4 Conclusions
In summary, novel rod-like carbon nanomaterials (RCNs) were prepared by soft template hydrothermal method with glucose as raw materials, which were proved to have good biocompatibility, excellent drug-loading capacity and high photothermal efficiency. Furthermore, DOX@RCNs were fabricated for integrated photothermal/chemotherapy toward cancer, which was proved to hold high photothermal efficiency, as well as excellent NIR-responsive DOX release properties. In vitro cell experiments indicated that the novel DOX@RCNs have good application prospects in the field of tumor therapy. This research provided a novel NIR-responsive nano platform for combined photothermal/chemotherapy toward cancer.