Gold nanocages covered by smart polymers for controlled release with near-infrared light

Nature Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 935-939

  Yavuz, Mustafa S ^a   Cheng, Yiyun ^a   Chen, Jingyi ^a   Cobley, Claire M ^a   Zhang, Qiang ^a   Rycenga, Matthew ^a   Xie, Jingwei ^a   Kim, Chulhong ^a   Song, Kwang H ^a   Schwartz, Andrea G ^a   Wang, Lihong V ^a   Xia, Younan ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; INFRARED LASERS; PHOTOLYSIS; POLYMERS; TISSUE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS; BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; NEAR INFRARED LIGHT; NEAR INFRARED REGION; NEAR-INFRARED LASERS; PHOTOTHERMAL EFFECTS; PRECURSOR COMPOUNDS; STRONG ABSORPTIONS;

INFRARED DEVICES;

GOLD; NANOTUBE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PROPERTY;

GOLD; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; POLYMERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 70549106853     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2564     Document Type: Article

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