Plasmonic-magnetic bifunctional nanotubes for biological applications
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Date
2017-05-02
Authors
Xiaobin Xu
Donglei Fan
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United States Patent and Trademark Office
Abstract
The present invention includes nanotubes or rods, methods and arrays using plasmonic-magnetic bifunctional nanotubes or rods comprising: one or more silica nanotubes or rods; one or more nanomagnets embedded in a portion of the silica nanotubes or rods; and plasmonic metal nanoparticles uniformly coating in or on at least a portion of the surface of the nanomagnets and the silica nanotubes surface-coated.