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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"silica-coated gold nanorods"”.
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Synthetic routes to silica-coated gold nanorods
The surface functionalization of gold nanorods has numerous applications for medical therapeutics, sensing, and other optoelectronic enhancement related phenomena. Surface chemistry of these particles can be altered by tuning the charge, chemical groups, and reactivity at the surface. Specifically, …
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Hard and soft coatings on gold nanoparticles at the nano-bio interface
This dissertation explores surface chemistry of gold nanoparticles, with a special focus in developing analytical methods to decipher the environment of small molecule ligands and biomolecule coronas at the molecular level. Chapter 1 introduces the physical and chemical properties of gold …
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Harnessing the optical properties of gold nanorods: fluorescence enhancement, biosensing and photothermal therapy
… synthesis, characterization, and application of gold nanomaterials, especially gold nanorods. Due to their small size, ease of functionalization, and uniquely tunable optical properties, gold nanorods have potential application in solar cells, sensing, bioimaging, drug delivery, and cancer …