A Focus Review summarizes design principles and biomedical uses of supramolecular organic–inorganic hybrid nanogels built from self-assembling polysaccharides and nanoparticles.
Key Takeaways
- Recent advances in three representative classes of hybrid systems are summarized
- Magnetic nanogels incorporating iron oxide nanoparticles enable magnetically guided intracellular protein delivery
- Upconversion nanoparticle–nanogel hybrids function as near-infrared light-activatable platforms for photodynamic therapy