FUNCTIONALIZED NANOMATERIALS FOR DERMAL DECORPORATION, CHELATION, THERAPY, AND SORBENT DIALYSIS OF RADIOUNUCLIDES AND TOXINS

摘要

A sorbent is disclosed composed of functionalized nanomaterials that capture and sequester heavy metals, radionuclides, and metabolic wastes from within a biological system suitable e g, for chelation therapies and heme-perfusion of metals n the presence of competing ions and proteins The sorbent also captures and sequesters heavy metals and radionuclides from dermal surfaces when disperseα in a gel-forming earner. The sorbent may also be embodied in various devices allowing for treatment and removal of preselected target materials through a variety of methodologies including oral hemoperfusion, and dermal decorporation pathways6.