ADVANTAGES OF GOLD
NANOPARTICLES
Gold nanoparticles mediated drug delivery
systems have many advantages over other
nanocarriers as well as to conventional drugs.
Gold nanoparticles have been widely used as
acancer antigen and in tumor therapies [15].
Some advantages are listed here; (i) Gold
nanoparticles have unique optical [16], physical
and chemical properties [7] due to their size and
shape [9]; (ii) Gold nanoparticles have high
surface area [17] which provide dense drug
loading; (iii) These particles are biocompatible [1]
and are readily available for conjugation with
small biomolecules such as proteins, enzymes,
carboxylic acid, DNA, and amino acids [2];