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ArticleNano letters2026

LED-Modulated Plasmoporation for Highly Efficient Intracellular Cargo Delivery to Suspension Cells.

Hamin Na, Junhee Han, Seoyeon Cho, Young-Gil Cha, Eun-Sil Yu, Jaehun Jeon, Min Chung, Ji-Ho Park, Ki-Hun Jeong

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Article in Nano letters, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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9 authors.

Hamin NaDepartment of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon34141, Republic of Korea.
Junhee HanDepartment of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon34141, Republic of Korea.
Seoyeon ChoDepartment of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon34141, Republic of Korea.
Young-Gil ChaDepartment of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon34141, Republic of Korea.
Eun-Sil YuDepartment of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon34141, Republic of Korea.
Jaehun JeonDepartment of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon34141, Republic of Korea.
Min ChungDepartment of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon34141, Republic of Korea.
Ji-Ho ParkDepartment of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon34141, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-0721-0428
Ki-Hun JeongDepartment of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon34141, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-4799-7816

Funding

Ministry of Food and Drug Safety RS-2026-25542041Ministry of Health and Welfare RS-2026-25542041Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea RS-2026-25542041Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy RS-2024-00432381Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy RS-2026-25542041National Research Foundation of Korea RS-2025-00523089
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intracellular delivery of bioactive cargoes remains a major bottleneck in engineering therapeutic cellular responses. Here we report LED-modulated plasmoporation driven by the plasmonic photothermal effect of large-area gold nanoislands (AuNIs) for highly efficient cargo delivery into suspension cells. Plasmoporation operates through a sequential microfluidic network with AuNIs and a white LED module. LED-modulated mild photothermal cycling induces transient membrane phase transition and poration, followed by thermal relaxation for membrane recovery. Precisely controlled LED modulation shows intracellular delivery of propidium iodide into Jurkat cells with 80% delivery efficiency and 93% cell viability. Arrhenius-model-based analysis of LED-modulated temperature pulse-trains identifies an optimal cumulative cellular thermal damage (Ω) range of 0.11-0.15, yielding ≥70% delivery efficiency while maintaining high cell viability. Plasmoporation further demonstrates intracellular delivery of macromolecules up to 2000 kDa with delivery efficiencies exceeding 50%. This low-power, scalable plasmoporation offers a new approach for high-throughput immune cell engineering and therapeutic intracellular delivery.

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Drug Delivery SystemsGoldMetal NanoparticlesPropidiumCell SurvivalHumansJurkat CellsGoldPropidiumCell therapyIntracellular deliveryLED modulationNanoplasmonicPlasmoporationSuspension cell

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PMID42584266
PMCPMC13475045

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