Plasmonic giant quantum dots: hybrid nanostructures for truly simultaneous optical imaging, photothermal effect and thermometry† †Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Further information on Au shelling chemistry and imaging of the Au shell by electron microscopy. Figures and Movie. See DOI: 10.1039/c5sc00020c

Harnessing nonlinear rubber swelling for bulk synthesis of anisotropic hybrid nanoparticles† †Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: The TEM images of control Au–PDVB hybrid nanoparticles formed without the presence of PVP and Au–PS hybrid nanoparticles. See DOI: 10.1039/c4tc01660b Click here for additional data file.

Asymmetric hybrid nanoparticles are at the forefront of colloidal chemistry as building blocks for novel structures and applications, as well as for exploring fundamental ways of breaking symmetry in physical systems. Current methods of synthesis have significant limitations in terms of control over synthesis, particle size ranges and polydispersity. We report a facile and scalable synthesis ba...

Janus gold nanoparticles obtained via spontaneous binary polymer shell segregation† †Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Experimental procedures, results of SAXS, UV-vis and DLS for NPs of different core sizes, polymer coatings and in different solvents; details of emulsification using Janus Au NPs; TEM images after silica coating of Janus Au NPs; 3D images of different stained Au NPs. See DOI: 10.1039/c5cc10454h Click here for additional data file.

Janus gold nanoparticles are of high interest because they allow directed self-assembly and display plasmonic properties. We succeeded in coating gold nanoparticles with two different polymers that form a Janus shell. The spontaneous segregation of two immiscible polymers at the surface of the nanoparticles was verified by NOESY NMR and most importantly by electron microscopy analysis in two an...

Iron-gold (Fe2O3@Au) core-shell nano-theranostic for magnetically targeted photothermal therapy under magnetic resonance imaging guidance

Introduction: Photothermal therapy (PTT) is a nanotechnology-assisted cancer hyperthermia approach in which the interaction between laser light and plasmonic nanoparticles generates a localized heating for thermoablation of the tumor. Recent efforts in the area of PTT follow two important aims: (i) exploitation of targeting strategies for preferential accumulation of plasmonic ...

Polydopamine coated manganese oxide nanoparticles with ultrahigh relaxivity as nanotheranostic agents for magnetic resonance imaging guided synergetic chemo-/photothermal therapy† †Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Experimental procedures, supplementary figures and table of relaxivity of the present work and reported Mn-based nanoparticles. See DOI: 10.1039/c6sc01320a Click here for additional data file.

State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Reso Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sc E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthes Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 1300 Department of Radiology, The Second H 130022, P. R. China † Electronic supplementary information (E supplementary gures and table of relax Mn-based nanoparticles. See DOI: 10.1039 Cite th...

Photothermal-enhanced catalysis in core–shell plasmonic hierarchical Cu7S4 microsphere@zeolitic imidazole framework-8† †Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Experimental details, calculation of photothermal transduction efficiency, additional analytical data, spectra, and images. See DOI: 10.1039/c6sc03239g Click here for additional data file.