A single-step plasma method for rapid production of 2D, ferromagnetic, surface vacancy-engineered MoO3−x nanomaterials, for photothermal ablation of cancer
- 21 February 2023
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Nanotechnology
- Vol. 34 (19), 195601
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/acb827
Abstract
A rapid, clean plasma-chemical technique is demonstrated here, for cost-effective, synthesis of surface vacancy engineered, 2D, molybdenum-oxide nanomaterials, during a one-step, integrated synthesis-hydrogenation process for biomedical applications. A laminar plasma beam populated with O and H radicals impinges on a molybdenum target, out of which molybdenum-oxide nanomaterials are very rapidly generated with controlled surface O vacancies. 2D, dark-blue coloured, nano-flake/ribbon like MoO3-x is produced maximum up to 194 g h(-1), the core of which still remains as stoichiometric molybdenum-oxide. These nanomaterials can get heated-up by absorbing energy from a near-infrared (NIR) laser, which enable them as photothermal therapy (PTT) candidate material for the invasive precision therapy of cancer. The surface defects endows the products with robust ferromagnetism at room temperature conditions (maximum saturation-magnetization: 6.58 emu g(-1)), which is order of magnitude stronger than most other vacancy engineered nanomaterials. These nanometric metal-oxides are observed to be perfectly compatible in animal physiological environment and easily dispersed in an aqueous solution even without any pre-treatment. The MoO3-x nanomaterials are stable against further oxidation even under prolonged atmospheric exposure. In vitro experiments confirm that they have ideal efficacy for photothermal ablation of human and murine melanoma cancer at relatively lower dose. During in vivo PTT treatments, they may be manipulated with a simple external magnetic field for targeted delivery at the malignant tumours. It is demonstrated that commensurate to the neutralization of the malignant cells, the nanomaterials themselves get self-degraded, which should get easily excreted out of the body.Keywords
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