Improving the biocompatibility and stability of gold nanorods(GNRs) as bioimaging tags through silica coating

• We report a facile method to coat GNRs by silica shell, which greatly improves GNRs' biocompatibility and chemical stability in applications without any obvious side effect on their attractive optical properties.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering (hsv//eng)

Keyword

NANOPARTICLES; SEED

Electrical engineering, electronics and photonics

Elektroteknik, elektronik och fotonik

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