Nano-fabricated materials in cancer treatment and agri-biotech applications: Buckyballs in quantum holy grails

IETE Journal of Research

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 339-356

  Majumder, Dwijesh Dutta ^a   Banerjee, Rajat ^b   Mukhopadhayay, Sunit K ^c   Ulrichs, Christian ^d   Mewis, Inga ^d   Samanta, Arunava ^e   Das, Asit ^e   Adhikary, Sujit ^a   Goswami, Arunava ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b CSIR CENTRAL GLASS AND CERAMIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c WEST BENGAL UNIVERSITY OF ANIMAL AND FISHERY SCIENCES   (India)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e BIDHAN CHANDRA KRISHI VISWAVIDYALAYA   (India)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Biotechnology; Cancer; Cybemetics; Nanoscience; Nanosilica; Nanotechnology; System biology

Indexed keywords

NANOSILICA; SYSTEM BIOLOGY;

AGRICULTURE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CYBERNETICS; NANOSCIENCE; ONCOLOGY; TUMORS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

AGRICULTURE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CANCERS; CYBERNETICS;

EID: 33947206482     PISSN: 03772063     EISSN: 0974780X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03772063.2006.11416474     Document Type: Article

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