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Article Dans Une Revue Biomedical optics express Année : 2011

Nanoshells for photothermal therapy: a Monte-Carlo based numerical study of their design tolerance

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The optimization of the coated metallic nanoparticles and nanoshells is a current challenge for biological applications, especially for cancer photothermal therapy, considering both the continuous improvement of their fabrication and the increasing requirement of efficiency. The efficiency of the coupling between illumination with such nanostructures for burning purposes depends unevenly on their geometrical parameters (radius, thickness of the shell) and material parameters (permittivities which depend on the illumination wavelength). Through a Monte-Carlo method, we propose a numerical study of such nanodevice, to evaluate tolerances (or uncertainty) on these parameters, given a threshold of efficiency, to facilitate the design of nanoparticles. The results could help to focus on the relevant parameters of the engineering process for which the absorbed energy is the most dependant. The Monte-Carlo method confirms that the best burning efficiency are obtained for hollow nanospheres and exhibit the sensitivity of the absorbed electromagnetic energy as a function of each parameter. The proposed method is general and could be applied in design and development of new embedded coated nanomaterials used in biomedicine applications.

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hal-00704076 , version 1 (04-06-2012)

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Sameh Kessentini, G. Grehan, Marc Lamy de La Chapelle, Thomas Grosges, Dominique Barchiesi. Nanoshells for photothermal therapy: a Monte-Carlo based numerical study of their design tolerance. Biomedical optics express, 2011, 2 (6), pp.1584-1596. ⟨10.1364/BOE.2.001584⟩. ⟨hal-00704076⟩
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