Published in: Nanoscale
Authors: Akbar Samadi, Henrik Klingberg, Liselotte Jauffred, Andreas Kjær, Poul Martin Bendix, Lene B. Oddershede
Absorption of near infrared (NIR) light by metallic nanoparticles can cause extreme heating and is of interest for instance in cancer treatment since NIR light has a relatively large penetration depth into biological tissue. The research group has used laser to study effectiveness of platinum nanoparticles (PtNPs) for photothermal cancer therapy using ovarian cancer cell lines. They demonstrated that PtNPs are non-toxic themselves but upon laser irradiation kill effectively cancer cells.