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Nanomedicines hold great potential in anticancer therapy by modulating the biodistribution of nanomaterials and initiating targeted oxidative stress damage, but they are also limited by the inherent self-protection mechanism and the evolutionary treatment resistance of cancer cells. New emerging explorations of regulated cell death (RCD), including processes related to autophagy, ferroptosis, pyroptosis, and necroptosis, substantially contribute to the augmented therapeutic efficiency of tumors by increasing the sensitivity of cancer cells to apoptosis. Herein, paradigmatic studies of RCD-mediated synergistic tumor nanotherapeutics are introduced, such as regulating autophagy-enhanced photodynamic therapy (PDT), targeting ferroptosis-sensitized sonodynamic therapy (SDT), inducing necroptosis-augmented photothermal therapy (PTT), and initiating pyroptosis-collaborative chemodynamic therapy (CDT), and the coordination mechanisms are discussed in detail. Multiangle analyses addressing the present challenges and upcoming prospects of RCD-based nanomedicines have also been highlighted and prospected for their further strengthening and the broadening of their application scope. It is believed that up-and-coming coadjutant therapeutic methodologies based on RCDs will considerably impact precision nanomedicine for cancer.

A hierarchical porous zeolite composite possessing β-zeolite cores and Y-zeolite polycrystalline shells (denoted as BFZ) is synthesized by a two-step hydrothermal crystallization procedure and characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), N2 adsorption−desorption, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), selected area electron diffraction (SAED), energy-dispersive spectrometry (EDS), NMR, intelligent gravimetric analyzer (IGA), and in situ infrared (IR) spectrometry of pyridine. The results show that a hierarchical pore structure with the pore size centered around 6.9, 10.3, and 16 nm is created in the composite. A more than 2 orders of magnitude gas transport improvement is, therefore, achieved in the composite as compared with the corresponding physical mixture. The conversion of liquid-phase hydrogenation of benzene over H-BFZ supported by 3 wt % Ru is much higher than those over H-Y or H-β-zeolites supported by the same Ru loading due to the improved diffusion and acid accessibility as well as the enhanced Ru dispersion because of the introduction of hierarchical pores.

Core–shell microspheres with BEA and FAU zeolite structures (denoted as BEA–FAU) were prepared through a two-step hydrothermal crystallization process in which a β-zeolite was used as silicon source for the synthesis of Y zeolite as well as a template for the formation of hollow sphere. Scaning electron microscopy and intrusive mercury experiments displayed the as-synthesized sample had extra-large pores of 2–3 µm; a possible formation mechanism of BEA–FAU hollow spheres was proposed and discussed.

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