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Graphene nanomesh promises extremely efficient in vivo photothermal therapy
, Article Small ; Volume 9, Issue 21 , 2013 , Pages 3593-3601 ; 16136810 (ISSN) ; Ghaderi, E ; Sharif University of Technology
2013
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Reduced graphene oxide nanomesh (rGONM), as one of the recent structures of graphene with a surprisingly strong near-infrared (NIR) absorption, is used for achieving ultraefficient photothermal therapy. First, by using TiO2 nanoparticles, graphene oxide nanoplatelets (GONPs) are transformed into GONMs through photocatalytic degradation. Then rGONMs functionalized by polyethylene glycol (PEG), arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (RGD)-based peptide, and cyanine 7 (Cy7) are utilized for in vivo tumor targeting and fluorescence imaging of human glioblastoma U87MG tumors having ανβ3 integrin receptors, in mouse models. The rGONM-PEG suspension (1 μg mL -1) exhibits about 4.2- and 22.4-fold higher NIR...
Nontoxic concentrations of PEGylated graphene nanoribbons for selective cancer cell imaging and photothermal therapy
, Article Journal of Materials Chemistry ; Volume 22, Issue 38 , 2012 , Pages 20626-20633 ; 09599428 (ISSN) ; Ghaderi, E ; Emamy, H ; Sharif University of Technology
2012
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Reduced graphene oxide nanoribbons functionalized by amphiphilic polyethylene glycol (rGONR-PEG) were applied to attach arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (RGD)-based peptide and cyanine dye 3 (cy3) for targeting ανβ3 integrin receptors on human glioblastoma cell line U87MG and its selective fluorescence imaging, respectively. The rGONR-PEG suspension with a concentration of 100 μg mL -1 showed ∼14 and 2.4-fold higher near infrared (NIR) absorption at 808 nm than GONR (with dimensions of ∼80 nm × 1 μm) and rGO-PEG sheets (with lateral dimensions of ∼2 μm), respectively. The rGONR-PEG-cy3-RGD exhibited highly efficient NIR photothermal therapy performance (concentrations ≥1.0 μg mL-1 resulted in...
Metal-nonmetal transition in the copper-carbon nanocomposite films
, Article Physica B: Condensed Matter ; Volume 405, Issue 18 , Jan , 2010 , Pages 3949-3951 ; 09214526 (ISSN) ; Vesaghi, M. A ; Shafiekhani, A ; Ahmadi, M ; Panahandeh, M ; Heidari Saani, M ; Sharif University of Technology
2010
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We prepared Cu nanoparticles in a-C:H thin films by co-deposition of RF-sputtering and RF-PECVD methods at room temperature. By increasing Cu content in these films a nonmetalmetal (NM) transition is observed. This transition is explainable by the power law of percolation theory. The critical metal content is obtained 56% and the critical exponent is obtained 1.6, which is larger than the exponent for 2 dimension systems and smaller than the one for 3 dimension systems. The electrical conductivity of dielectric samples was explained by tunneling. Activation tunneling energy that was obtained from temperature dependence of electrical resistivity correlates with near infrared absorption peak...