Optical amplification of photothermal therapy with gold nanoparticles and nanoclusters

N. Khlebtsov, Boris; P. Zharov, Vladimir; Melnikov, Andrey; V. Tuchin, Valery; G. Khlebtsov, Nikolai

doi:10.1088/0957-4484/17/20/022

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Optical amplification of photothermal therapy with gold nanoparticles and nanoclusters

Published in Nanotechnology • Sep 28, 2006

Authors:

Boris N. Khlebtsov

Vladimir P. Zharov

Andrey Melnikov

Abstract

Recently, several groups (Anderson, Halas, Zharov, and their co-workers, 2003; El-Sayed and co-workers, 2006) demonstrated, through pioneering results, the great potential of photothermal (PT) therapy for the selective treatment of cancer cells, bacteria, viruses, and DNA targeted with gold nanosphe...

Subject

Nanoshell

Nanoclusters

Materials science

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