Magnetic nanoparticles: recent developments in drug delivery system

Abstract

Nanostructured functional materials have demonstrated their great potentials in medical applications, attracting increasing attention because of the opportunities in cancer therapy and the treatment of other ailments. This article reviews the problems and recent advances in the development of magnetic NPs for drug delivery.

Keywords:

• Magnetic nanoparticles
• drug delivery system
• pharmacokinetics
• biodistribution
• drug loading

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Funding

This work was financially supported by The National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFA0205502, 2017YFA0104301], The National Natural Science Foundation of China for Key Project of International Cooperation [61420106012], National Natural Science Foundation of China (81473160), the Basic Research Program of Jiangsu Province (Natural Science Foundation, No. BK20151422), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2242014R30013 and 2242016K40033), National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (No. 2013AA032205), and Qing Lan Project. This work is supported by Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology.