Photoacoustic Imaging: Plasmonic Nanoparticles with Quantitatively Controlled Bioconjugation for Photoacoustic Imaging of Live Cancer Cells (Adv. Sci. 12/2016)

In article 1600237, an efficient method for quantitatively-controllable bioconjugation of a type of physically-fabricated gold nanoparticles is developed by C. Tian, W. Qian, and coworkers. This enables high-resolution photoacoustic imaging of single live cancer cells, and has potential impacts on cellular imaging, molecular imaging, clinical diagnostics, and optimized cancer therapy.