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Self-assembly and wetting properties of gold nanorod–CTAB molecules on HOPG

  • Imtiaz Ahmad,
  • Floor Derkink,
  • Tim Boulogne,
  • Pantelis Bampoulis,
  • Harold J. W. Zandvliet,
  • Hidayat Ullah Khan,
  • Rahim Jan and
  • E. Stefan Kooij

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 696–705, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.69

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  • surface. The self-assembled layers of CTAB molecules on the HOPG terraces prior to nanorod deposition were shown to change the wettability of the surface, and as a result, gold nanorod deposition takes place on nonwetting HOPG terraces. Keywords: CTAB; gold nanorods; micelles; self-assembly; wettability
  • gold nanorods align with the step edges whereas side-by-side close packed arrays oriented in all possible directions were observed at the terraces on HOPG [51]. In their work, however, the notable role of CTAB on a HOPG surface is not highlighted. It has been reported [43][45] that on nonpolar surfaces
  • assembled nanorods can disturb the desired properties between the associated gold nanorods and the HOPG surface. Furthermore, the study and understanding of various assembled morphologies of surfactant molecules is relevant in many other areas [13][14][32]. Results and Discussion In drying experiments on
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Published 13 Mar 2019

Surface plasmon resonance enhancement of photoluminescence intensity and bioimaging application of gold nanorod@CdSe/ZnS quantum dots

  • Siyi Hu,
  • Yu Ren,
  • Yue Wang,
  • Jinhua Li,
  • Junle Qu,
  • Liwei Liu,
  • Hanbin Ma and
  • Yuguo Tang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 22–31, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.3

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  • nanoparticle comprised of CdSe/ZnS QDs and gold nanorods (GNRs) where the GNRs were applied to enhance the photoluminescence (PL) of the CdSe/ZnS QDs. In particular, we have obtained the scattering PL spectrum of a single CdSe/ZnS QD and GNR@CdSe/ZnS nanoparticle and comparison results show that the CdSe/ZnS
  • as an optical process for MCF-7 breast cancer cells. Keywords: bioimaging; gold nanorods; photoluminescence enhancement; quantum dots; Introduction In the past decades, quantum dots (QDs) have proven to be increasingly useful for their unique features [1][2][3][4][5]. The light emission from QDs
  • metal materials play a role in the enhancement of fluorescence in QDs, especially gold nanorods (GNRs) and Cu or Ca+ ion binding of QDs [16][17][18][19]. GNRs possess two plasmonic resonance bands – a longitudinal band and a transverse band. These bands correspond to the electron oscillations along the
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Published 03 Jan 2019

The nanoscaled metal-organic framework ICR-2 as a carrier of porphyrins for photodynamic therapy

  • Jan Hynek,
  • Sebastian Jurík,
  • Martina Koncošová,
  • Jaroslav Zelenka,
  • Ivana Křížová,
  • Tomáš Ruml,
  • Kaplan Kirakci,
  • Ivo Jakubec,
  • František Kovanda,
  • Kamil Lang and
  • Jan Demel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2960–2967, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.275

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  • light [23]. Alternatively, the antitumor activity of porphyrinic PCN-224 was increased by combining photodynamic and photothermal effects with chemotherapy; in this case the MOF was deposited onto gold nanorods and impregnated with a chemotherapeutic agent [24]. Strong phototoxic effects were reported
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Published 30 Nov 2018

Controlling surface morphology and sensitivity of granular and porous silver films for surface-enhanced Raman scattering, SERS

  • Sherif Okeil and
  • Jörg J. Schneider

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2813–2831, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.263

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  • ][55][56], and nanotransfer printing, which was used to build stacks of gold nanorods or nanowires [4]. The production of nanoporous metal films or particles through a dealloying process also emerged as an effective tool for the facile formation of a large number of SERS-active hot spots [57][58][59
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Published 07 Nov 2018

Silencing the second harmonic generation from plasmonic nanodimers: A comprehensive discussion

