Dynamism of stimuli-responsive nanohybrids: Environmental implications

Nanomaterials

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1102-1123

  Plazas Tuttle, Jaime ^a   Rowles, Lewis S ^a   Chen, Hao ^b   Bisesi, Joseph H ^b   Sabo Attwood, Tara ^b   Saleh, Navid B ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive nanohybrids (ANHs); Nano EHS; Nanotoxicity; Stimuli responsive

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937559737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20794991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nano5021102     Document Type: Article

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