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SUBMITTER: Huang P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4058316 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Huang Peng P Lin Jing J Li Wanwan W Rong Pengfei P Wang Zhe Z Wang Shouju S Wang Xiaoping X Sun Xiaolian X Aronova Maria M Niu Gang G Leapman Richard D RD Nie Zhihong Z Chen Xiaoyuan X
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20131206 52
The hierarchical assembly of gold nanoparticles (GNPs) allows the localized surface plasmon resonance peaks to be engineered to the near-infrared (NIR) region for enhanced photothermal therapy (PTT). Herein we report a novel theranostic platform based on biodegradable plasmonic gold nanovesicles for photoacoustic (PA) imaging and PTT. The disulfide bond at the terminus of a PEG-b-PCL block-copolymer graft enables dense packing of GNPs during the assembly process and induces ultrastrong plasmonic ...[more]