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Nanomedicine

Nanoparticles on the move for medicine

11 Apr 2018
This article first appeared in the 2018 Physics World Focus on Nanotechnology

Peer Fischer outlines the prospects for creating “nanoswimmers” that can be steered through the body to deliver drugs directly to their targets

Photo of nanopropellers
Moving right along: Nanopropellers can swim through dense liquids. The propeller in the image is 2 µm long. (Courtesy: Conny Miksch, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)
Molecules don’t move very fast on their own. If they had to rely solely on diffusion – a slow an

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Peer Fischer is a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Stuttgart and the head of the Micro Nano and Molecular Systems Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany, e-mail fischer@is.mpg.de

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