Particle class

Materials

Applications

Natural

Chitosan

Drug/Gene delivery

Materials or

Dextrane

derivative

Gelatine

Alginates

Liposomes

Starch

Dendrimers

Branched polymers

Drug delivery

Fullerenes

Carbon based carriers

Photodynamics

Drug delivery

Polymer carriers

Polylactic acid

Poly(cyno)acrylates

Polyethyleinemine

Block copolymers

Polycaprolactone

Drug/Gene delivery

Ferrofluids

SPIONS

USPIONS

Imagine (MRI)

Quantum dots

Cd/Zn-selenides

Imaging

In virto diagnostics

Various

Silca-nanoparticles

Mixture of above

Gene delivery