Branched Au Nanoshells Out-of-equilibrium self-assembly of metal nanoparticles achieving 3D structures with controlled morphology is still rare. In article number 2206712, Claudia Pigliacelli, Pierangelo Metrangolo, and co-workers adopt a peptide-gold superstructure as template to control the out-of-equilibrium nanoparticles, obtaining transient branched Au-nanoshell stabilized by surfactant. T...

0017-9310/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2011.07.045 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +7 499 250 3264; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (L.A. Dombrov A combined thermal model for transient temperature field in a tumor and ambient tissue during laser heating of embedded gold nanoparticles is developed. The approach considered is based on coupling of the...

Citrate-capped gold nanoparticles with different colours and diameters were prepared by the reduction of HAuCl4 using sodium citrate. With increasing the size of gold particles, the plasmon absorption peaks were shifted to longer wavelength and the intensity of resonance light scattering was enhanced. The resonance light scattering of gold nanoparticles in the range of 500–600nmwas quenched by ...

Advances in chemistry and physics are providing an expanding array of nanostructured materials with unique and powerful optical properties. These nanomaterials provide a new set of tools that are available to biomedical engineers, biologists, and medical scientists who seek new tools as biosensors and probes of biological fluids, cells, and tissue chemistry and function. Nanomaterials are also ...

We demonstrate modulation of nitric oxide release in solution and in human prostate cancer cells from a thiol functionalized cupferron (TCF) absorbed on hollow gold nanoshells (HGNs) using near-infrared (NIR) light. NO release from the TCF-HGN conjugates occurs through localized surface heating due to NIR excitation of the surface plasmon. Specific HGN targeting is achieved through cell surface...

Surfaced enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) nanotags operating with 1280 nm excitation were constructed from reporter molecules selected from a library of 14 chalcogenopyrylium dyes containing phenyl, 2-thienyl, and 2-selenophenyl substituents and a surface of hollow gold nanoshells (HGNs). These 1280 SERS nanotags are unique as they have multiple chalcogen atoms available which allow them to ads...

The temporal and spatial control over the delivery of materials such as siRNA into cells remains a significant technical challenge. We demonstrate the pulsed near-infrared (NIR) laser-dependent release of siRNA from coated 40 nm gold nanoshells. Tat-lipid coating mediates the cellular uptake of the nanomaterial at picomolar concentration, while spatiotemporal silencing of a reporter gene (green...

The antibacterial activity of ciprofloxacin-encapsulated silica nanoshells synthesized from gold@silica core-shell nanoparticles has been investigated. The minimum inhibitory concentration of the material was found using the agar dilution method, and it showed better antibacterial activity compared to free ciprofloxacin in the case of Escherichia coli DH5, whereas the same activity was found fo...