Nanotechnology is considered one of the paramount forefronts in science over the last
decade. Its versatile implementations and fast-growing demand have paved the way for …

Colloidal gold has been studied for its potential application in medicine for centuries.
However, synthesis and evaluation of various gold nanoparticles have only recently been …

Driven by functionality and purity demand for applications of inorganic nanoparticle colloids
in optics, biology, and energy, their surface chemistry has become a topic of intensive …

Capable of generating plasmonic and other effects, gold nanostructures can offer a variety of
diagnostic and therapy functionalities for biomedical applications, but conventional …

Gold and silver nanoparticles (NPs) are widely used in the biomedical research both in the
therapeutic and the sensing/diagnostics fronts. Both metals share some common optical …

Laser ablation in liquid (LAL) has received considerable attention over the last decade, and
is gradually becoming an irreplaceable technique to synthesize nanocrystals and fabricate …

Laser ablation of solid targets in the liquid medium can be realized to fabricate
nanostructures with various compositions (metals, alloys, oxides, carbides, hydroxides, etc.) …

It is of great importance in drug delivery to fabricate multifunctional nanocarriers with
intelligent targeting properties, for cancer diagnosis and therapy. Herein, hollow‐structured …

Laser ablation synthesis in liquid solution (LASiS) is a “green” technique that gives access to
the preparation of a library of nanomaterials. Bare noble metal spherical particles …

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