Inertial Force Driven Synthesis Of Near Infrared Plasmonic Nanosphere Composites

Download or read book Inertial Force-driven Synthesis of Near-infrared Plasmonic Nanosphere Composites written by Joseph Noel Batta-Mpouma and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near-infrared (NIR) responsive nanoparticles (NPs) like gold nanorods (GNRs) are important in biomedical fields because of their transparency for biological tissues. Although GNRs are sought after as contrast agents for theranostics in cancer studies, capping ligands like cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) for the GNR synthesis are toxic for biological tissues. The need for an alternative to toxic GNRs is of interest to alleviate the problem.