Optimized gold nanoshell ensembles for biomedical applications

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Sikdar, Debabrata ^a   Rukhlenko, Ivan D ^a   Cheng, Wenlong ^a,b   Premaratne, Malin ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MELBOURNE CENTRE FOR NANOFABRICATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Absorption; Biomedical applications; Hollow gold nanoshells; Lognormal distribution; Scattering

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CODES (SYMBOLS); GOLD; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED LASERS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SCATTERING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ABSORPTION AND SCATTERINGS; APPROXIMATE ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; GOLD NANO-SHELLS; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NEAR-INFRARED LASERS; OPTIMAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

NANOSHELLS;

EID: 84901279783     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-142     Document Type: Article

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