Sentences with phrase «carbon nanodots»

We don't yet know how to make Q - carbon nanodots or microneedles.

«We hope our research will lead to more effective antibiotics, and also that it will inspire other researchers to use carbon nanodots as scaffolding for a variety of applications,» said Dr. Ngu - Schwemlein.

The researchers behind the new study, from Winston - Salem State University in the US and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak in Malaysia, have found that adding similar, but smaller polycationic molecules onto a new kind of material called carbon nanodots makes them even better at killing drug - resistant bacteria.

There are chemical groups coating the surface of carbon nanodots that can help control the fluorescence properties of these tiny dots.

«Our study shows that carbon nanodots can serve as a molecular scaffold for building antimicrobial materials; it's exciting because carbon nanodots are relatively easy and cheap to make, they're non-toxic and soluble in water.»

The team wanted to make the smaller, more flexible molecules better and efficient antimicrobials by attaching them to the carbon nanodot scaffolding, so they built two different molecules: CND - PAM1 and CND - PAM2.

Not exact matches

Carbon nanodots are tiny particles of carbon that are useful in imaging, sensing, drug delivery and many other applications.

If Q - carbon is harder than diamond, why would someone want to make diamond nanodots instead of Q - carbon ones?