Very small nanoparticles made to measure

治疗药物的使用往往不成功，因为药物很快就会从体内清除出去。纳米颗粒已被证明可提高给药效率，市场上纳米制剂的数量不断增加证明了这一点，尽管目前商业上可获得的产品存在一系列缺点，其中一些与其尺寸有关。这项研究计划旨在开发一种工具包，允许设计具有增强生物活性的非常小的纳米颗粒。其结果将是深入了解聚合物结构和性能之间的关系，这不仅对纳米医学很重要，而且对催化和传感器等其他领域也很重要。

The administration of therapeutic drugs is often unsuccessful as the drug is quickly cleared from the body. Nanoparticles have been shown to enhance the efficiency of the drug administration, as evidenced by the increasing number of nanoformulations on the market, although commercially available products have currently a range of shortcomings, some of them related to their size. This research program aims to develop a toolset that allows the design of very small nanoparticles that display enhanced biological activity. The outcome will be an in-depth understanding of the relationship between polymer structure and properties, which is not only important for nanomedicine, but other areas such as catalysis and sensors.