Recent Advances in Laser-Ablative Synthesis of Bare Au and Si Nanoparticles and Assessment of Their Prospects for Tissue Engineering Applications

Ahmed Al-Kattan (1) , Viraj P Nirwan (2, 3) , Anton Popov (4) , Yury Ryabchikov (2) , Gleb Tselikov (2) , Marc Sentis (2) , Amir Fahmi (3) , Andrei V Kabashin (2)

1 CIRIMAT - Centre interuniversitaire de recherche et d'ingenierie des matériaux
2 LP3 - Laboratoire Lasers, Plasmas et Procédés photoniques
3 Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences
4 National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" [Kiev]

Driven by surface cleanness and unique physical, optical and chemical properties, bare (ligand-free) laser-synthesized nanoparticles (NPs) are now in the focus of interest as promising materials for the development of advanced biomedical platforms related to biosensing, bioimaging and therapeutic drug delivery. We recently achieved significant progress in the synthesis of bare gold (Au) and silicon (Si) NPs and their testing in biomedical tasks, including cancer imaging and therapy, biofuel cells, etc. We also showed that these nanomaterials can be excellent candidates for tissue engineering applications. This review is aimed at the description of our recent progress in laser synthesis of bare Si and Au NPs and their testing as functional modules (additives) in innovative scaffold platforms intended for tissue engineering tasks.

Keywords: laser ablation in liquid; Electrospinning; Nanoparticles; Nanofibers; Scaffolds; Tissue engineering; Nanotheranostics

Domains: Physics [physics]; Condensed Matter [cond-mat]; Materials Science [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]; Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Optics [physics.optics]; Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Plasma Physics [physics.plasm-ph]

Ahmed Al-Kattan, Viraj P Nirwan, Anton Popov, Yury Ryabchikov, Gleb Tselikov, et al.. Recent Advances in Laser-Ablative Synthesis of Bare Au and Si Nanoparticles and Assessment of Their Prospects for Tissue Engineering Applications. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2018, 19 (6), pp.1563. ⟨10.3390/ijms19061563⟩. ⟨hal-02137905⟩