Collaborative Research: Engineering spatiotemporal temperature control of solvated noble-metal nanoparticles through the understanding of solid-water nanoscale conduction

The use of light-activated gold nanoparticles for thermal ablation of cancerous tissue and localized thermally-activated drug and gene delivery systems has been extensively investigated. However, these therapeutic approaches have stalled at the preclinical stage because the nanoparticle temperature cannot be controlled precisely, which leads to…