Nanoscale drug delivery systems: from medicine to agriculture

P Vega-Vásquez, NS Mosier… - Frontiers in Bioengineering …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The main challenges in drug delivery systems are to protect, transport and release
biologically active compounds at the right time in a safe and reproducible manner, usually at …

Smart nanostructures for cargo delivery: uncaging and activating by light

M Karimi, P Sahandi Zangabad… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Nanotechnology has begun to play a remarkable role in various fields of science and
technology. In biomedical applications, nanoparticles have opened new horizons, especially …

Nanooncology: the future of cancer diagnosis and therapy

AS Thakor, SS Gambhir - CA: a cancer journal for clinicians, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, there has been an unprecedented expansion in the field of nanomedicine
with the development of new nanoparticles for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer …

Nano-therapeutics: A revolution in infection control in post antibiotic era

S Zaidi, L Misba, AU Khan - Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and …, 2017 - Elsevier
With the arrival of antibiotics 70 years ago, meant a paradigm shift in overcoming infectious
diseases. For decades, drugs have been used to treat different infections. However, with …

Potential applications and human biosafety of nanomaterials used in nanomedicine

H Su, Y Wang, Y Gu, L Bowman… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
With the rapid development of nanotechnology, potential applications of nanomaterials in
medicine have been widely researched in recent years. Nanomaterials themselves can be …

Gold nanostars for efficient in vitro and in vivo real-time SERS detection and drug delivery via plasmonic-tunable Raman/FTIR imaging

F Tian, J Conde, C Bao, Y Chen, J Curtin, D Cui - Biomaterials, 2016 - Elsevier
The application of plasmonic-enhanced Raman imaging of cancer cells and drug delivery is
gaining momentum. Here, we propose a new theranostic strategy based on an efficient …

Medical applications of surface-enhanced Raman scattering

W Xie, S Schlücker - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
This perspective article provides an overview of selected medical applications of surface-
enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), highlighting recent developments and trends. The use …

Structural‐engineering rationales of gold nanoparticles for cancer theranostics

W Chen, S Zhang, Y Yu, H Zhang, Q He - Advanced Materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Personalized theranostics of cancer is increasingly desired, and can be realized by virtue of
multifunctional nanomaterials with possible high performances. Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) …

[PDF][PDF] A brief review on inorganic nanoparticles

P Pandey, M Dahiya - J Crit Rev, 2016 - researchgate.net
For the past few years, there has been significant research in the area of nanotechnology
using nanoparticles. In the field of modern material science, inorganic nanoparticles are …

Introduction to photothermal nanomaterials

SY Tee, KY Win, SS Goh, CP Teng, KY Tang… - 2022 - books.rsc.org
Advances in nanotechnology have resulted in a library of functional nanomaterials with well-
defined size, shape, composition, and surface functionalities that enable the conversion of …