Targeting protein-loaded CB[8]-mediated supramolecular nanocarriers to cells

Emanuela Cavatorta1, Jens Voskuhl1, Dorothee Wasserberg2

  • 1Molecular Nanofabrication Group, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, Department of Science and Technology, University of Twente, P. O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands. Email: p.jonkheijm@utwente.nl;

RSC Advances
|March 24, 2018
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