Starch Capped Atomically Thin CuS Nanocrystals for Efficient Photothermal Therapy

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Photothermal therapy requires efficient plasmonic nanomaterials with small size, good water dispersibility, and biocompatibility. This work reports a one-pot, 2-min synthesis strategy for ultrathin CuS nanocrystals (NCs) with precisely tunable size and localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR), where a single-starch-layer coating leads to a high LSPR absorption at the near-IR wavelength 980 nm. The CuS NC diameter increases from 4.7 (1 nm height along [101]) to 28.6 nm (4.9 nm height along [001]) accompanied by LSPR redshift from 978 to 1200 nm, as the precursor ratio decreases from 1 to 0.125. Photothermal temperature increases by 38.6 °C in 50 mg L-1 CuS NC solution under laser illumination (980 nm, 1.44 W cm-2 ). Notably, 98.4% of human prostate cancer PC-3/Luc+ cells are killed by as little as 5 mg L-1 starch-coated CuS NCs with 3-min laser treatment, whereas CuS NCs without starch cause insignificant cell death. LSPR modeling discloses that the starch layer enhances the photothermal effect by significantly increasing the free carrier density and blue-shifting the LSPR toward 980 nm. This study not only presents a new type of photothermally highly efficient ultrathin CuS NCs, but also offers in-depth LSPR modeling investigations useful for other photothermal nanomaterial designs.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) - 17(2021), 47 vom: 20. Nov., Seite e2103461

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zheng, Zhiyong [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Ping [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Huili [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Mengyu [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Li E [VerfasserIn]
Ulstrup, Jens [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jingdong [VerfasserIn]
Engelbrekt, Christian [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Lixin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

789U1901C5
9005-25-8
Copper
Copper sulfides
Cupric sulfide
Finite element method
Journal Article
KL4YU612X7
Localized surface plasmon resonances
Nanocrystals
Photothermal effects
Photothermal therapies
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Starch

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Date Completed 30.12.2021

Date Revised 30.12.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/smll.202103461

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM332122891