Synthesis and Activation of an Iron Oxide Immobilized Drug-mimicking Reporter Under Conventional and Pulsed X-ray Irradiation Conditions
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An efficient nano-sized delivery system is presented here allowing the immobilized, picolinium-tethered organic ligand to be released by X-ray irradiation. A marked difference was observed in the fragmentation efficiency by using conventional Cs-137 pulsed sources.
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