Investigating the effect of near infrared photo thermal therapy folic acid conjugated gold nano shell on melanoma cancer cell line A375.

Nowadays, there is growing interest regarding the use of metal Nanoshells as targeted agents of Nano-photo thermal cancer therapy. This study was aimed at synthesis the folic acid (FA)-conjugated with silica @gold core-shell nanoparticles (FA-SiO@AuNPs) for improving the treatment of melanoma cancer cells. The characterization data showed that the FA-SiO@AuNPs is spherical in shape and its size is ∼73.