Infrared-Mediated Drug Elution Activity of Gold Nanorod-Grafted TiO₂ Nanotubes

Table 1

EDX results of GNR-grafted TiO₂ nanotubes treated by various concentrations of aqueous thiolactic acid solution.

		Weight %
	kV	C	Ti	Au	O
(1) 1 M thiolactic acid	5	1.97 ± 0.12	51.77 ± 1.95	5.74 ± 0.68	40.52 ± 1.92
	10	1.73 ± 0.16	53.96 ± 0.55	3.27 ± 0.44	41.05 ± 0.53
	15	1.4 ± 0.14	58.03 ± 0.32	1.26 ± 0.23	41.31 ± 0.30
	20	0.99 ± 0.29	57.03 ± 0.50	1.12 ± 0.32	40.86 ± 0.47
(2) 0.5 M thiolactic acid	5	1.27 ± 0.09	52.72 ± 1.84	6.61 ± 0.68	39.40 ± 1.81
	10	1.61 ± 0.16	54.04 ± 0.56	3.52 ± 0.45	40.83 ± 0.54
	15	1.51 ± 0.18	55.65 ± 0.39	1.47 ± 0.29	41.37 ± 0.37
	20	1.43 ± 0.2	53.30 ± 0.33	0.76 ± 0.21	41.51 ± 0.32
(3) 0.1 M thiolactic acid	5	1.84 ± 0.10	47.69 ± 1.68	12.23 ± 0.73	38.24 ± 1.62
	10	1.79 ± 0.16	52.10 ± 0.53	5.83 ± 0.46	40.28 ± 0.51
	15	1.14 ± 0.20	55.82 ± 0.43	2.40 ± 0.34	40.63 ± 0.41
	20	0.98 ± 0.22	56.52 ± 0.37	1.91 ± 0.24	40.59 ± 0.35