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 …

Hypoxia development in tumor is closely associated with its increased aggressiveness and
strong resistance to therapy, leading to the poor prognosis in several cancer types …

Gold nanoparticles are especially suited to thermal destruction of cancer due to their ease of
surface functionalization and photothermal heating ability. This chapter reviews the progress …

Nanoparticle mediated hyperthermia has been explored as a method to increase cancer
treatment efficacy by heating tumours inside-out. With that purpose, nanoparticles have …

Imaging has become an indispensable tool in the research and clinical management of
cardiovascular disease (CVD). An array of imaging technologies is considered for CVD …

Cancer has nowadays become one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Conventional
anticancer approaches are associated with different limitations. Therefore, innovative …

As a special cross‐disciplinary research frontier, nanoultrasonic biomedicine refers to the
design and synthesis of nanomaterials to solve some critical issues of ultrasound (US) …

One of the challenges in designing a successful drug-delivery vehicle is the control over
drug release. Toward this, a number of multifunctional nanoparticles with multiple triggers …

Cancer is an important factor affecting the quality of human life as well as causing death.
Tumor ablation therapy is a minimally invasive local treatment modality with unique …

Monodispersed upconversion nanoparticles NaYF4: Er3+/Yb3+ (UCNPs) have been
synthesized via the thermolysis method. Förster or fluorescence resonance energy transfer …