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Engineered nanomaterial captures off-target cancer drug to prevent tissue damage

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Standard chemotherapies may efficiently kill cancer cells, but they also pose significant risks to healthy cells, resulting in secondary illness and a diminished quality of life for patients. To prevent the previously unavoidable damage, researche...

Jan 5, 2022

New color-coded test quickly reveals whether medical nanoparticles have successfully delivered their payload

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Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have developed a color-coded test that quickly signals whether newly developed nanoparticles—ultra small compartments designed to ferry medicines, vaccines and other therapies—deliver their cargo into target cell...

Jan 5, 2022

UCF Scientist Aims to Detect Animal-Borne Diseases Using Nanotechnology

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A researcher from the University of Central Florida (UCF) will be directing a new project that will use nanotechnology to further research activities involved in the detection and alleviation of...

Jan 5, 2022

Precise antitumor strategy achieved via photo-switchable lanthanide-doped nanoparticles

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Lanthanide-doped nanoparticles (LnNPs) can harvest the near-infrared (NIR) light to emit higher energy photons (upconversion) or lower energy photons (downshifting). In a recent study published in ACS Nano, a team led by Prof. CHANG Yulei from Cha...

Jan 5, 2022

Engineered adhesion makes programmed self-assembly of bacteria possible

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Researchers from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have reported the programmed self-assembly of bacterial populations by engineered adhesion.

Jan 5, 2022

Customizing Graphene Derivatives for Optoelectronic Applications

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A recent study published in the journal Nanomaterials demonstrates the influence of in situ photodegradation using ultraviolet (UV) illumination on the nonlinear optical response (NLO) of various...

Jan 5, 2022

Utilizing MXene Nanomaterials in High Performance Supercapacitors

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The synthetic procedures and characteristics of MXenes were described in a recent review reported in the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, in addition to the investigation of the usage of MXene...

Jan 5, 2022

Nanotechnology Renews Hope for Anticancer Drug, 5-Fluorouracil

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Novel research has recently come to light with a new study published by the International Journal of Pharmaceutics, which has outlined the innovative development of an oral anticancer drug,...

Jan 5, 2022

Suppressing the Auger recombination process in quantum dots: IBS research group reveals the underlying principle for controlling the transition dipole moment

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Quantum Dot (QD) is a nanometer-sized semiconductor nanocrystal that has unique optical properties such as the ability to emit light in the range of optical frequencies depending on its size. QDs have already been applied to practical optoelectron...

Jan 5, 2022

Graphene Based Coating Improves Ti Alloy Wear and Corrosion Resistance

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Researchers added graphene to electrolytes to manufacture a micro-arc oxidation coating to improve the corrosion and wear resistance of a Titanium alloy as reported in the latest article...

Jan 5, 2022

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