Heterocoagulation as a facile route to prepare stable serum albumin-nanoparticle conjugates for biomedical applications: Synthetic protocols and mechanistic insights

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 8261-8279

  Au, Kin Man ^a   Armes, Steven P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

heterocoagulation; polypyrrole nanoparticles; protein adsorption; protein nanoparticle interactions; serum albumin

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMINS; COLLOIDAL STABILITY; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HETERO-COAGULATION; IRREVERSIBLE ADSORPTION; MECHANISTIC ASPECTS; PHOTOSEDIMENTOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION; PLASMA PROTEIN; POLYVINYLAMINES; PROTEIN ADSORPTION; SERUM ALBUMIN; STABILIZING AGENTS; SYNTHETIC PROTOCOLS; THIOL-DISULFIDE; TIME-RESOLVED DYNAMICS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY TEM;

ADSORPTION; BODY FLUIDS; COAGULATION; DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; ELECTROPHORESIS; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHOTOELECTRONS; POLYPYRROLES; PROTEINS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

NANOPARTICLES;

BIOMATERIAL; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER; POLYPYRROLE; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DRUG STABILITY; HUMAN; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BLOOD COAGULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DRUG STABILITY; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERS; PROTEIN BINDING; PYRROLES; SERUM ALBUMIN; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84866692731     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn302968j     Document Type: Article

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