Environment-dependent generation of photoacoustic waves from plasmonic nanoparticles.
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SUBMITTER: Chen YS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3498448 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan
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Environment-dependent generation of photoacoustic waves from plasmonic nanoparticles.
Chen Yun-Sheng YS Frey Wolfgang W Aglyamov Salavat S Emelianov Stanislav S
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 20111123 1
Nanoparticle-augmented photoacoustics is an emerging technique for molecular imaging. This study investigates the fundamental process of the photoacoustic signal generation by plasmonic nanoparticles suspended in a weakly absorbing fluid. The photoacoustic signal of gold nanospheres with varying silica shell thicknesses is shown to be dominated by the heat transfer between the nanoparticles and the surrounding environment. ...[more]
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