Polyoxometalates based nanocomposites for bioapplications

Abstract Health care and medical care have always been dominant topics in human society. The field of precision medicine, iatrotechnics revolution and timely on‐demand detection have continued to evolve in response to increasing demands from the society. Furthermore, the emergence of innovative materials and their applications offer promising prospects for advancing global health. Polyoxometalates (POMs) are negatively‐charged molecular metal oxides with well‐defined structures, beautiful geometries and nanoscale sizes. Owing to their vast diversity in composition, structure, nuclearity and charge, they constitute a significant subcategory of inorganic clusters that contain bridging oxygen atoms between two or more metal ions. Nowadays, POMs based nanocomposites have been widely applied in the field of disease diagnosis, anticancer therapy and antibacterial therapy as new generation bioactive materials. In this review, the recent advances of POMs based nanocomposites in bioapplications are summarized and the future perspectives are discussed.