Transforming Commercial Copper Sulfide into Injectable Hydrogels for Local Photothermal Therapy.

ABSTRACT: Photothermal therapy (PTT) is a promising local therapy playing an increasingly important role in tumor treatment. To maximize PTT efficacy, various near-infrared photoabsorbers have been developed. Among them, metal sulfides have attracted considerable interest due to the advantages of good stability and high photothermal conversion efficiency. However, the existing synthesis methods of metal-sulfide-based photoabsorbers suffer from the drawbacks of complicated procedures, low raw material utilization, and poor universality. Herein, we proposed a flexible, adjustable strategy capable of transforming commercial metal sulfides into injectable hydrogels for local PTT. We took copper sulfide (CuS) as a typical example, which has intense second-window near-infrared absorption (1064 nm), to sys

SUBMITTER: Wang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9141692 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature