Inside Cover: Biomineralization of Versatile CuS/Gd2O3 Hybrid Nanoparticles for MR Imaging and Antitumor Photothermal Chemotherapy (Chem. Asian J. 17/2016).

Versatile BSA ‐ CuS/Gd2O3 hybrid nanoparticles are fabricated by a facile one ‐ pot albumin ‐ mediated biomineralization strategy. The obtained multifunctional nanoparticles exhibit strong longitudinal relaxivity, an outstanding photothermal effect, high drug ‐ loading capacity, and pH/temperature ‐ responsive drug release. The drug ‐ loaded BSA ‐ CuS/Gd2O3 hybrid nanoparticles offer an outstanding synergistic antitumor photothermal chemotherapeutic effect both in vitro and in vivo. This work thus provides technical guidance for designing theranostic agents in a simple way. More information can be found in the Full Paper by Yan ‐ Yan Fu et   al. on page   2458 in Issue 17, 2016 (DOI: 10.1002/asia.201600920). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]