Synthesis of gold nanorods and their performance in the field of cancer cell imaging and photothermal therapy

Abstract Cancer is one of the most common incident in the world, with malignant tumors having a death rate of up to 19%. A new method of treating cancer cells effectively with minimal cytotoxicity is needed. In the field of biomedicine with unique shape-dependent optical properties, gold nanorods (G...

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Main Authors: Naseer Ullah Khan, Jing Lin, Muhammad Rizwan Younas, Xukun Liu, Liming Shen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-07-01
Series:Cancer Nanotechnology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12645-021-00092-w

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