Advances in chemistry and physics are providing an expanding array of nanostructured materials with unique and powerful optical properties. These nanomaterials provide a new set of tools that are available to biomedical engineers, biologists, and medical scientists who seek new tools as biosensors and probes of biological fluids, cells, and tissue chemistry and function. Nanomaterials are also being used to develop optically controlled devices for applications such as modulated drug delivery as well as optical therapeutics. This review discusses applications that have been successfully demonstrated using nanomaterials including semiconductor nanocrystals, gold nanoparticles, gold nanoshells, and silver plasmon resonant particles.

中文翻译：

---

用于生物光子学应用的工程纳米材料：改善感测，成像和治疗。

化学和物理技术的进步提供了具有独特而强大的光学性能的纳米结构材料的扩展阵列。这些纳米材料为生物医学工程师，生物学家和医学科学家提供了一套新的工具，他们正在寻求新的工具，例如生物传感器，生物流体，细胞，组织化学和功能的探针。纳米材料还被用于开发用于诸如调制药物递送以及光学治疗剂之类的应用的光学控制装置。这篇评论讨论了已成功使用纳米材料证明的应用，包括半导体纳米晶体，金纳米颗粒，金纳米壳和银等离子体激元共振颗粒。