“…In recent years, MSNs have emerged as powerful candidates for DDSs and they have been widely used for the codelivery of PA and chemotherapy drugs as a combination therapy (Shu et al, 2018 ; Tian et al, 2018 ). Copper sulfide nanoparticles (CuS NPs) (Chen F. et al, 2015 ; Zhang et al, 2015a , b ; Zhang Y. et al, 2015 ; Peng et al, 2017 ; Wang F. et al, 2018 ; Li et al, 2020 ), polydopamine (PDA) (Zhang et al, 2018 ; Chen C. et al, 2019 ), gold nanorods (AuNR) (Zhang et al, 2012 ; Liu et al, 2015 ; Huang et al, 2017 ; Ramasamy et al, 2018 ; Sun X. et al, 2018 ; Wang Y. et al, 2019 ), gold shells (Rahman et al, 2017 ), reduced graphene oxide (rGO) (Liu et al, 2019 ), GO (Tang et al, 2015 ; Tran et al, 2018 ) and carbon dots (CDs) (Singh et al, 2016 ; Zhang et al, 2020b ) are common PAs introduced in the PTT-chemotherapy systems.…”