How to Build a Nanocage: Self-Assembling Silica

The Uli Wiesner group has created and imaged a self-assembling silica dodecahedron. The nanocage, measuring only 11.8 nanometers across, could one day be used in cancer therapies.

Read more about Uli Wiesner's research: Tumor Tracker, Drug Conveyor, Healer

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