Rice Researchers Place 2 Million Gold Nanoparticles in a Single Cancer Cell

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Rice Researchers Place 2 Million Gold Nanoparticles in a Single Cancer Cell

Description By changing the organic molecule that coats gold nanorods, scientists at Rice University have placed 2 million nanorods inserted in a single cancer cell – shattering the prior record of 150,000 nanorods. The work could improve photothermal therapy for cancer, which uses near-IR light to heat nanorods inside cancer cells to destroy them.

"The more particles you have inside the cell the more efficient this treatment will be," said Eugene Zubarev, the lead scientist on the project. Zubarev and co-workers achieved this large concentration of nanorods inside the cell by changing the ligand attached to the gold nanorods from the commonly-used cetyl trimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) to (16-mercaptohexadecyl) trimethyl ammonium bromide (MTAB).
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