Team Studies Optical Properties of Plasmonic Nanovesicles
AUSTIN, Texas., Dec. 12, 2017 — An on-demand, light-triggered drug release method — vesicular assembly of small plasmonic nanoparticles, or plasmonic vesicle — could aid in treatment of disease, support efforts to study the nervous system in real-time, provide insight into how the brain works, and provide rapid clearance of small inorganic particles from the body. Wide ranges of optical properties have been reported including characteristic absorption peak in the visible or NIR ranges, or broadband absorption.