How to build a nanocage: Self-assembling silica

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Researchers have created and imaged a self-assembling silica dodecahedron. The nanocage, measuring only 11.8nm across, could one day be used in cancer therapies. Find out more in this Nature Video.

Read more in the research paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0221-0

20th June 2018

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