RESEARCH ARTICLE
A New Concept for Smart Drug Delivery: Adhesion Induced Nanovector Implosion§
Nicola M Pugno*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2008Volume: 2
First Page: 62
Last Page: 65
Publisher ID: TOMCJ-2-62
DOI: 10.2174/1874104500802010062
Article History:
Received Date: 6/3/2008Revision Received Date: 3/4/2008
Acceptance Date: 4/4/2008
Electronic publication date: 14/5/2008
Collection year: 2008

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Abstract
In this paper we show that controlling adhesion in highly flexible nanovectors can help in smartly delivering the drug. The high flexibility of the nanovector is used to smartly deliver the drug only at the target site by the new concept of “adhesion induced nanovector implosion”; a liquid drop analogy is developed for the calculations.