Prospects and Challenges of Graphene-Based Nanomaterials in Nanomedicine

 

Authored by Arghya Narayan Banerjee

Graphene is considered to be the ‘wonder material’ because of many unique and fascinating properties, such as high mechanical strength (200 times stronger than steel.

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