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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 8.
Published in final edited form as: MRS Bull. 2009 Jun;34(6):441–448. doi: 10.1557/mrs2009.120

Figure 8.

Figure 8

(a) Scanning electron microscope image of mesoporous silica nanospheres showing the formation of monodisperse, water-dispersable nanoparticles. (b) Schematic showing the Gd-(trimethoxysilylpropyl)diethylenetriamine tetraacetate (Gd-Si-DTTA) complexes residing in hexagonally ordered nanochannels of ∼2.4 nm in diameter.51