Nano- and Biophotonics

Abstract

Nano- and biophotonics is a multidisciplinary scientifically rising field connecting together chemists, material engineers, physicists, optical engineers, and biologists. The field has high academic as well as industrial significance involving development of various devices usable for data sensing and manipulation, for example, for optics communication, as well as monitoring techniques that may be applicable for detection of cancer and other common diseases. The papers accepted for publication in this special issue implement the above-mentioned general description while showing the capability of various scientific disciplines to be implemented for biophotonic and biomedical applications. In the paper entitled “Uniformly immobilizing gold nanorods on a glass substrates” the authors present a new technique for uniformly disposing gold nanorods and nanoparticles on glass substrate. This activity can be appli- cable for biomedical imaging and treatment applications in which the nanoparticles are used to backscatter the applied illumination or when they are heated by external electro- magnetic or photonic source in order to kill cancer cells that are in proximity to the nanoparticles.