Fig. 4From: Rational engineering of physicochemical properties of nanomaterials for biomedical applications with nanotoxicological perspectivesSEM micrographs of E. coli and phase contrast micrographs of human PC3 epithelial cells (a, e) before and (b–d, f–h) after treatment with AgNPsTyr, AgNPsTyr@PTA and AgNPsTyr@PMA, respectively (adopted from Ref. [34])Back to article page