Dendrimers in Nanobiological Devices

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Lee, S. C. 2000. Dendrimers in nanobiological devices, in Tomalia, D. and Frechet, J. M. J. (eds). Dendritic Polymers-A New Macromolecular Architecture Based on the Dendritic State, John Wiley Sons, in press. 

S.C. Lee et al. Dendrimers in nanobiological devices, in Dendrimers and Other Derulritic Polymers, J.M.J. Frechet and D.A. TomaUa, Eds. John Wiley Sons West Sussex, pp. 547-554, 2001. 

Although many of the above examples are in the early stages of development, they have clearly demonstrated concepts that illustrate the current potential for dendrimers in a variety of nanodevices, many of them supramolecular or supramflcromolecular in nature. Figure 47 is a pictorial summary of some of these nanobiological devices. Further information on the individual concepts may be found in the literature [34,215,216]. 

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