Fabrication of highly biocompatible SiO@Au-BSA nanoconjugates: Towards a promising thermal therapy route.

SiO@Au nanoshells have gained relevance in recent years, especially in biomedical areas, acting as thermal therapy agents due to their high capacity to absorb light and transform it into heat that increases the temperature of the medium. Therefore, it is important to develop methodological strategies to obtain stable, highly specific and biocompatible nanoparticles. In this work, the synthesis of core-shell structures based on SiO@Au is reported, where the growth a thin shell ⁓ 46 nm on silica platform was possible.