Remote‐Controllable Explosive Polymer Multilayer Tubes for Rapid Cancer Cell Killing

• DOI: 10.1002/marc.201500207
• Publication Date: 2015-06-20T00:23:40Z
• Authors: Zhiguang Wu; Changyong Gao; Johannes Frueh; Jianming Sun; Qiang He
• Keywords: Nanoshell

Gold nanoshell-functionalized polymer multilayer tubes can be used as potent therapeutic agents for remote killing of cancer cells in a controlled manner due to the emerging pressure wave and tube fragments piercing cell wall. The explosion is based on rapid evaporation water inside caused by photothermal effects. mechanism presented theory experiment. depends absorption coefficient size gold nanoshells tubes, whereby placement particles or outside has no obvious effect explosive properties.