Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Applications of Gold Nanoparticles

Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) have been extensively used in various applications in pharmaceuticals applications. Due to their unique characteristics such as tunable surface properties as well as surface plasmon resonance (SPR), GNPs have garnered attention in various applications exclusively in therapy and diagnostics. Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) are one of many NPs that have long been the focus of research. Due to their flexibility in synthesis and functionalization, GNPs have been profoundly used in treatments and diagnostic purpose. This article discusses and highlights therapeutic characteristics of GNPs that have been exploited in biomedical applications in recent years to improve biomedical research in various biomedical field such as nuclear medicine, molecular imaging and contrast agent, vaccine development, medical implant, diagnostics, biosensing, and lab-on-chip applications. At the forefront of modern therapeutic technology, GNPs based cancer treatment, antiviral agents and etc., have great potential which is also highlighted briefly in this article