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Surface chemistry and entrapment of magnesium nanoparticles into polymeric micelles: a highly biocompatible tool for
E Locatelli1, P Matteini, F Sasdelli
1Department of Industrial Chemistry "Toso Montanari", University of Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 4, 40136 Bologna, Italy. mauro.comesfranchini@unibo.it.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 6, 2014
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A novel highly biocompatible nanosystem containing Mg nanoparticles is reported, characterized and tested as a suitable and non-toxic tool for photothermal therapy.
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