The surprising in vivo instability of near-IR-absorbing hollow Au-Ag nanoshells

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3222-3231

  Goodman, Amanda M ^a   Cao, Yang ^a   Urban, Cordula ^c   Neumann, Oara ^a,b   Ayala Orozco, Ciceron ^a   Knight, Mark W ^b   Joshi, Amit ^c   Nordlander, Peter ^a,b   Halas, Naomi J ^a,b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; fragmentation; nanomedicine; near infrared; photothermal therapy; plasmon; serum

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; GOLD; INFRARED DEVICES; MEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSHELLS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PLASMONS; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TUMORS;

CANCER; FRAGMENTATION; NEAR INFRARED; PHOTOTHERMAL THERAPY; SERUM;

SILVER;

GOLD; NANOSHELL; SILVER;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG STABILITY; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER; MOUSE; NUDE MOUSE; RADIATION ABSORPTION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ABSORPTION, RADIATION; ANIMALS; DRUG STABILITY; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GOLD; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NANOSHELLS; SILVER; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84899417974     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn405663h     Document Type: Article

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