Fig. 7
From: New opportunities for RGD-engineered metal nanoparticles in cancer
(a) A scheme showing the preparation of Pd NPs and further surface coating with thiloated chitosan oligosaccharide (Pd@COS NPs) and finally functionalization using RGD peptide (Pd@COS-RGD). (b) A systematic illustration showing the photothermal ablation and photoacoustic imaging of tumor tissue using Pd@COS-RGD. Reproduced with permission from ref [180]