Hetero-bifunctional Poly(ethylene glycol) Modified Gold Nanoparticles as an Intracellular Tracking and Delivery Agent
Fu W., Shenoy D., Li J., Crasto C., Jones G., Dimarzio C., Sridhar S., Amiji M., Northeastern University, US
To increase the targeting potential, circulation time, and the flexibility of surface-attached biomedically-relevant ligands on gold nanoparticles, hetero-bifunctional poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG, MW 1,500) was synthesized having a thiol group on one terminus and a reactive [...]