Liu, X, Chen, H-J, Chen, X et al. (3 more authors) (2015) Radiofrequency heating of nanomaterials for cancer treatment: Progress, controversies, and future development. Applied Physics Reviews, 2 (1). ARTN 011103. ISSN 1931-9401
Abstract
In recent years, the application of nanomaterials to biological and biomedicine areas has attracted intensive interest. One of the hot topics is the nanomaterial mediated radiofrequency (RF) hyperthermia or ablation, i.e., using RF fields/waves to heat tumor tissues treated with nanomaterials to destroy cancerous cells while minimizing the side-heating effect. However, there are currently many contradictive results reported concerning the heating effect of nanomaterials under a RF field. This paper provided a comprehensive review to nanomaterial mediated RF ablation from both experimental and theoretical aspects. Three heating mechanisms were discussed, i.e., laser heating, magnetic field heating, and electric field heating in RF spectrum, with the focus on the last one. The results showed that while diluted pure metallic nanoparticles could be heated significantly by a laser through the surface plasmon resonance, they cannot be easily heated by a RF electric field. Further studies are proposed focusing on nanoparticle structure and morphology, electromagnetic frequency and localized heating effect to pave the way for future development.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 AIP Publishing LLC. The following article appeared in Applied Physics Reviews and may be found at https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4915002. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Nanomaterials; radiofrequency; heating; nanomedicine; hyperthermia; specific absorption rate |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Chemical & Process Engineering (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 05 May 2016 12:58 |
Last Modified: | 02 Feb 2020 22:15 |
Published Version: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4915002 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | American Institute of Physics (AIP) |
Identification Number: | 10.1063/1.4915002 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:94741 |