Designing of gold nanostructure

During last decades nanotechnology grew widely on several fields from energy to medicine.

Nowadays, the so called nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine are opening new horizons on diseases monitoring and personalized therapies. Scaling down noble metals into nanometric structures produces interesting and, sometimes, unexpected properties that are not effective on the macrometric scale.

The case of gold nanostructure is one of the most studied because of their characteristic chemical inertia that prevents undesirable side effects into the hosting organism. At the same time, these nanostructures can be tuned to interact strongly with infrared light, that is considered a safe and useful source for diagnosis and drugs-free therapies.

The advent of high performing computational tools completely revolutionized the way in which such nanostructures are designed and produced. Simulating the interaction between complex nanostructures between each other and light helps the synthesis of materials with optimized performances. Our research projects are involved in computationally designing and then producing gold nanostructure as efficient sensors for diagnosis and for drug-free therapy. We are using the CloudVeneto resources for such use case

Prof. Moreno Meneghetti