Maria Montes-Bayón

Nanomaterials have a tremendous impact on our daily life, but usually in a beneficial way because of their useful properties. 

Analysis of the compositional variation in living cells is essential for understanding biological processes. Single-cell elemental analysis by triple-quadrupole ICP-MS is emerging as a selective, highly sensitive, and potentially high-throughput technique for the study of constitutive elements, and uptake of metallodrugs (or metal-containing nanomaterials) in single cells.