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To overcome premature drug leakage and instability in drug delivery systems, we designed tri-stimuliresponsive multiwalled carbon nanotubes covered by mesoporous silica graft poly(N-isopropylacryla-mide-block-poly(2-(4-formylbenzoyloxy) ethyl methacrylate) multifunctional materials via disulfidelinkages (MWCNTs@MSN-s-s-g-PNIPAM-b-PFBEMA). The multifunctional materials could covalentlybind and physically load anticancer drug doxorubicin (DOX), and exhibited pH-, temperature- andreductant-induced multi-stimuli responsiveness, significantly enhancing drug loading capacity andimproving the release dynamics of drug. The DOX-loaded multifunctional materials exhibited theoptimal release behavior in cancer environments compared with in normal cells upon simultaneouslytriggered by these stimuli. It meant that the MWCNTs@MSN-s-s-g-PNIPAM-b-PFBEMA could serve asefficient gatekeepers to control the mesopore on–off and thus to modulate drug release. Themultifunctional materials were proved to be low toxic, whereas the DOX-loaded counterparts had almostthe same toxicity as free DOX to cancer cells. Therefore, the developed multifunctional materials can beused as promising drug controlled delivery platforms for cancer therapy.