Research Letters in Nanotechnology
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 389512, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/389512
Research Letter

Synthesis of PET-PLA/Drug Nanoparticles and Their Effect with Gold Nanoparticles for Controlled Drug Release in Cancer Chemotherapy

1Department of Chemical Engineering, SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam 603110, India
2Department of Chemical Engineering, Alagappa College of Technology, Anna University, Chennai 600025, India

Received 31 December 2007; Accepted 4 April 2008

Academic Editor: Lyudmila Bronstein

Copyright © 2008 K. Sathish Kumar et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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