  • Jérémy Butet,
  • Gabriel D. Bernasconi and
  • Olivier J. F. Martin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2674–2683, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.250

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  • the SH surface currents [26][27]. Results and Discussion Gold dimers made of cylindrical nanorods We first consider the case of dimers made of gold nanorods, see Figure 1a. The diameter of the nanorods is 40 nm and their length is 85 nm. The smallest considered gap between the nanorods is 5 nm. Such
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Published 15 Oct 2018

Optical near-field mapping of plasmonic nanostructures prepared by nanosphere lithography

  • Gitanjali Kolhatkar,
  • Alexandre Merlen,
  • Jiawei Zhang,
  • Chahinez Dab,
  • Gregory Q. Wallace,
  • François Lagugné-Labarthet and
  • Andreas Ruediger

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1536–1543, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.144

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  • induced surface deformation at the hot spots upon laser illumination. The localization of the hot spots is then indirectly revealed in the subsequent AFM scanning of the surface [26]. Similarly, Murazawa et al. [30] spin-coated a pattern of gold nanorods with a photoresist before irradiating the sample
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Published 23 May 2018

Mechanistic insights into plasmonic photocatalysts in utilizing visible light

  • Kah Hon Leong,
  • Azrina Abd Aziz,
  • Lan Ching Sim,
  • Pichiah Saravanan,
  • Min Jang and
  • Detlef Bahnemann

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 628–648, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.59

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  • , in addition to gold nanorods (NRs) as plasmonic nanoantennas for an effective far red-to-NIR photocatalytic conversion. The electron–hole pairs were formed in some parts of BVO when BiVO4 encountered intense SPR-induced electric fields localized at Au NRs, and hence the entire photocatalytic system
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Published 19 Feb 2018

Facile phase transfer of gold nanorods and nanospheres stabilized with block copolymers

  • Yaroslav I. Derikov,
  • Georgiy A. Shandryuk,
  • Raisa V. Talroze,
  • Alexander A. Ezhov and
  • Yaroslav V. Kudryavtsev

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 616–627, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.58

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Published 16 Feb 2018

The role of ligands in coinage-metal nanoparticles for electronics

  • Ioannis Kanelidis and
  • Tobias Kraus

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2625–2639, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.263

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  • formation of gold nanorods with controllable aspect ratios. In the presence of CTAB alone, rods with a broad size distribution formed (see above [65]) in a mixture with other shapes. An improved protocol with a binary surfactant mixture of CTAB and sodium oleate led to gold nanorods with a narrower size
  • plates (600 nm in length and 30 nm in thickness) or spheres and rods (5 μm in length and 100 nm in diameter) led to layers with conductivities of 14706 and 31250 S/cm already at 62 and 54% metal mass fraction, respectively [74]. Similarly, gold nanorods in composites with PEDOT:PSS yielded films that had
  • (125 S/cm) [142]. Other researchers employed ligand exchange to attach PEDOT:PSS on the surface of gold nanorods that have lower percolation thresholds than spheres of equivalent volume. The original surface ligand used in nanorod synthesis (CTAB) forms insulating barriers in films. A thin PEDOT:PSS
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Published 07 Dec 2017

Selective detection of Mg2+ ions via enhanced fluorescence emission using Au–DNA nanocomposites

  • Tanushree Basu,
  • Khyati Rana,
  • Niranjan Das and
  • Bonamali Pal

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 762–771, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.79

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  • clustering of gold nanorods around the DNA. As shown in Figure 5, the height of the sample from the surface was estimated to be around 20.3 nm. The brighter areas on the image had a maximum height of 20.3 nm. Figure 5d shows the amplitude of DNA–AuNR to be 38.2 mV. Figure 6 shows the 3D visualization of the
  • material which can be modified to different sizes by varying the reflux time from 2–4 h. As-prepared AuNSs were washed three times with water to remove excess CTAB, and finally dispersed in 3 mL deionized water. Gold nanorods (AuNRs) were synthesized by the addition of 220 µL of the above prepared seed
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Comparison of four methods for the biofunctionalization of gold nanorods by the introduction of sulfhydryl groups to antibodies

