Table 3.

Summary of experimental results.

Property	532 nm, 8 ns	800 nm, 30 fs
NP diameter	5–8 nm	14–27nm
ΔT, [AuCl4]−a	5.7 ± 0.6°C	0.7 ± 0.4 °C
ΔT, citrate AuNPb	10.5 ± 0.1 °C	2.0 ± 0.1 °C
Citrate-AuNP diameterc	4.5 ± 1.1 nm	14 ± 2 nm
E power law, trxn	−2.1 ± 0.4	−3.9 ± 0.3
E power law, k1	10 ± l	5.0 ± 0.5
E power law, k2	1.0 ± 0.3	3.7 ± 0.9

^a: Temperature increase after 9 minutes irradiation, relative to pure water.

^b: Temperature increase after 10 minutes irradiation.

^c: After 10 minutes irradiation.