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US 2017/0115227 A1Published application
Plasmonic-magnetic bifunctional nanotubes for biological applications
AssigneeBoard of Regents, The University of Texas System
InventorsDonglei Fan, Xiaobin Xu
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Abstract
The present invention includes nanotubes or rods, methods and arrays using plasmonic-magnetic bifunctional nanotubes or rods comprising: one or more silica nanotubes or rods; one or more nanomagnets embedded in a portion of the silica nanotubes or rods; and plasmonic metal nanoparticles uniformly coating in or on at least a portion of the surface of the nanomagnets and the silica nanotubes surface-coated.
Claims16
1-49. (canceled)
A plasmonic-magnetic bifunctional nanocapsule comprising:
- a silica nanotube having a metallic rod embedded therein;
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- metallic nanoparticles coated on a surface of the silica nanotube.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.