Intensified and controllable vaporization of phase-changeable nanodroplets induced by simultaneous exposure of laser and ultrasound

• Main Authors: Zhang, Qi, Yang, Yanye, Xue, Honghui, Zhang, Haijun, Yuan, Ziyan, Shen, Yuchen, Guo, Xiasheng, Fan, Zheng, Wu, Xiaoge, Zhang, Dong, Tu, Juan
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Engineering; Phase-changeable contrast agents; Gold-nanoparticle-loaded nanodroplets
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174611
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Phase-changeable contrast agents have been proposed as a next-generation ultrasound contrast agent over conventional microbubbles given its stability, longer circulation time and ability to extravasate. Safe vaporization of nanodroplets (NDs) plays an essential role in the practical translation of N...