The facile synthesis of hollow Au nanoflowers for synergistic chemo-photothermal cancer therapy

A novel, mild and facile synthetic route was first developed to fabricate hollow Au nanoflowers (designated as H-AuNFs) with drug loading capacity, superior photothermal conversion property and pH/NIR dual-responsive drug delivery performance for chemo-photothermal synergistic cancer therapy in vitro and in vivo.