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NANOPARTICLE FUNCTIONALIZATION

Surface anchors target golden bullets

Nature Chemistry volume 11, pages 20–22 (2019)Cite this article

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Gold nanomaterials are attractive for a variety of applications, including in medicine, but need to be made stable enough to operate in biological systems. Now, gold nanorods have been stabilized for photothermal therapy by sequential surface anchoring, using a bidendate PEG-based ligand that features a thiolate moiety and an Au–NHC moiety.

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Fig. 1: Gold nanorods for phototherapy cancer treatment.

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    Guillaume Médard

  2. Physics Department E20, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany

    Anthoula C. Papageorgiou

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Médard, G., Papageorgiou, A.C. Surface anchors target golden bullets. Nature Chem 11, 20–22 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-018-0193-6

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