Exploiting gold nanoparticles for diagnosis and cancer treatments

• Published in: Nanotechnology Vol. 32; no. 19; p. 192001
• Main Authors: D’Acunto, Mario, Cioni, Patrizia, Gabellieri, Edi, Presciuttini, Gianluca
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 07.05.2021
• Subjects: Animals; Cell Line, Tumor; Cells, Cultured; Gold; Humans; Metal Nanoparticles; Mice; Neoplasms - diagnosis; Neoplasms - therapy; Particle Size; Phototherapy; Surface Plasmon Resonance; Theranostic Nanomedicine

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) represent a relatively simple nanosystem to be synthesised and functionalized. AuNPs offer numerous advantages over different nanomaterials, primarily due to highly optimized protocols for their production with sizes in the range 1–150 nm and shapes, spherical, nanorods (A...