Table 3 Calculated thermal and non-thermal weighting factors for 37.0 °C and 43.4 °C trials.

From: Kinetic modelling of ultrasound-triggered chemotherapeutic drug release from the surface of gold nanoparticles

Variable water bath temperature

DOX release contributions

Value (%)

37.0 °C

Thermal (\({\omega }_{T}\))

60 ± 5

Non-thermal (\({\omega }_{NT}\))

40 ± 7

43.4 °C

Thermal (\({\omega }_{T}\))

66 ± 4

Non-thermal (\({\omega }_{NT}\))

34 ± 5

  1. All values are averaged over six experiments with uncertainty taken as the standard error.
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