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. 2014 Jan 21;104(3):033701. doi: 10.1063/1.4862461

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Diagram of a nanoemulsion bead with a perfluorohexane core and gold nanospheres encapsulated on the oil-water interface, and laser pulse induced bubble formation of the bead. Heat released from the gold nanospheres induces a phase transition in the core, generating stronger photoacoustic signals compared to those by typical laser-sound conversion mechanism (i.e., thermal expansion).