A stimuli-responsive porous carbon nanovehicle for light-initiating and thermo-driving phototheranostics of renal cell carcinoma

fluorescent imaging of tumor sites. As a proof of concept, two nanovehicles, ICG@NCZIF and MB@NCZIF, are separately prepared and systematically compared. The better-performed ICG@NCZIF is further used in in vivo phototheranostics of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and exhibits satisfactory results of tumor inhibition and accurate tumor imaging. Thus, the as-designed phototheranostics nanovehicle ICG@NCZIF holds potential for (pre)clinical translational development.