Emerging Two‐Dimensional Nanomaterials for Cancer Therapy

Two‐dimensional (2D) nanomaterials have drawn tremendous attention due to their unique physicochemical properties and promising applications in the fields of electronics, energy storage, and catalysis. Recently, the biomedicine community has gradually started to recognize the great potential of these nanostructured materials for biomedical applications – in particular those related to cancer therapy. In this review, we provide a brief overview of a few representative 2D nanomaterials, discuss their preparation strategies and physicochemical properties, and highlight their applications in cancer nanomedicine. We expect that this review will shed some light on the new opportunities associated with 2D nanomaterials for biomedical research. Two‐dimensional (2D) nanomaterials have tremendous potential in biomedicine because of their unique physicochemical properties, especially for cancer diagnosis and therapy. The authors review recent top‐down and bottom‐up preparation strategies for 2D nanomaterials, discuss their physicochemical properties, highlight some applications in cancer theranostics, and elucidate the future development and challenges of 2D nanomaterials in biomedicine.