All chemicals were used without purification. Montmorillonite K 10 (MMT) and oleic acid were purchased from Tokyo Kasei (Tokyo, Japan).
Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB, 99%),
mitoxantrone hydrochloride (MIT, 98.0–102.0%), tetraethylene glycol (TEG, C
6H
14O
4), iron(III) acetylacetonate (Fe(acac)
3, 99.9+%) and platinum(II) acetylacetonate (Pt(acac)
2, 99%) were obtained from Sigma-Aldrich (Saint Louis, MO, U.S.). Ethanol (C
2H
5OH, 99.8%) was purchased from Nippon Kayaku (Tokyo, Japan). Tetraethylene glycol (C
6H
14O
4) was obtained from Alfa Aesar (Haverhill, MA, USA). The minimum essential medium (MEM), Dulbecco's modified eagle medium (DMEM), fetal bovine serum (FBS), and penicillin-streptomycin-glutamine (PSG) supplement for the culture medium were purchased from Gibco (Waltham, MA, USA).
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