Oxidation-responsive polymeric vesicles

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 183-189

  Napoli, Alessandro ^a   Valentini, Massimiliano ^a   Tirelli, Nicola ^a,b   Müller, Martin ^c   Hubbell, Jeffrey A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MICELLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OXIDATION; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PROTONS; SELF ASSEMBLY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BLOCK COPOLYMERIC AMPHIPHILES; POLYMERIC VESICLES;

POLYMERS;

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; POLYMER; SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; TIME;

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYMERS; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1542303712     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1081     Document Type: Article

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