Impedance Based Nanotoxicity Assessment of Graphene Nanomaterials at the Cellular and Tissue Level

Analytical Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 272-282

  Hondroulis, Evangelia ^a   Zhang, Zhiqi ^a   Chen, Chunying ^b   Li, Chen Zhong ^a  

^a The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Electrical impedance biosensor; Graphene; Nanotoxicity

Indexed keywords

RATTUS;

EID: 84863026491     PISSN: 00032719     EISSN: 1532236X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00032719.2011.633184     Document Type: Article

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