“…Plasmonic gold nanostructures, thus, show great promise for the selective PPTT of cancer as well as other diseases . The different gold nanostructures that have shown this property include nanoshells (Gobin et al, 2007;Hirsch et al, 2003;Lal et al, 2008;O'Neal et al, 2004;Shetty et al, 2008), nanorods (Hauck et al, 2008;Huang et al, 2006;Huff et al, 2007;Jang et al, 2011;Niidome et al, 2009), and nanocages (Chen et al, 2005(Chen et al, , 2007(Chen et al, , 2010Hu et al, 2006b).…”