Calculated absorption and scattering properties of gold nanoparticles of different size, shape, and composition: applications in biological imaging and biomedicine.

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Summary

While nanorods with a higher aspect ratio along with a smaller effective radius are the best photoabsorbing nanoparticles, the highest scattering contrast for imaging applications is obtained from nanorod of high aspect ratio with a larger effective radius.

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2006-03-18
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Nanoshell, Discrete dipole approximation, Materials science, Surface plasmon resonance, Mie scattering

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