Selecting high performance plasmonic nanoheaters for biomedical applications

This presentation will reveal the rules on selecting efficient plasmonic nanoheaters for biomedical proposes. Here, a size dependence of plasmonic nanoparticle optical heating will be disclosed. The continuous laser heating of gold nanoparticles is evaluated exploring theoretical and experimental approach. This study demonstrates the use of optimized plasmonic gold nanparticles as photothermal agent for photoacoustic imaging technic, for the inactivation of yeast and for in-vivo hyperthermia treatment of the Sarcoma-180. Our results pave the way for the rational use of plasmonic nanoheaters in photothermal applications.