Colloidal micelles of block copolymers as nanoreactors, templates for gold nanoparticles, and vehicles for biomedical applications

Advances in Colloid and Interface Science

Volumn 213, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-20

  Bakshi, Mandeep Singh ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomedical applications; Block copolymer micelles; Gold nanoparticles; Nanoreactors

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BLOCK CO-POLYMER MICELLES; GOLD NANOPARTICLES;

NANOREACTORS;

COLLOID; DIOXANE DERIVATIVE; DRUG CARRIER; ETHYLENEDIAMINE DERIVATIVE; GOLD; LACTIC ACID DERIVATIVE; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; METAL NANOPARTICLE; MICELLE; POLOXAMER; POLY(ETHYLENE OXIDE)-B-POLY(D,L-LACTIDE); POLY(LACTIC ACID-ETHYLENE GLYCOL); TETRONIC 904;

CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; DRUG FORMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; MICELLE; PARTICLE SIZE; PROCEDURES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COLLOIDS; DIOXANES; DRUG CARRIERS; DRUG COMPOUNDING; ETHYLENEDIAMINES; GOLD; HUMANS; LACTATES; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICELLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PARTICLE SIZE; POLOXAMER; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED;

EID: 84908206140     PISSN: 00018686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2014.08.001     Document Type: Review

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