Construction of high quality ultrathin lanthanide oxyiodide nanosheets for enhanced CT imaging and anticancer drug delivery to efficient cancer theranostics

Two-dimensional (2D) ultrathin nanomaterials have shown extensive attention and potential biomedical applications in cancer theranostics. Herein, for the first time, we report the synthesis of monodisperse ultrathin lanthanum oxyiodide (LaOI) nanosheets with a thickness of merely 3 nm based on a facile wet chemistry strategy. By tuning the solvent composition and molar ratios of the precursors, we can modulate the shape and thickness of the...