Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, UMR 5253, Chimie Moléculaire et Organisation du Solide, Université Montpellier II, Place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier cedex 5, France.
Abstract:
New water-soluble paramagnetic Gd-containing cyano-bridged metallic coordination polymer nanoparticles with a chitosan shell show high nuclear relaxivity in acidic water which is up to six times higher than that of the actually used Gd-chelates.