Click Chemistry for the Assembly of Gold Nanorods and Silver Nanoparticles

The synthesis of compact nanostructures with highly integratedfunctionalities through the controlled assembly ofnanoparticles (NPs) is potentially of broad interest in researchfields such as drug delivery, multimodal imaging, andelectronic devices. This concept seems to be particularlyimportant in view of the emerging concept of theranostic,according to which both therapeutic and diagnostic capabilitiescan be present in two nanostructures. A key step, however,is how to combine individual nanostructures withoutloosing the original properties.