Revisiting 30 years of biofunctionalization and surface chemistry of inorganic nanoparticles for nanomedicine

Frontiers in Chemistry

Volumn 2, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  Conde, João ^a   Dias, Jorge T ^b   Grazú, Valeria ^b   Moros, Maria ^b   Baptista, Pedro V ^c   de la Fuente, Jesus M ^b,d,e  

^a HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^d FUNDACIÓN ARAID   (Spain)

^e Shanghai Jiao Tong University   (China)

Author keywords

Biofunctionalization; Chemistry surface; Gold nanoparticles; Magnetic nanoparticles; Quantum dots

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987638434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2014.00048     Document Type: Review

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