nanocomposite with redox/NIR/pH stimuli-responsive release ability and superior chemo-photothermal combined antitumor treatment activity. (a) Schematic illustration of synthesis of DOX/MCN@Si-CDs and MCN@Si-CDs. (b) Schematic illustration of chemo-photothermal combined antitumor treatment. (c) Schematic therapy plan for in vivo treatments: ① intravenous injection in rat tail; ② NIR tumor irradiation. (d) Organs and tumor fluorescence images. (e) Excised tumors images. (f) Mice thermal imaging photographs. Reproduced from [136], with permission from © 2020 Elsevier.