Nanotechnology has become a trending area in science and has made great advances with
the development of functional, engineered nanoparticles. Various metal nanoparticles have …

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 …

Noble metals comprise any of several metallic chemical elements that are outstandingly
resistant to corrosion and oxidation, even at elevated temperatures. This group is not strictly …

Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) with controlled geometrical, optical, and surface chemical
properties are the subject of intensive studies and applications in biology and medicine. To …

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are important components for biomedical applications. AuNPs
have been widely employed for diagnostics, and have seen increasing use in the area of …

This critical review will present the role of nanoparticles (NPs) in the directions that are vital
to the new field of nanomedicine, including imaging and drug delivery. We reflect on the …

The excitation of surface plasmons (SPs) in metallic nanoparticles (NPs) induces optical
properties hardly achievable in other optical materials, yielding a wide range of applications …

The interaction of inorganic nanoparticles and many biological fluids often withstands the
formation of a Protein Corona envelo** the nanoparticle. This Protein Corona provides the …

This critical review provides an overall survey of the basic concepts and up-to-date literature
results concerning the very promising use of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) for medicinal …

Despite the great progress in medical sciences, cancer is still a major health problem. Since
the majority of cancer treatment protocols include first-generation chemotherapeutic agents …