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Stable amphiphilic supramolecular self-assembly based on cyclodextrin and carborane for the efficient photodynamic
Hejian Xiong1, Dongfang Zhou, Xiaohua Zheng
1State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, P. R. China. east@ciac.ac.cn ybhuang@ciac.ac.cn.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|February 18, 2017
Abstract:
Novel and stable supramolecular nanoparticles (NP) were prepared based on the high affinity of carboranes to β-cyclodextrin for the efficient photodynamic therapy of porphyrin in vitro.
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