The effect of metal oxide nanoparticles in breast cancer treatment

Abstract

Nano-sized materials have been mostly used in scientific studies recently due to their many functional properties and wide application areas. Among them, metal oxide nanostructures are the most interesting materials. In particular, zinc oxide (ZnO) is a wide band gap semiconductor with properties suitable for cancer therapy studies. When ZnO is doped with various transition metals such as Fe, Mn, its properties such as band gap energy, morphology and crystalline structure can be changed. ZnO nanoparticles can be synthesized by many synthesis methods such as sol-gel, hydrothermal, CVD, co-precipitation. In the present study, the nanoparticles are prepared using sol-gel method for the breast cancer treatment.