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A size bandpass filter

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Figure 1: A schematic showing how the body handles renal clearable nanoparticles and when the glomerular filtration barrier kicks in during this process2,11.
Figure 2: The underlying cause of the 'inverted' size-dependency.

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  1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 27695, North Carolina, USA

    Yue Lu & Zhen Gu

  2. Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics and Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, Eshelman School of Pharmacy and Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, 27599, North Carolina, USA

    Yue Lu & Zhen Gu

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Lu, Y., Gu, Z. A size bandpass filter. Nature Nanotech 12, 1023–1025 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2017.200

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