Recent advances in wet chemical synthesis and biomolecular functionalization of gold
nanoparticles have led to a dramatic expansion of their potential biomedical applications …

Inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) currently have immense potential as drug delivery vectors
due to their unique physicochemical properties such as high surface area per unit volume …

The unique properties of metal nanoparticles (NPs) resulting from their localized surface
plasmon resonance have led to the emergence and rapid development of promising …

Delivery of drugs or genetic material into cells is one of the emerging areas of
biotechnology. 1 Nanoparticle (NP)-based drug carriers are especially interesting, due to …

In this paper a new set of plasmonic nanostructures operating at the conditions of an ideal
absorption (Grigoriev et al., 2015 [1]) was proposed for novel biomedical applications. We …

There is no shortage of excitement, exuberance, hype and misinformation when it comes to
anything ''nano''. Many claim it to be the next industrial revolution, some purport that it has …

Design and synthesis of branched tetraethylene glycol (TEG) based ligands for subsequent
conjugation to gold nanoshells are reported. TEG enhances the aqueous solubility of hollow …

Silver-based nanostructures with tailored localized surface plasmon resonance are of
interest for a number of practical applications. They can conventionally be divided into three …

Hydrosols of spindle-shaped composite particles with the core of iron (III) oxyhydroxide and
silver shell are synthesized by enlarging metal seeding nanoparticles adsorbed on the …

Aggregative stable dispersions of particles with anisotropic cores of iron (III) oxyhydroxide
and gold or silver nanoshells are synthesized. They feature maximum plasmonic absorption …