In vitro toxicity and bioimaging studies of gold nanorods formulations coated with biofunctional thiol-PEG molecules and Pluronic block copolymers

• Main Authors: Gong, Tianxun, Goh, Douglas, Olivo, Malini, Yong, Ken-Tye
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103908; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20039
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this work, we investigated the cytotoxicity, colloidal stability and optical property of gold nanorods before and after functionalizing them with thiolated PEG and Pluronic triblock copolymer (PEO–PPO–PEO) molecules. The morphology of functionalized gold nanorods was characterized by UV–visible a...