Royal Society of Chemistry, Journal of Materials Chemistry B: Materials for biology and medicine, 9(4), p. 1704-1711, 2016
DOI: 10.1039/c5tb02068a
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An orally-administered vehicle for targeted on-demand delivery to the gastrointestinal tract is presented. Hyperthermia is induced from an external AC magnetic field to melt a super paramagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle wax composite coating and hence release the capsule content.