Sentences with phrase «nanoparticles into»

Yet all is not bleak on the European front: a UK company has begun incorporating nanoparticles into paints, dubbed «ecopaint,» to give them the ability to remove pollutant particles such as nitrogen oxides and clean themselves.

It is certainly a travesty to push nanoparticles into products as a marketing gimmick, or to use nanotechnology where a perfectly good alternative currently available can be used without the uncertainties.

Alicia Taylor, Ian Marcus, Risa Guysi, and Sharon Walker, from the University of California, Riverside, introduced zinc oxide, cerium dioxide, and titanium dioxide nanoparticles into a model of the human colon.

«The world's most recognized geoengineer, Dr. David Keith, has stated on the record a goal of putting 10,000,000 to 20,000,000 tons of aluminum nanoparticles into the atmosphere annually as part of the solar radiation management operations»:

When we ingest colloidal silver, our small intestines can absorb around 10 — 18 % of silver nanoparticles into the bloodstream, while remaining silver nanoparticles pass through our gut.

One of his ideas involves inserting nanoparticles into cancer cells and watch them over time in order to track which cells metastasize, with the ultimate goal of developing future therapies.

2016-06-22 A method for embedding light - emitting nanoparticles into glass without losing any of their unique properties could be a...

Two research teams present two different methods for using single strands of DNA to link various nanoparticles into complex 3D arrays: one using DNA hairpins for dynamic reconfiguration and the other using a DNA origami scaffold.

«It also provides us with ideas for trapping carbon dioxide in useful materials to deal with the excess greenhouse gases we're putting in the atmosphere, or for incorporating light - responsive nanoparticles into highly ordered crystalline matrices for solar energy applications.»

They discovered that ions in solution can direct the rotation of nanoparticles into a matching crystal orientation - mimicking nature's pattern precisely - to produce perfect crystals.

«Nanocapillary - mediated magnetic assembly of nanoparticles into ultraflexible filaments and reconfigurable networks»

They also developed methods for introducing the nanoparticles into the donor organ before it is transplanted, so that only the organ is treated, not the whole body.

With the technology for arranging nanoparticles into predetermined lattices continuing to improve, it will be interesting to see what kinds of materials and device arrays are produced.

The patch — which is little bigger than a penny — is covered with more than 100 «microneedles» that sneak insulin nanoparticles into the body.

The scientists employed a technique developed by Gang that uses fabricated DNA as a building material to organize nanoparticles into 3D spatial arrangements.

Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that they can inject nanoparticles into injured joints in mice and suppress inflammation immediately following an injury, reducing the destruction of cartilage.

Now, scientists are trying to mimic this strategy to ferry tumor - killing nanoparticles into brain tumors.

Furthermore, as part of this study the team demonstrated the ability to position gold nanoparticles into prescribed 2D architectures less than two nanometers apart from each other along the crystal structure — a critical feature for future quantum devices and a significant technical advance for their scalable production, said co-lead author Wei Sun, Ph.D., Wyss Institute Postdoctoral Fellow.

Those are some of the reasons why companies are dumping nanoparticles into hundreds of products, including cosmetics, sunscreens, and food.

That's because, as determined in subsequent experiments, the addition of water vapor served to transform gold nanoparticles into channel diggers, rather than the expected wire makers.

To accomplish this, the scientists turned the cell membranes and nanoparticles into a kind of complex lock and key.

Rather than relying on a strain or an electrical field, the researchers incorporated zinc oxide nanoparticles into a PVDF thin film to trigger formation of the piezoelectric phase that enables it to harvest vibration energy.

«Utilizing the nanoparticle carrier with a core made of gold nanoparticles also made it possible to obtain evidence for the entry of nanoparticles into the tumor; we looked at the tumor under the electron microscope and observed the particles,» said post-doctoral fellow and first author Xiangsheng Liu.

He then placed small amounts of the charcoal - colored nanoparticles into a reaction chamber and passed mixtures of carbon dioxide and hydrogen through the powdery material.

