“…To functionalise the nanoparticles, the peptide FluPep ligand was included in the ligand mix, its mole % in relation to the matrix ligand reflects its grafting density on the gold nanoparticles (Levy et al, 2006, Duchesne et al, 2008a, Duchesne et al, 2012, Paramelle et al, 2015, Nieves et al, 2014. This can be determined by chromatography targeting specifically the grafted function, which also provides a means to purify the functionalised gold nanoparticles from those not Mix matrix gold nanoparticles did not to CM Sepharose nor to DEAE Sepharose ( Fig.…”