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From micro to nano in seconds

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Multimodal microbubbles exposed to ultrasound shrink to nanoparticles that retain the imaging and drug delivery potential of the parent microbubble.

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Figure 1: Conversion of microbubbles to nanoparticles using ultrasound.

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  1. Gregory M. Lanza is in the Department of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine, 4320 Forest Park Avenue, Suite 101, St Louis, Missouri 63108, USA,

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Lanza, G. From micro to nano in seconds. Nature Nanotech 10, 301–302 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.61

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