Non-spherical Gold Nanoparticles: Tumor Imaging and Therapy

Non-spherical Gold Nanoparticles (AuNPs), with unique geometries properties, have become the new exciting focus of applications in tumor imaging and therapy recently. In this review, we summarized the properties and applications of non-spherical AuNPs for cancer imaging and therapy. We review four typical shapes of non-spherical AuNPs from their applications and advantages with the great optimism to the applications of non-spherical AuNPs in medicine.