Authors
Hui Wang, Jing Di, Yubing Sun, Jianping Fu, Zengyan Wei, Hiroshi Matsui, Alejandra del C. Alonso, Shuiqin Zhou
Publication date
2015/9
Journal
Advanced Functional Materials
Volume
25
Issue
34
Pages
5537-5547
Description
This work designs a class of biocompatible PEG‐chitosan@CDs hybrid nanogels by integrating nonlinear poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG), chitosan, and graphitic carbon dots (CDs) into a single nanoparticle for two‐photon fluorescence (TPF) bioimaging, pH and near‐infrared (NIR) light dual‐responsive drug release, and synergistic therapy. Such hybrid nanogels can be simply prepared from a one‐pot surfactant‐free precipitation polymerization of the PEG macromonomers complexed with chitosan and CDs in water, resulting in a semi‐interpenetration of chitosan chains and an immobilization of CDs in the nonlinear PEG networks. The embedded CDs in hybrid nanogels not only serve as an excellent confocal and TPF imaging contrast agent and fluorescent pH‐sensing probe, but also enhance the loading capacity of the hybrid nanogels for hydrophobic anticancer drug. The chitosan can induce a pH‐sensitive …
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