Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Synthesis
Chapter 1. Surfactant-Free Gold Nanostar for Biomedical Application
Yan Shan Ang and Lin-Yue Lanry Yung (Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Chapter 2. Controlled Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles by Modified Polyol Methods for Plasmonic Applications
Nguyen Viet Long, Yong Yang, Cao Minh Thi, Zhang Lin Lin, Yanqin Cao, and Masayuki Nogami (State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China, and others)
Biological
Chapter 3. Phototherapy with Gold Nanomaterials
Eugenia Li Ling Yeo, Barbara Poinard, and James Chen Yong Kah (Nanomedicine & Nanorobotics Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Chapter 4. Gold Nanoparticles for Biomedical Imaging and their Biological Response
Omid Mashinchian, Alaaldin M Alkilany, Mohammad Javad Hajipour, and Shima Tavakol (Nanotechnology Research Center, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, and others)
Chapter 5. Is the Fruit Fly Drosophila a Useful Genetic Model to Study Gold Nanoparticle-Induced Toxicity?
Cynthia Ong, Lin-Yue Lanry Yung, Boon-Huat Bay, and Gyeong-Hun Baeg (Department of Anatomy, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, and others)
Sensing
Chapter 6. Gold Nanoparticle Based Biosensors
Zanzan Zhu (Department of Chemical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA)
Chapter 7. New Developments of Gold Nanoparticles in Plasmonic Sensing
Nguyen Viet Long, Yong Yang, Cao Minh Thi, Zhang Lin Lin, Yanqin Cao, and Masayuki Nogami (State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China, and others)
Energy
Chapter 8. Electrochemistry of Gold Nanoparticles: Electro-Oxidation, Electro-Synthesis and Electrochemical Applications
Ying Wang and Zhichuan J. Xu (School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and others)
Chapter 9. Surface Segregation Phenomenon in Gold-based Bimetallic Nanoparticles
Hanbin Liao and Zhichuan J. Xu (School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, and others)
Index
This book would serve as a good introduction to people just entering the field of biomedical nanotechnology. It is also for practitioners and experts seeking for information in other subfields of gold nanomaterials.