Noninvasive techniques, such as breath tests (urea breath test), blood pressure
measurements using a sphygmomanometer and electrocardiography, were employed by a …

Currently a popular area in nanomedicine is the implementation of plasmonic gold
nanoparticles for cancer diagnosis and photothermal therapy, attributed to the intriguing …

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 …

Noble metal nanoparticles are capable of confining resonant photons in such a manner as
to induce coherent surface plasmon oscillation of their conduction band electrons, a …

Cancer has been a significant threat to human health with more than eight million deaths
each year in the world. Therefore, there is a significant need for novel technologies to …

The use of lasers, over the past few decades, has emerged to be highly promising for cancer
therapy modalities, most commonly the photothermal therapy method, which employs light …

Nanoparticles of noble metals belong to the most extensively studied colloidal systems in
the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Due to continuing progress in the synthesis of …

Photo-thermal therapy (PTT) is a minimally-invasive therapy in which photon energy is
converted into heat to kill cancer. Gold nanoparticles absorb light strongly and convert …

Recent years have seen tremendous progress in the design and study of nanomaterials
geared towards biological and biomedical applications, most notable among these being …

Over the last three decades, a handful of photochemical mechanisms have been applied to
a large number of nanoscale assemblies that encapsulate a payload to afford spatio …