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Critical Review
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2008, 37, 1896 - 1908, DOI: 10.1039/b712170a
Biological applications of gold nanoparticles
Ralph A. Sperling, Pilar Rivera Gil, Feng Zhang, Marco Zanella and Wolfgang J. Parak
This critical review gives a short overview of the widespread use of gold nanoparticles in biology. We have identified four classes of applications in which gold nanoparticles have been used so far: labelling, delivering, heating, and sensing. For each of these applications the underlying mechanisms and concepts, the specific features of the gold nanoparticles needed for this application, as well as several examples are described (142 references).
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