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Back Cover: Folding Up of Gold Nanoparticle Strings into Plasmonic Vesicles for Enhanced Photoacoustic Imaging (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 52/2015)
Author(s) -
Liu Yijing,
He Jie,
Yang Kuikun,
Yi Chenglin,
Liu Yi,
Nie Liming,
Khashab Niveen M.,
Chen Xiaoyuan,
Nie Zhihong
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201510991
Subject(s) - vesicle , photoacoustic imaging in biomedicine , nanoparticle , colloidal gold , nanotechnology , folding (dsp implementation) , drug delivery , plasmon , absorption (acoustics) , chemistry , materials science , membrane , optoelectronics , optics , physics , biochemistry , electrical engineering , engineering , composite material
The hierarchical assembly of multifunctional materials is challenging. In their Communication on page 15809 ff., Z. H. Nie, X. Y. Chen, and co‐workers report the stepwise assembly of block‐copolymer‐tethered gold nanoparticles into strings that subsequently fold into vesicles with chain‐like ordering of the nanoparticles in the membrane. The resulting vesicular assemblies can be used for photoacoustic imaging and drug delivery owing to their strong absorption in the near‐infrared region.