Abstract
Folate-targeted silver/dendrimer nanocomposites were developed and tested on a human oral epidermoid cancer cell line. We observed a reduced threshold in targeted cells for femtosecond-laser-induced optical breakdown, which leads to selective photodisruption of cancer cells.
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