Photoswitchable Nanoparticles for Triggered Tissue Penetration and Drug Delivery

We report a novel nanoparticulate drug delivery system that undergoes reversible volume change from 150 to 40 nm upon phototriggering with UV light. The volume change of these monodisperse nanoparticles comprising spiropyran, which undergoes reversible photoisomerization, and PEGylated lipid enables...

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Main Authors: Tong, Rong, Hemmati, Houman D., Kohane, Daniel S., Langer, Robert S
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79103
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4255-0492