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Nanomaterials at work in biomedical research

Nature Materials volume 7, pages 758–760 (2008)Cite this article

With some nanomaterial-based medicines having entered the marketplace, and more on the verge of doing so, nanomedicine is expected to become an exciting playground for chemists and material scientists.

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Figure 1: Examples demonstrating the use of nanomaterials in biomedical engineering.
Figure 2: Scanning electron microscope image of uniaxially aligned nanofibres (∼250 nm in diameter) of poly(ɛ-caprolactone) that were prepared by electrospinning.

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