Supramolecular Controlled Cargo Release via Near Infrared Tunable Cucurbit[7]uril-Gold Nanostars

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Han, Yanwei ^a   Yang, Xiran ^a   Liu, Yingzhu ^a   Ai, Qiushuang ^a   Liu, Simin ^a   Sun, Chunyan ^c   Liang, Feng ^a,b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 84959420519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep22239     Document Type: Article

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