Applications of Gold Nanomaterials in Biomedicine

Abstract

With more deeply recent researches and studies about nanomaterials, such as nanoparticles, nanospheres and nanoshells, scientists found that nanomaterials have some specific advantages in terms of physical and chemical, optical, nuclear characteristics due to quantum size effect, which are ideally satisfied strict demand of high sensitivity and accuracy of biosensors. Nowadays, nanomaterials are widely used in the detection and treatment in medical domain. Among many categories of nanoparticles, gold nanomaterials are the most attractive one. As a result, this research mainly introduces a number of applications based on gold nanomaterials in different fields, such as DNA detection, cell imaging, protein detection and disease treatment. It will hope this research would expand the knowledge sight of advanced nanotechnology of readers. However, there also have many aspects of applications of gold nanomaterials waited to be found in future.