Patent ID: 9662389
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: A61K,A61P

Claim:
1. A functionalized nanoparticle, consisting of: a core, having a shell on at least a portion thereof, wherein the core is a material that can convert applied X-ray energy into emitted UV energy and wherein the shell is a plasmonics active material selected from the group consisting of gold, silver, gallium, platinum, palladium, nickel, aluminum and metal alloys consisting of a combination of the above materials, wherein the material that can convert applied X-ray energy into emitted UV energy is a material selected from the group consisting of metals, quantum dots, semiconductor materials, scintillation and phosphor materials, materials that exhibit X-ray excited luminescence (XEOL), organic solids, metal complexes, inorganic solids, crystals, rare earth and rare earth oxide materials, polymers, scintillators, phosphor materials, and materials that exhibit excitonic properties, which may optionally contain one or more dopants;