The data provided in this study are related to the fabrication of two light-responsive systems based on reduced graphene oxide (rGO) functionalized with the polymers Pluronic P123 (P123), rGO-P123, and polyethyleneimine (PEI), rGO-PEI, and loaded with amphotericin B (AmB), an antileishmanial drug. Here are described the experimental design to obtain the systems and characterization methods, such as Attenuated Total Reflectance-Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), Raman Spectroscopy, Powder X-Ray Diffraction, Transmission Electron Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy and Thermogravimetric Analyses. Also, AmB spectroscopy studies are described. The materials rGO-P123 and rGO-PEI were loaded with AmB and the optimization of AmB and polymer fragments structures revealed several possible hydrogen bonds formed between the materials and the drug. The drug release was analyzed with and without Near-Infrared (NIR) light. In the studies conducted under NIR light irradiation for 10 min, an infrared lamp was disposed at 64 cm from the samples and an optical fiber thermometer was employed to measure the temperature variation. Cytotoxicity studies and antiproliferative assays against
Leishmania amazonensis
promastigotes were evaluated. The complete work data entitled Amphotericin-B-Loaded Polymer-Functionalized Reduced Graphene Oxides for
Leishmania amazonensis
Chemo-Photothermal Therapy have been published to Colloids and Surfaces B: Bionterfaces (
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2021.112169
)
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