Journal
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201906311
Keywords
chiral molybdenum oxide; metal-ligand charge transfer chirality; photothermal therapy; visible- and NIR-light dual responsive
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31600611]
- Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society (AIRS)
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Chirality-based semiconducting nanocrystals, as an emerging area, are envisioned to have great potential in chiral sensing, biomedicine, and chiroptical devices. Herein, chiral substoichiometric molybdenum oxide (l/d-Cys-MoO3-x) nanoparticles are synthesized via step-by-step reduction treatment with chiral cysteine molecules. The obtained nanoparticles are used as visible- and near-infrared-light dual responsive photothermal therapy agent for tumor cell ablation. Notably, the chiral nanoparticles show chiral selectivity for incident light, i.e., when irradiated by left-circularly polarized light, l-Cys-MoO3-x is the most sensitive agent giving the highest mortality for HeLa cell ablation in vitro, and vice versa for right-circularly polarized light with d-Cys-MoO3-x. In comparison to traditional photothermal therapy with near-field light source, the investigations with chiral visible light at 532 nm indicate the possibility of chiral Cys-MoO3-x nanoparticles for visible light-based phototherapy via metal-ligand charge transfer chirality, which provides insights for new methods in nanotechnology supported photothermal treatments.
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