Dual photoacoustic/ultrasound multi-parametric imaging from passion fruit-like nano-architectures

Passion fruit-like nano-architectures (pfNAs) are nature-inspired inorganic nanomaterials able to avoid the issue of persistence of noble metal nanoparticles in organisms while maintaining most of their intriguing features. Here we demonstrate by ex vivo investigations the intrinsic dual photoacoustic/ultrasound (PAUS) behaviors of pfNAs.163