| Literature DB >> 23109494 |
Carolina Salvador-Morales1, Pedro M Valencia, Weiwei Gao, Rohit Karnik, Omid C Farokhzad.
Abstract
Spontaneous formation of heterogeneous patches on the surface of lipid-based nanoparticles (NPs) and microparticles (MPs) due to the segregation of two different functional groups. Patch formation is observed when tracing the functional groups with quantum dots, gold nanoparticles, and fluorescent dyes. This discovery could have important implications for the future design of self-assembled NPs and MPs for different biomedical applications.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 23109494 PMCID: PMC4157734 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201201499
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Small ISSN: 1613-6810 Impact factor: 13.281