Zhiqun Lin and Yihuang Chen, Georgia Institute of Technology (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Zhiqun Lin and Yihuang Chen, Georgia Institute of Technology (2 of 2)

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Georgia Tech Professor Zhiqun Lin and Postdoctoral Fellow Yihuang Chen are shown in the laboratory. The researchers have developed a new type of hairy nanoparticles made with light-sensitive materials that assemble themselves with light exposure. The nanoparticles could one day become "nano-carriers" providing doctors a new way to simultaneously introduce both therapeutic drugs and cancer-fighting heat into tumors.

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Rob Felt, Georgia Tech

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