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SUBMITTER: Culver KS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5172589 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The journal of physical chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and interfaces 20160913 38
Gold nanostars functionalized with Gd(III) have shown significant promise as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) because of their anisotropic, branched shape. However, the size and shape polydispersity of as-synthesized gold nanostars have precluded efforts to develop a rigorous relationship between the gold nanostar structure (e.g., number of branches) and relaxivity of surface-bound Gd(III). This paper describes the use of a centrifugal separation method that can produce struc ...[more]