Over recent decades, one of the most important and complex problems facing our society is
the multi-drug resistance of human cancer cells and pathogens to most clinically approved …

This chapter presents the developments on soft materials driven by photothermal effect of
various photothermal agents. It discusses the combination of well‐known soft materials such …

In recent years, the application of nanomaterials to biological and biomedicine areas has
attracted intensive interest. One of the hot topics is the nanomaterial mediated …

Heat transfer between a silver nanoparticle and surrounding water has been studied using
molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The thermal conductance (Kapitza conductance) at …

Cancer remains one of the leading healthcare problems in the world, and efforts continue
not only to discover new therapies but also to find better ways to deliver medicines. The …

We use the photothermal effect of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) to provide billion-fold
enhancement of on-demand bulk-scale curing of polyurethane. We follow the course of this …

Optical and thermal activity of plasmon-active nanoparticles in transparent dielectric media
is of growing interest in thermal therapies, photovoltaics and optoelectronic components in …

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have been widely utilized as an effective substrate for triggering
molecular ionization upon photoexcitation. However, its underlying mechanism (s) remains …

Plasmonic nanoparticles (eg, gold, silver) have attracted much attention for biological
sensing and imaging as promising nanoprobes. Practical biomedical applications demand …

Infrared photothermal microscopy is an infrared (IR) imaging technique that enables non-
invasive, non-destructive, and label-free investigations at the sub-micrometer scale. It has …