Synthesis and activation of an iron oxide immobilized drug-mimicking reporter under conventional and pulsed X-ray irradiation conditions

RSC Adv. 2020 Jan 21;10(6):3366-3370. doi: 10.1039/c9ra09828c. eCollection 2020 Jan 16.

Abstract

An efficient nano-sized delivery system is presented here allowing the immobilized, picolinium-tethered organic ligand to be released by X-ray irradiation. A marked difference was observed in the fragmentation efficiency by using conventional Cs-137 vs. pulsed sources.