«With a broad range of physical properties — optical, electrical, optoelectronic, catalytic, magnetic, and sensing — that are dependent sensitively on their size and shape as well as their assemblies,
the produced nanorods are of both fundamental and practical interest,» Lin said.
Nanorod structures aren't new, but the technique used by Lin's lab
produces nanorods of uniform sizes — such as barium titanate and iron oxide, which have not yet been demonstrated via wet - chemistry approaches in the literature — and highly - uniform core - shell nanorods made by combining two dissimilar materials.
Not exact matches
The
produced structures resemble tiny bottlebrushes with polymer «hairs» on the
nanorod surface.
The two controls did not
produce any thermal ablation effect on the skin, but the NIR irradiated gold
nanorod patches heated the skin to around 43 degrees Celsius.