  • Xuefeng Wang,
  • Zhong Mei,
  • Yanyan Wang and
  • Liang Tang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 372–380, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.39

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  • sulfhydryl groups to biomolecules to functionalize gold nanorods (GNRs) is an attractive method that involves the creation of a strong Au–S bond. Previously, we developed a facile method to functionalize GNR surfaces by thiolating antibodies using Traut’s reagent. In the current study, we evaluated several
  • GNR biofunctionalization and can be easily extended to other sensing applications based on other gold nanostructures or new biomolecules. Keywords: biofunctionalization; biosensing; four methods; gold nanorod; introduction of sulfhydryl groups; Introduction Gold nanorods (GNRs) are widely used in
  • five-fold enhancement in spectral sensitivity to the refractive index change due to target binding compared with electropolymeric coating to functionalize GNRs [17]. In our previous work a high-throughput biochip for multi-sample detection with multiplexed gold nanorods functionalized by Traut’s
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Published 06 Feb 2017

Tunable longitudinal modes in extended silver nanoparticle assemblies

  • Serene S. Bayram,
  • Klas Lindfors and
  • Amy Szuchmacher Blum

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1219–1228, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.113

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  • solvent intervention in the mode of self-assembly of nanostructures was presented by Fava and co-workers. Side-to-side (via the CTAB-capped (100) facet) assembly of gold nanorods was favoured at a high content of the solvent tetrahydrofuran (THF), where THF is known to poorly solubilize CTAB. In contrast
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Published 26 Aug 2016

A terahertz-vibration to terahertz-radiation converter based on gold nanoobjects: a feasibility study

  • Kamil Moldosanov and
  • Andrei Postnikov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 983–989, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.90

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  • ). Presumably, it is technologically simpler to fabricate the GNBs than to fabricate the GNRs. A number of strategies exists to produce gold nanorods and nanowires of ca. 3 nm diameter [13][14][15], which could be used as the GNBs. These strategies, possibly, could be tailored for making the GNBs on the
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The role of morphology and coupling of gold nanoparticles in optical breakdown during picosecond pulse exposures

  • Yevgeniy R. Davletshin and
  • J. Carl Kumaradas

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 869–880, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.79

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  • element method. The thresholds of optical breakdown for off- and on-resonance irradiated gold nanosphere monomers were compared against nanosphere dimers, trimers, and gold nanorods with the same overall size and aspect ratio. The optical breakdown thresholds had a stronger dependence on the optical near
  • dimers and trimers are irradiated at their on-resonance wavelengths. In Figure 6d, gold nanorods of the same radius but with different aspect ratios (dimer vs trimer), showed similar laser fluences (see Figure 5e) that are required to achieve the critical plasma density. For example, r5d@660 (nanorod
  • the nanosphere or nanorod in nanometers. The gold nanorods were modeled having an overall size of the corresponding nanosphere assembly with matching aspect ratios. For nanosphere assemblies the inter-particle distance, edge to edge, was kept at a constant value of 4 nm. The nanoparticle volume, Vnp
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Published 16 Jun 2016

Direct formation of gold nanorods on surfaces using polymer-immobilised gold seeds

  • Majid K. Abyaneh,
  • Pietro Parisse and
  • Loredana Casalis

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 809–816, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.72

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  • , we present the formation of gold nanorods (GNRs) on novel gold–poly(methyl methacrylate) (Au–PMMA) nanocomposite substrates with unprecedented growth control through the polymer molecular weight (Mw) and gold-salt-to-polymer weight ratio. For the first time, GNRs have been produced by seed-mediated
  • techniques such as AFM and SEM have been used to support concept of the proposed growth method. Keywords: atomic force microscopy (AFM); direct surface growth; gold nanorods; nanocomposites; poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA); Introduction Gold nanorods (GNRs) are among the most interesting noble metal one
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Comparative evaluation of the impact on endothelial cells induced by different nanoparticle structures and functionalization

