Advanced Functional Materials
Advanced Functional Materials
5 years ago

Bottom-Up Preparation of Uniform Ultrathin Rhenium Disulfide Nanosheets for Image-Guided Photothermal Radiotherapy

Bottom-Up Preparation of Uniform Ultrathin Rhenium Disulfide Nanosheets for Image-Guided Photothermal Radiotherapy
Liang Cheng, Kai Yang, Guosheng Song, Guanglin Wang, Xuan Yi, Yu Chao, Zhuang Liu, Ziliang Dong, Sida Shen
Facile preparation of multifunctional theranostic nanoplatforms with well-controlled morphology and sizes remains an attractive in the area of nanomedicine. Here, a new kind of 2D transition metal dichalcogenide, rhenium disulfide (ReS2) nanosheets, with uniform sizes, strong near-infrared (NIR) light, and strong X-ray attenuation, is successfully synthesized. After surface modification with poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG), the synthesized ReS2-PEG nanosheets are stable in various physiological solutions. In addition to their contrasts in photoacoustic imaging and X-ray computed tomography imaging because of their strong NIR light and X-ray absorptions, respectively, such ReS2-PEG nanosheets can also be tracked under nuclear imaging after chelator-free labeling with radioisotope ions, 99mTc4+. Efficient tumor accumulation of ReS2-PEG nanosheets is then observed after intravenous injection into tumor-bearing mice under triple-modal imaging. The combined in vivo photothermal radiotherapy is further conducted, achieving a remarkable synergistic tumor destruction effect. Finally, no obvious toxicity of ReS2-PEG nanosheets is observed from the treated mice within 30 d. This work suggests that such ultrathin ReS2 nanosheets with well-controlled morphology and uniform sizes may be a promising type of multifunctional theranostic agent for remotely triggered cancer combination therapy. A one-step bottom-up method is developed to synthesize a new kind of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC), rhenium disulfide (ReS2), with well-defined 2D nanosheet morphology and uniform sizes, for multimodal imaging-guided cancer combination therapy.

Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi

DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201700250

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