Supramolecular magnetogels as nanocarriers for multimodal cancer therapy

Superparamagnetic manganese ferrite (MnFe2O4) nanoparticles were successfully incorporated into self-assembled peptide-derived hydrogels. The magnetogels were evaluated as drug nanocarriers through fluorescence-based techniques (fluorescence emission, FRET and fluorescence anisotropy).This work was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) in the framework of the Strategic Funding of CF-UM-UP (UID/FIS/04650/2013) and CQUM (UID/QUI/00686/2016). FCT, FEDER, PORTUGAL2020 and COMPETE2020 are also acknowledged for funding under research projects PTDC/QUI-QFI/28020/2017 (POCI-01- 0145-FEDER-028020) and PTDC/QUI-QOR/29015/2017 (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029015). S.R.S.V. and A.R.O.R. acknowledge FCT for research grants under UID/FIS/04650/2013 funding.