Nanoparticles are defined as solid colloidal particles ranging in size from 10 to 1000 nm.
Nanoparticles offer many benefits to larger particles such as increased surface-to-volume …

Nowadays, photothermal therapy (PTT) utilizing photothermal conversion agents (PTAs) to
generate sufficient heat under near-infrared (NIR) light irradiation for tumor ablation has …

The development of diagnostic and therapeutic nanoparticles for biomedical applications is
of broad current interest in science, engineering, and medicine. The fundamental basis is …

Raman spectroscopy is an increasingly popular technique in many areas, including biology
and medicine. It is based on Raman scattering, a phenomenon in which incident photons …

Advances in bioinformatics, genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics have facilitated the
development of novel anticancer agents that have decreased side effects and increased …

Abstract Although Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) is widely applied for
ultrasensitive diagnostics and imaging, its potential is largely limited by the difficult …

Photothermal therapy (PTT) has recently attracted considerable attention owing to its
controllable treatment process, high tumour eradication efficiency and minimal side effects …

Raman spectroscopy is an emerging technique in bioanalysis and imaging of biomaterials
owing to its unique capability of generating spectroscopic fingerprints. Imaging cells and …

The interest in using the polymer-coated gold nanoparticles (P-AuNPs) for various
biomedical applications, including the delivery of chemotherapeutic in cancer has been …

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are attractive photothermal agents for cancer therapy because
they show efficient local heating upon excitation of surface plasmon oscillations. The strong …