Emergence and utility of nonspherical particles in biomedicine

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 54, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 4043-4059

  Fish, Margaret B ^a   Thompson, Alex J ^a   Fromen, Catherine A ^a   Eniola Adefeso, Omolola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CONTROLLED RELEASE; DRUG CARRIER SYSTEMS; NONSPHERICAL PARTICLE; PARTICLE GEOMETRIES; PARTICLE SHAPE; TARGET CELLS; TARGET TISSUES;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH;

EID: 84929485387     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie504452j     Document Type: Article

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