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Please release me: The heat generated when metal nanoparticles absorb light results in a significant increase in the temperature of the environment around the particles and is used to selectively break bonds within a molecular system anchored to the nanoparticle surface (see picture). This process represents an advantageous and more universal method to deliver chemicals locally, while avoiding excessive tissue damage.

The guanidinato- or amidinato-bridged diarsenes [As2{mu-(ArN)2CR}2] (Ar = C6H3Pri2-2,6; R = N(C6H11)2, NPri2, or But) have been prepared by reduction of the corresponding As(III) precursors, [Cl2As{kappa2-N,N'-(ArN)2CR}]. Theoretical studies suggest that the As-As bonds of the dimers have significant double-bond character, the sigma and pi components of which are derived mainly from As p orbital overlaps.

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