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SUBMITTER: Truby RL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3594096 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids 20130212 8
Hybrid nanostructures with unique optical and magnetic properties have attracted considerable interest as effective mediators for medical imaging and therapy. An aqueous-based, self-assembly approach to synthesizing hybrid plasmonic-superparamagnetic nanostructures is presented. The building blocks of the hybrid nanostructure include plasmonic gold nanorods (AuNRs) and superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs). The AuNRs were functionalized via carboxyl-bearing surface ligands, and the ...[more]