Synthesis and anisotropic growth of glycerol-based thermoresponsive NIR plasmonic nanogels

Polymeric thermoresponsive nanogels (NGs) have shown their potential in the field of nanomedicine. Providing structure with additional smart modalities to broaden application scope remains challenging. We hereby describe a novel and convenient strategy for NGs’ construction anisotropic gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) incorporated. AuNPs act as both, crosslinking points, light heat transducers. In our strategy, we incorporate small plasmonic that are further anisotropically grown conferring nanogel NIR responsive capabilities.