Inorganic Nanocrystals Functionalized Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles: Fabrication and Enhanced Bio-applications

Tiancong Zhao1, Nam-Trung Nguyen2, Yang Xie3

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Chemistry and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (2011-iChEM), Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Frontiers in Chemistry
|January 13, 2018
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