Cooperative, nanoparticle-enabled thermal therapy of breast cancer.

ABSTRACT: Hollow gold nanoshells are more efficient in heat generation triggered by near infrared laser when they are loaded into porous silicon particles, which results in effective cancer-cell killing in vitro and in vivo. Collective electromagnetic coupling of nanoconfined hollow gold nanoshells leads to dramatic enhancement of thermal ablation.

SUBMITTER: Shen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3842222 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature