Friday, August 23, 2013

Surface chemistry of gold nanorods: origin of cell membrane damage and cytotoxicity




Nanoscale , 2013, 5,8384-8391

DOI: 10.1039/C3NR01626A, Paper

Liming Wang, Xiumei Jiang, Yinglu Ji, Ru Bai, Yuliang Zhao, Xiaochun Wu, Chunying Chen

Gold nanorods damage cell membrane and induce cell death mainly due to the unique bilayer structure of CTAB molecules on the rod surface, rather than their surface charges.

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