Abstract
Photothermal therapy has gained great attention as an alternative candidate for radiation therapy or chemotherapy for cancers. However, photothermal agents for photothermal therapy are generally in the form of nanoparticles that are too small to remain in the target tissue, and therefore, the agents are rather quickly removed from the targeted site. Furthermore, conventional photothermal agents are generally expensive or complicated to synthesize. As an approach to these issues, here we present new hydrogels with oxidized alginate ionically crosslinked with Ca2+, bearing polyaniline:poly(sodium 4-styrenesulfonate) (PANI:PSS) nanoparticles in the polymer network. The presented oxidized alginate PANI:PSS hydrogels exhibited excellent injectability as well as a gradual degradation rate from several days to several months depending on the oxidation degree of alginate chains. The presented oxidized alginate PANI:PSS hydrogels showed an excellent photothermal effect even under a neutral pH environment by showing temperature increased to 53 °C in 5 min upon NIR irradiation, which provide strong potential as a candidate for photothermal agent in photothermal therapy.
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