  • Lisa Landgraf,
  • Ines Müller,
  • Peter Ernst,
  • Miriam Schäfer,
  • Christina Rosman,
  • Isabel Schick,
  • Oskar Köhler,
  • Hartmut Oehring,
  • Vladimir V. Breus,
  • Thomas Basché,
  • Carsten Sönnichsen,
  • Wolfgang Tremel and
  • Ingrid Hilger

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 300–312, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.28

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  • [7] are suggested. Gold nanorods were shown to have better optical imaging properties compared to spherical gold nanoparticles [8][9][10]. Importantly, the cytotoxicity of gold nanoparticles depends on the surface coating. Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), an important material during synthesis
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Published 27 Jan 2015

Mechanical properties of MDCK II cells exposed to gold nanorods

  • Anna Pietuch,
  • Bastian Rouven Brückner,
  • David Schneider,
  • Marco Tarantola,
  • Christina Rosman,
  • Carsten Sönnichsen and
  • Andreas Janshoff

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 223–231, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.21

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  • the cellular response to external stimuli. Results: Mechanical properties of confluent MDCK II cells exposed to gold nanorods as a function of surface functionalization and concentration have been explored by atomic force microscopy and quartz crystal microbalance measurements in combination with
  • fluorescence and dark-field microscopy. Conclusion: We found that cells exposed to CTAB coated gold nanorods display a concentration-dependent stiffening that cannot be explained by the presence of CTAB alone. The stiffening results presumably from endocytosis of particles removing excess membrane area from
  • CTAB coated rods suggesting an increase in acoustic load corresponding to a larger stiffness (storage modulus). Keywords: atomic force microscopy; CTAB; gold nanorods; membrane tension; MDCK II cells; QCM; Introduction The interest in gold nanoparticles (NP) for biomedical applications in the field
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Published 20 Jan 2015

Mammalian cell growth on gold nanoparticle-decorated substrates is influenced by the nanoparticle coating

  • Christina Rosman,
  • Sebastien Pierrat,
  • Marco Tarantola,
  • David Schneider,
  • Eva Sunnick,
  • Andreas Janshoff and
  • Carsten Sönnichsen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2479–2488, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.257

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  • Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 9b, 50931 Cologne, Germany 10.3762/bjnano.5.257 Abstract In this work, we study epithelial cell growth on substrates decorated with gold nanorods that are functionalized either with a positively charged cytotoxic surfactant or with a
  • enhanced compared to apical exposure [17]. In this study, epithelial cells grown on substrates decorated with gold nanorods exhibiting different surface coatings are compared with cells growing on bare substrates in order to assess the impact of the coating agents on basolateral nanoparticle application
  • apical application of the same functionalized nanoparticles are presented elsewhere [18][19][20]. Results System We investigate the growth of mammalian epithelial kidney (MDCK II) cells seeded on glass substrates decorated with gold nanorods (38 × 17 nm, Supporting Information of [20]) and compare the
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Published 24 Dec 2014

Liquid-phase exfoliated graphene: functionalization, characterization, and applications

  • Mildred Quintana,
  • Jesús Iván Tapia and
  • Maurizio Prato

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2328–2338, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.242

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  • cycloaddition, performed on graphene by employing an aldehyde and an α-amino acid as precursors, attacks both graphene faces and edges. This reactivity was observed by introducing protonated terminal amino groups that selectively bind gold nanorods allowing the recognition of the reactive sites by low
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Published 04 Dec 2014

Localized surface plasmon resonances in nanostructures to enhance nonlinear vibrational spectroscopies: towards an astonishing molecular sensitivity

  • Dan Lis and
  • Francesca Cecchet

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2275–2292, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.237

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  • and compositions, which altogether define the light absorbance, and so the LSPR spectral peak. As shown in Figure 4, depending on those parameters, the resonance frequency can be tuned over all the visible and near-infrared ranges [9][10][11][12][15]. For example, gold nanorods (Figure 4a) present two
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Published 28 Nov 2014

