“…Drug release can then occur via leakage from the nanocarrier or as a result of nanoparticle degradation. Accelerated drug release can also be triggered using particles or linkages that are sensitive to the acidic tumor microenvironment (Kanamala, Wilson, Yang, Palmer, & Wu, 2016), hypoxia (Thambi, Park, & Lee, 2016), light (Linsley & Wu, 2017), ultrasound (Boissenot, Bordat, Fattal, & Tsapis, 2016), or temperature (Mura, Nicolas, & Couvreur, 2013;Sánchez-Moreno, de Vicente, Nardecchia, Marchal, & Boulaiz, 2018). Rapid/triggered drug release can lead to a transient spike in the local concentration of drug and result in improved therapeutic efficacy.…”