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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Xia, Y. Nanomaterials at work in biomedical research. Nature Mater 7, 758–760 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2277
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