Noble metal nanoparticles due to their unique optical properties arising from their
interactions with an incident light have been intensively employed in a broad range of …

Intracellular delivery is a key step in biological research and has enabled decades of
biomedical discoveries. It is also becoming increasingly important in industrial and medical …

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 …

Thousands of different nanoparticles (NPs) involve in our daily life with various origins from
food, cosmetics, drugs, etc. It is believed that decreasing the size of materials up to …

Gene delivery as a promising and valid tool has been used for treating many serious
diseases that conventional drug therapies cannot cure. Due to the advancement of physical …

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) of different size and shape are widely used as photosensitizers
for cancer diagnostics and plasmonic photothermal (PPT)/photodynamic (PDT) therapy, as …

Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) are claimed as outstanding biomedical tools for cancer
diagnostics and photo-thermal therapy, but without enough evidence on their potentially …

There is a great interest in delivering macromolecular agents into living cells for therapeutic
purposes, such as siRNA for gene silencing. Although substantial effort has gone into …

The high mortality rates of cancer patients receiving standard treatments emphasize the
crucial need for alternative treatments. One promising strategy is to use organic …

Laser-assisted photoporation is a promising technique that is receiving increasing attention
for the delivery of membrane impermeable nanoscopic substances into living cells …