To date, the method used to integrate upconversion nanoparticles into glass has relied on the in - situ growth of the nanoparticles within the glass.

Now, a study in mice points to a less invasive way to massage neuronal activity, by injecting metal nanoparticles into the brain and controlling them with magnetic fields.

Controlling the self - assembly of nanoparticles into superlattices is an important approach to build functional materials.

Next, the researchers incorporated the tungsten carbide nanoparticles into the membrane of a fuel cell.

«While achieving the spontaneous assembly of nanoparticles into a hierarchy of scales in a polymer host has been a «holy grail» in nanoscience, until now there has been no established method to achieve this goal,» says Dan Zhao, Kumar's PhD student and first author on this paper.

The metal concentrations, usually in the millimolar (mM) amount, need to be low in order to prevent aggregation of the nanoparticles into larger clusters that could significantly limit the amount of material that can be prepared at any one time.

To validate their findings, the scientists injected the novel nanoparticles into pancreatic tumor - bearing mice and observed that by balancing these two targets — bringing them to a normal level by increasing their expression or blocking the gene responsible for their expression — they significantly prolonged the survival of the mice.

Hearts are promising organs for the new technology because introducing nanoparticles into the wide - open spaces of the organ's atria and ventricles presents less of a challenge than incorporating the tiny magnets all throughout more solid structures like brains or livers, according to Kelvin Brockbank of Clemson University and Tissue Testing LLC, one of the authors of the paper who spoke to reporters during a 28 February teleconference.

The work done by Etxeberria consisted of synthesising composite cadmium and selenium nanoparticles, and subsequently, of analysing methods for inserting these nanoparticles into a polymer.

They injected the nanoparticles into a mouse's bloodstream through its tail.

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

The results will allow, for the first time, the imaging of nanoscale processes, such as the engulfment of nanoparticles into cells.

Pralle's approach, on the other hand, merely requires injecting a needle full of magnetically sensitive nanoparticles into specific brain areas.

The company has a useful technique for incorporating nanoparticles into polymers, but with only about ten employees, it lacks the resources to pursue the many possible applications.

Researchers deliver small interfering RNAs loaded into nanoparticles into the ears of adult guinea pigs to regenerate hair cells damaged by noise.

This allows the researchers to track the progress of the nanoparticle into the cancer cell to insure that it is in its target before light activation.

Researchers have developed an imaging technique that uses a tiny, super sharp needle to nudge a single nanoparticle into different orientations and capture 2 - D images to help reconstruct a 3 - D picture.

Not exact matches

The method involves tagging a molecular drug delivery vehicle with synthetic DNA that can then be used to see how cancerous tumors are responding to specific treatments (the drugs themselves are placed into these tagged nanoparticles).

Drawing on his 20 years of engineering experience, Chamtech Technologies founder Anthony Sutera began experimenting and eventually created a liquid composed of nanoparticles, that when dried, could function as a highly efficient antenna — whether painted onto a building or injected directly into the molding of a cell - phone case.

Another addition is the introduction of nanoparticles of clay into packaging to block oxygen, carbon dioxide, moisture from reaching the food, and also aids in preventing spoilage.

BACTERIA - HUNTING VIRUSES Viruses (one illustrated, center) can be engineered to carry magnetic nanoparticles and modified DNA, transforming them into nanobots that detect bacteria in water or food.

Most of this plastic disintegrates into particles smaller than five millimetres, referred to as microplastics, and breaks down further into nanoparticles, which are less than 0.1 micrometre in size.

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.

That's one potential application for a new technology that combines water - repelling yet light - sensitive and water - absorbing materials into polymeric nano - reactors for creating photo - responsive gold nanoparticles.

Researchers have developed a technique for using polymer - based nanoparticles to dissolve infectious bacteria's protective outer membranes so they can not morph into more dangerous forms

«We envision that these photo - responsive polymer - capped gold nanoparticles could one day serve as nano - carriers for drug delivery into the body using our robust and reversible process for assembly and disassembly,» said Zhiqun Lin, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering.