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Nanoparticles on the move for medicine

2018

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Peer Fischer outlines the prospects for creating “nanoswimmers” that can be steered through the body to deliver drugs directly to their targets Molecules don’t move very fast on their own. If they had to rely solely on diffusion – a slow and inefficient process linked to the Brownian motion of small particles and molecules in solution – then a protein mole­cule, for instance, would take around three weeks to travel a single centimetre down a nerve fibre. This is why active transport mechanisms exist in cells and in the human body: without them, all the processes of life would happen at a pace that would make snails look speedy.

Author(s): Fischer, Peer
Journal: Physics World Focus on Nanotechnology
Pages: 26028
Year: 2018
Month: April
Day: 11
Editors: Margaret Harris
Publisher: IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors

Department(s): Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
Bibtex Type: Article (article)

State: Published
URL: http://live.iop-pp01.agh.sleek.net/physicsworld/reader/#!edition/editions_nano_2018/article/page-26018

BibTex

@article{2018fischer,
  title = {Nanoparticles on the move for medicine},
  author = {Fischer, Peer},
  journal = {Physics World Focus on Nanotechnology},
  pages = {26028},
  editors = {Margaret Harris},
  publisher = {IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors},
  month = apr,
  year = {2018},
  doi = {},
  url = {http://live.iop-pp01.agh.sleek.net/physicsworld/reader/#!edition/editions_nano_2018/article/page-26018},
  month_numeric = {4}
}