Tuning Autophagy-Inducing Activity and Toxicity for Lanthanide Nanocrystals by Yunjiao Zhang
English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 169 Pages | ISBN : 9811681651 | 39.1 MB
This thesis presents a simple, yet highly effective surface engineering solution that uses non-covalent binding peptides to control the autophagy-inducing activity of nanomaterials and nanodevices. The author presents RE-1, a short synthetic peptide that sequence-specifically binds to lanthanide (LN) oxide and upconversion nanocrystals with high affinity, which was discovered using an innovative phage display approach.