Poly (ethylene glycol)(PEG), which is considered as a gold standard for surface modification
of nanoparticles in biomedical applications, has been reported to encounter the accelerated …

Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is a multifunctional polymer that has many uses in medical and
biological applications. Recently, PEG has been mainly used in developing nanomaterial …

Introduction into the human body makes most nanoparticle systems susceptible to
aggregation via nonspecific protein binding. Here, we developed a peptide-capped gold …

Abstract Background Peptide-drug-conjugates (PDCs) are being developed as an effective
strategy to specifically deliver cytotoxic drugs to cancer cells. However one of the challenges …

Engineered peptide-based drug delivery systems have gained substantial momentum in the
field of diagnostics and therapeutics owing to their superior biocompatibility, facilitation in …

Functionalization of nanostructures such as gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with different
biological molecules has many applications in biomedical imaging, clinical diagnosis and …

In this work, we took advantage of a one-pot reaction to prepare tumor-targeting
nanoparticles (Au@ T), which could respond to the intracellular acidic environment and form …

Preventing protein corona formation and macrophage uptake is the key to improving the
delivery efficiency of nanocarriers. Herein, we present a kind of cross-linking poly (ethylene …

It is well known that stealth coating effectively extends the circulation lifetime of
nanomaterials in blood, which favors systemic delivery but also limits their cellular …

Golden bullets: The amphipathic prolinerich cellpenetrating peptide sweet arrow peptide
(SAP) is able to transport 12 nm gold nanoparticles efficiently into HeLa cells, as observed …