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Using biofunctional magnetic nanoparticles to capture gram-negative bacteria at an ultra-low concentration
Hongwei Gu1, Pak-Leung Ho, Kenneth W T Tsang
1Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|August 23, 2003
Abstract:
After conjugation to vancomycin (Van), chemically stable and highly magnetic anisotropic FePt magnetic nanoparticles (approximately 4 nm) become water-soluble and capture E. coli at 15 cfu mL(-1).