Instrument: Vasco
Industry: Nanomedicine
DOI: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2020/ra/d0ra06069k
Keywords: Proteinoids, polymerization, proteinoid nanoparticles, self-assembly, tumor targeting
Proteinoids are non-toxic biodegradable polymers based on thermal step-growth polymerization of natural or synthetic amino acids. Hollow proteinoid nanoparticles (NPs) may then be formed via a self-assembly process of the proteinoid polymers in an aqueous solution. (230 characters)