Gold-silica quantum rattles for multimodal imaging and therapy

Mathew Hembury, Ciro Chiappini, Sergio Bertazzo, Tammy Kalber, Glenna L Drisko, Olumide Ogunlade, Simon Walker-Samuel, Katla Sai Krishna, Coline Jumeaux, Paul Beard, Challa S S R Kumar, Alexandra E Porter, Mark Lythgoe, Cedric Boissiere, Clement Sanchez, Molly M Stevens

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Abstract

Therapeutic and diagnostic nanoparticles combine multiple functionalities to improve efficacy of treatment but often require assembling complex systems at the expense of overall performance. Here we present a simple strategy to synthesize a hybrid, rattle-like, gold–silica nanoparticle that very efficiently combines therapy and imaging in an animal model. The nanoparticle design is uniquely centered on enabling the use of gold quantum dots (
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1959-1964
JournalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Volume7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Feb 2015

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