Sentences with phrase «assembled nanoparticles»

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By including chemotherapy molecules in the nanoparticle structures when they are assembled, the molecules could be drawn into tumors — and then released with the application of a light at a shorter wavelength that triggers disassembly through photo - cleavage.

Georgia Tech Professor Zhiqun Lin and Postdoctoral Fellow Yihuang Chen discuss samples of hairy nanoparticles made with light - sensitive materials that assemble themselves with light exposure.

These materials are sensitive to light, and cause the nanoparticles to self - assemble through a photo - dimerization process — crosslinking — when subjected to light at a wavelength of 365 nanometers.

Yet in addition to the direction Hedrick outlined, Louie sees a lot of potential to nanoparticles» ability to self assemble, creating a structure that could someday deliver medicine into the body and play an even bigger role in health care.

Lanza explained that these nanoparticles self - assemble, comparing the process to shaking up an oil and vinegar salad dressing with a bit of mayonnaise to stabilize the tiny particles and the Myc inhibitor in the mixture.

«My challenge is to make larger amounts of these nanoparticles, make sure I protect them, and find a way to assemble them.»

NIAID scientists and their partners held the stalks together by anchoring them to the protein ferritin, which can assemble itself into nanoparticles.

Biodegradable plastic molecules (orange) self - assemble with DNA molecules (intertwined, black circles) to form tiny nanoparticles that can carry genes to cancer cells.

To do this, they «chemically assembled a series of double - dot SETs by anchoring two gold nanoparticles between the nanogap electrodes with alkanedithiol molecules to form a self - assembled monolayer,» explained Yutaka Majima, a professor in the Materials and Structures Laboratory at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

By changing the crystallization speed of a polymer initially well mixed with nanoparticles, the team was able to control how the nanoparticles self - assemble into structures at three very different length scale regimes.

Kumar's group, experts in tuning the structure and therefore the properties of polymer nanocomposites, found that, by mixing nanoparticles in a solution of polymers (polyethylene oxide) and changing the crystallization speed by varying the degree of sub-cooling (namely how far below the melting point the crystallization was conducted), they could control how the nanoparticles self - assembled into three different scale regimes: nano, micro, and macro-meter.

The nanoparticles then assembled into sheets (10 − 100 nm) and the sheets into aggregates on the microscale (1 − 10 μm) when the polymer was crystallized.

«What we have shown is that nanoparticles of inorganic materials, just like the organic materials like early amino acids, can not only self - assemble, but can do so in a way that exhibits chirality,» said Nicholas Kotov, the Joseph B. and Florence V. Cejka Professor of Engineering and a professor of chemical engineering, materials science and engineering and molecular science and engineering at U-M.

The nanoparticles assemble themselves from zinc and a drug called oxaliplatin, which is widely used against advanced - stage metastatic colon cancer.

Researchers at HZB in co-operation with Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin (HU, Berlin) have made an astonishing observation: they were investigating the formation of gold nanoparticles in a solvent and observed that the nanoparticles had not distributed themselves uniformly, but instead were self - assembled into small clusters.

«DNA double helix does double duty in assembling arrays of nanoparticles.»

«This work demonstrates the unique capability of micro-to-nanoscale topographies of the crumpled graphene - Au nanoparticles — higher density, three - dimensional optically active materials — that are further enhanced by the formation of hot spots, bringing the nanoparticles closer,» explained Juyoung Leem, a graduate student and first author of the study, «Mechanically Self - Assembled, Three - Dimensional Graphene?Gold Hybrid Nanostructures for Advanced Nanoplasmonic Sensors,» published in Nano Letters.

Working with a world - leading group at the University of Connecticut in the USA, who pioneered the development of self - assembling protein nanoparticles (SAPNs) for vaccine design, they have used advanced mathematical calculations to create a complete picture of the surface morphology of these particles.

The anode, on the other hand, was made with phosphor deliberately optimized by coverage of ITO nanoparticles and assembled together with the cathode by the new stable assembling process resulting to stand - alone flat plane - emission panel.

Particle size matters for porous building blocks: Rice University scientists find porous nanoparticles get tougher under pressure, but not when assembled December 19th, 2017

• Gold nanogap electrodes trap tiny particles (Oct 2016) • Thermophoresis assembles plasmonic nanoparticles (Sep 2016)

Seeman used robust two dimensional arrays of DNA to make metallic nanoparticles assemble into a checkerboard pattern.

They discuss research into nucleation paths, nanoparticle interactions, and how lipids and other soft matter assembles into larger structures.

When tiny crystals known as nanoparticles assemble into complex, highly branched structures they gain unique properties that can be used to channel light, promote chemical reactions or store energy.

In a major advance for the nascent field of RNA nanotechnology, nanoparticles composed solely of chemically modified RNA were assembled, found to survive circulation in the bloodstream, be non-toxic and non-immunogenic, internalize into cancer cells specifically, and silence expression of cancer - promoting genes.

Photothermal effects of supramolecularly assembled gold nanoparticles for the targeted treatment of cancer cells.

The center vial shows dye released from self - assembled gold nanoparticles.