Gold Nanoparticles as Absolute Nanothermometers

Gold Nanoparticles as Absolute Nanothermometers

Nanothermometry is a challenging field that can open the door to intriguing questions ranging from biology and medicine to material sciences. Gold nanorods are excellent candidates to act as nanoprobes because they are reasonably bright emitters upon excitation with a monochromatic source. Gold nanoparticles are commonly used in photothermal therapy as efficient transducers of electromagnetic r...

Gold nanoparticles as cancer theranostic agents

The application of nanotechnology in medicine involves using nanomaterials to develop novel therapeutic and diagnostic modalities. Given the unique physiochemical and optical properties of gold nanoparticle (GNP) such as good biocompatibility, nontoxic nature, surface properties and comparative stability, it has been widely studied in medicine, especially as a cancer theranostic agent. Th...

A systematic review of gold nanoparticles as novel cancer therapeutics

Objective(s):The current systematic study has reviewed the therapeutic potential of gold nanoparticles as nano radiosensitizers for cancer radiation therapy.   Materials and Methods: This study was done to review nano radiosensitizers. PubMed, Ovid Medline, Science Direct, SCOPUS, ISI web of knowledge, Springer databases were searched from 2000 to September 2013 to identify appropriate studies....

Gold Nanoparticles

Nanoparticles have become important materials in modern technologies compared with their bulk analogues not only as a result of their excellent structural features but also as a result of their unusual functional attributes. Most of the bulk materials we use in everyday life such as steel or sand are composed of micrometer scale particles. The properties of a material are related to the bonding...

Gold(0) porphyrins on gold nanoparticles.