Sentences with phrase «nanoparticles added a way»
The carbon nanotubes added flexibility and durability while the silver nanoparticles added a way to measure small changes in strain on the whiskers.
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But after incubating their nanoparticles with blood serum and then adding a mix of PLA2 molecules, the researchers found that the toxins pushed the other proteins out of the way, binding more tightly to the nanoparticles than anything else, they report this month in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
In a new twist on the use of DNA in nanoscale construction, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators put synthetic strands of the biological material to work in two ways: They used ropelike configurations of the DNA double helix to form a rigid geometrical framework, and added dangling pieces of single - stranded DNA to glue nanoparticles in place.
«Even to build such structures one - by - one would be challenging,» Liu added, «and we needed to do so by self - assembly because there is no way to manipulate billions of nanoparticles one — by — one.»