Nanoscale Research Letters, 4(2): 113-121 (2009)

This published research was awarded the 2009 award of the Italian-Switzerland Society of Biomedical and Chemical Sciences and Roche Diagnostics (Switzerland) Ltd., for researches in the fields of biomedicine and/or biotechnology.

Title:
Folate functionalised boron nitride nanotubes and their selective uptake by glioblastoma multiforme cells: implications for their use as boron carriers in clinical boron neutron capture therap

Authors:

Gianni Ciofani^{1, 2} , Vittoria Raffa¹, Arianna Menciassi^{1, 3} and Alfred Cuschieri¹