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complexed with each conjugate of the synthesised dendron-MWCNT series
at a 1:16 mass ratio on the basis of previous optimisation. 109 Interestingly, the
cellular internalisation of the siRNA was always nanotube-dependent, while
almost no uptake of siRNA alone was observed: in other words, the higher
the extent of the branching, the more eficient the delivery of siRNA, thus
suggesting promising applications in the ield of nanomedicine.

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