Properties and applications of colloidal nonspherical noble metal nanoparticles

TK Sau, AL Rogach, F Jäckel, TA Klar… - Advanced …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoparticles of noble metals belong to the most extensively studied colloidal systems in
the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Due to continuing progress in the synthesis of …

Nonspherical noble metal nanoparticles: colloid‐chemical synthesis and morphology control

TK Sau, AL Rogach - Advanced Materials, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Metal nanoparticles have been the subject of widespread research over the past two
decades. In recent years, noble metals have been the focus of numerous studies involving …

Optical properties and biomedical applications of plasmonic nanoparticles

NG Khlebtsov, LA Dykman - Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and …, 2010 - Elsevier
Nanoparticle plasmonics is a rapidly emerging research field that deals with the fabrication
and optical characterization of noble metal nanoparticles of various size, shape, structure …

PEG-modified gold nanorods with a stealth character for in vivo applications

T Niidome, M Yamagata, Y Okamoto, Y Akiyama… - Journal of Controlled …, 2006 - Elsevier
Gold nanorods prepared in hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) solution are
expected to provide novel materials for photothermal therapy and photo-controlled drug …

Cancer cells assemble and align gold nanorods conjugated to antibodies to produce highly enhanced, sharp, and polarized surface Raman spectra: a potential …

X Huang, IH El-Sayed, W Qian, MA El-Sayed - Nano letters, 2007 - ACS Publications
Human oral cancer cells are found to assemble and align gold nanorods conjugated to anti-
epidermal growth factor receptor (anti-EGFR) antibodies. Immnoconjugated gold nanorods …

Optical amplification of photothermal therapy with gold nanoparticles and nanoclusters

B Khlebtsov, V Zharov, A Melnikov, V Tuchin… - …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Determination of size and concentration of gold nanoparticles from extinction spectra

NG Khlebtsov - Analytical chemistry, 2008 - ACS Publications
Extinction spectra of colloidal gold can be used for a simple and fast determination of the
size and concentration of nanoparticles. It is generally accepted that experimental …

One-dimensional nanostructures of metals: large-scale synthesis and some potential applications

J Chen, BJ Wiley, Y Xia - Langmuir, 2007 - ACS Publications
We review recent developments in our group regarding the solution-phase synthesis of one-
dimensional nanostructures of metals. The synthetic approaches include solution− liquid …

Separation of nanoparticles in aqueous multiphase systems through centrifugation

O Akbulut, CR Mace, RV Martinez, AA Kumar, Z Nie… - Nano …, 2012 - ACS Publications
This paper demonstrates the use of aqueous multiphase systems (MuPSs) as media for rate-
zonal centrifugation to separate nanoparticles of different shapes and sizes. The properties …

In vivo, Noninvasive, Label-Free Detection and Eradication of Circulating Metastatic Melanoma Cells Using Two-Color Photoacoustic Flow Cytometry with a Diode …

EI Galanzha, EV Shashkov, PM Spring, JY Suen… - Cancer research, 2009 - AACR
The circulating tumor cell (CTC) count has been shown as a prognostic marker for
metastasis development. However, its clinical utility for metastasis prevention remains …