Sentences with word «nanoparticle»

The value of nanoparticles made of diamond is multifaceted.

The researchers were able to «replicate» the varying real - body conditions in a lab, and test the behaviour of nanoparticles in different blood and lymph flows.

For example, farmers have used silver nanoparticles as a pesticide because of their capability to suppress the growth of harmful organisms.

«The potential damage to tissues located behind cell barriers needs to be considered when using nanoparticles for targeting disease states,» the team writes.

The new technology, dubbed «solar steam», uses nanoparticles submerged in water to convert the sunlight into heat.

They can not all be injected directly, so the group hopes to find a way to get the gold nanoparticles into tissues throughout the body.

On the contrary, there are numerous studies which demonstrate the toxicity of silver nanoparticles on cells.

Researchers are also looking at nanoparticles as a way to transport drugs across the blood - brain barrier, a wall of tightly connected cells that keeps most medication out of the brain.

The group of scientists has identified a new process by which holes get trapped in nanoparticles made of zinc oxide.

Once the virus infected neurons with the heat - sensing gene, the researchers injected magnetic nanoparticles into the same brain cells.

Instead of noble metal nanoparticles, they used single atoms of nickel.

Already, researchers have packaged cancer - fighting drugs into nanoparticles coated with part of a rabies surface protein that lets the virus slip into the central nervous system.

Did you know that the atmosphere is constantly filled with nanoparticles from volcanic ash, sea spray, cosmic dust, and smoke.

Today about 5 percent of cosmetics contain nanoparticles but are generally not labeled for consumers.

The healthy patients who received the alternative lipid nanoparticles showed an even bigger decrease, averaging as much as 87 %.

He said the industry lacks a uniform method to test and optimize custom - designed nanoparticles for particular formations and fluids.

For the past two decades, scientists have been developing nanoparticles made from a broad range of materials and adding compounds such as cholesterol to help carry these therapeutic agents into cells.

These waves then travel along a chain of nanoparticles at approximately 10 % of the speed of light.

How nanoparticles can best navigate the body's fluids to deliver medicine is a huge area of focus for scientists.

When the platinum nanoparticles catch molecules from the surrounding gas and combine them with oxygen atoms from the iron - oxide surface, a surplus of iron atoms remains.

The researchers modified the inner surface of the analytical apparatus, optimized measurement parameters such as flow speed, and tuned the surface properties of the target nanoparticles.

Previous research on mice found that nanoparticles carrying genes can be taken up by brain cancer cells, and the genes can then be turned on.

In most cases, industrial production of metallic nanoparticles involves chemical reduction in liquid solutions, which requires the design of product - specific solutions.

To date, building designers have had to investigate air filters under their own initiative, because the current standards and those taking effect next year take no account of small nanoparticles.

How do tiny nanoparticles put the squeeze a virus that is many, many times their size?

The researchers developed a new composite catalyst using nitrogen - rich graphene dotted with copper nanoparticles.

Such crystals are easy to replicate in the laboratory using polymer nanoparticles.

The biological activity of metallic silver nanoparticles does not require that the silver combine with biological material in the body.

Some of the worry about exposure to engineered nanoparticles arises from their unintended counterparts, often found in air pollution.

The latest estimates suggest that nanoparticles cause around 7 million premature deaths around the globe each year.

This research makes a significant advance on previous efforts that have typically produced nanoparticles limited to only three different elements and to structures that do not mix evenly.

Then, the team used this result to predict how titanium dioxide nanoparticles grow on the template.

These components were packaged inside nanoparticles and suspended in a solution.

But they can have a huge impact because nanoparticles of silver are powerful germ fighters.

If nanoparticles are lost in the analytical apparatus, they are not detected, and a «false negative» result occurs.

Other nanoparticles in development could be injected to rev up the immune system's ability to attack malignant cells.

They used very tiny rod - shaped bits of gold, called nanoparticles.

What do you need to know about nanoparticles in baby formula?

A magnet pulled «smart» nanoparticles through a mouse's bloodstream into its brain, similar to this figure.

The researchers hope to make the material better by adding nanoparticles to the polymer.

The silicon nanoparticles it produces may even enable lithium battery capacity to be boosted by a factor of 10.

But he cautions that there is no evidence that all positively charged nanoparticles behave this way.

But injected nanoparticles only work near the spot they were injected — and they don't remain there for very long.

The research team incorporated dye molecules into the self - assembled nanoparticles to simulate what might be done to incorporate and then release chemotherapy agents.

These cells can go in and fix the damaged tissue inside, almost like nanoparticles.

The researchers wanted to try making the virus - shell nanoparticles using plants.

The lab findings do support a trend of uncertainty growing around nanoparticles in consumer products.