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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 27.
Published in final edited form as: ACS Nano. 2010 Apr 27;4(4):2109–2123. doi: 10.1021/nn1000222

Table 3.

Comparison of the properties of plasmonic nanoparticles and plasmonic nanobubbles.

Properties Thermal Mechanical Optical Threshold Temporal
nature
Nanoparticle Thermal
diffusion
Acoustic wave Constant
scattering
Steady
Nanobubbl Thermal impact
is confined
inside PNB
thermal impact
Tunable and
localized expansion
Tunable
scattering
+ Transient