Naomi J. Halas

Naomi Halas is a University Professor and the Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University, where she founded the Laboratory for Nanophotonics. She is the inventor of gold nanoshells — hollow gold nanoparticles that absorb near-infrared light and convert it to heat — and a pioneering figure in plasmonics. Her gold nanoshell technology led to AuroShell (now commercialized by Nanospectra Biosciences), which has been used in clinical trials for photothermal ablation of head and neck cancer, prostate cancer, and breast cancer. Near-infrared laser activation of tumor-accumulated nanoshells can ablate tumors with minimal systemic side effects. She has published over 350 papers with over 60,000 citations and has received every major award in nanoscience and chemistry. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and National Academy of Inventors.

Naomi Halas 是莱斯大学的大学教授，也是该校纳米光子学实验室的创始人和Stanley C. Moore电气与计算机工程教授。她是金纳米壳的发明者——这种空心金纳米颗粒能够吸收近红外光并将其转化为热量——也是等离激元学领域的开创性人物。 她的金纳米壳技术催生了AuroShell（现由Nanospectra Biosciences商业化），该技术已在头颈癌、前列腺癌和乳腺癌的光热消融临床试验中使用。肿瘤积聚纳米壳的近红外激光激活可以以最小的系统性副作用消融肿瘤。