Hybrid spin-crossover nanostructures

  • Carlos M. Quintero,
  • Gautier Félix,
  • Iurii Suleimanov,
  • José Sánchez Costa,
  • Gábor Molnár,
  • Lionel Salmon,
  • William Nicolazzi and
  • Azzedine Bousseksou

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2230–2239, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.232

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  • beam lithography (EBL) and lift off strategies, we developed localized surface plasmon (LSP) substrates consisting of a series of arrays of gold nanorods with different aspect ratios (Figure 7a) [34]. After this, the photonic device was finalized with a 60 nm thin film of the SCO complex, Fe(hptrz)3
  • (OTs)2, spin-coated onto the top. For a given particle size, aspect ratio and distance between particles, each array of gold nanorods have a characteristic LSP resonance (LSPR) wavelength that will also depend on the refractive index value of the surrounding media (Figure 7b). As a result, the LSPR of
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Published 25 Nov 2014

In vitro interaction of colloidal nanoparticles with mammalian cells: What have we learned thus far?

  • Moritz Nazarenus,
  • Qian Zhang,
  • Mahmoud G. Soliman,
  • Pablo del Pino,
  • Beatriz Pelaz,
  • Susana Carregal-Romero,
  • Joanna Rejman,
  • Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser,
  • Martin J. D. Clift,
  • Reinhard Zellner,
  • G. Ulrich Nienhaus,
  • James B. Delehanty,
  • Igor L. Medintz and
  • Wolfgang J. Parak

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1477–1490, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.161

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  • effects can result from the NPs themselves (e.g., by their catalytic surface or by their organic coating, such as in the case of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), a surfactant commonly used to synthesize gold nanorods) or by ions released from the NPs [154][155]. Ion release from certain materials
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Published 09 Sep 2014

Nanodiamond-DGEA peptide conjugates for enhanced delivery of doxorubicin to prostate cancer

  • Amanee D Salaam,
  • Patrick Hwang,
  • Roberus McIntosh,
  • Hadiyah N Green,
  • Ho-Wook Jun and
  • Derrick Dean

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 937–945, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.107

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  • tumor types [6][7][8][9]. Currently, there are several clinically approved nanoparticle-based cancer drugs using liposomes, nanoparticle albumin-bound (nab) technology, dendrimers, polymeric, carbon, and metal nanoparticles [6][8]. Gold nanorods, iron magnetic nanoparticles, polymer nanospheres, lipids
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Published 01 Jul 2014

Nanostructure sensitization of transition metal oxides for visible-light photocatalysis

  • Hongjun Chen and
  • Lianzhou Wang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 696–710, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.82

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  • the visible range to infrared wavelength by tuning the aspect ratio of different gold nanorods. Over the past years, a new method has emerged, which uses the strong plasmon resonance of plasmonic metal nanostructures for improving the efficiency of the photocatalytic process. Similar to the organic
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Published 23 May 2014

In vitro toxicity and bioimaging studies of gold nanorods formulations coated with biofunctional thiol-PEG molecules and Pluronic block copolymers

  • Tianxun Gong,
  • Douglas Goh,
  • Malini Olivo and
  • Ken-Tye Yong

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 546–553, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.64

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  • Singapore School of Physics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland 10.3762/bjnano.5.64 Abstract In this work, we investigated the cytotoxicity, colloidal stability and optical property of gold nanorods before and after functionalizing them with thiolated PEG and Pluronic triblock copolymer (PEO
  • –PPO–PEO) molecules. The morphology of functionalized gold nanorods was characterized by UV–visible absorption spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and dynamic light scattering. Solution phase synthesis of gold nanorods has remained the method of choice for obtaining varying shapes and
  • aspect ratios of rod nanoparticles. This method typically involves the use of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) surfactants as directing agents to grow gold nanorods in the solution phase. The as-synthesized gold nanorods surfaces are terminated with CTAB molecules and this formulation gives rise to
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