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Researchers at Israel's Technion Institute of Technology are experimenting with a nanoparticle «barcode» system in order to trace the efficacy of cancer drugs.

For this study, Yanik's team developed a new technology to inject RNA carried by nanoparticles called lipidoids, previously designed by Daniel Anderson, an associate professor of chemical engineering, member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and an author of the new paper.

So Daniel Anderson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology exposed human bone marrow stem cells to biodegradable nanoparticles carrying the human gene for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which attracts blood vessels to injury sites.

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Tampere University of Technology (TUT) have developed a comparison technique which has detected marked differences between the nanoparticle - capturing performance of air filters.

«Despite huge efforts in the field of nanomedicine, fewer nanoparticle technologies than expected have made it to clinical trials.

Dr. McCabe said nanoparticles are a leading - edge technology also being studied for delivery of drugs for other conditions, such as cancer, heart disease, and bacterial infections, in order to target specific cells to reduce toxicity and side effects of those medications and to make them more effective.

The result, to appear in an upcoming issue of Environmental Science & Technology, sets a baseline, he says, against which researchers can compare the effects of other nanoparticles.

Qing Li, a former postdoctoral fellow in Sun's lab and now a professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China, thought a catalyst that combines copper nanoparticles with graphene might be effective.

To create a new dengue virus vaccine, Stefan Metz, Shaomin Tian in the laboratories of Aravinda de Silva, Chris Luft and Joe DeSimone at the University of Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA designed nanoparticles of various shapes and sizes using Particle Replication in Non-wetting Template (PRINT) technology.

Wilson, the sporting goods manufacturer, has nanoengineered layers of clay to double the playing life of its Double Core tennis balls; L'Oréal uses nanoscale particles and capsules in their cosmetic creams that allow replenishing ingredients to penetrate deep into the skin; and the Australian company Advanced Powder Technology has created Zinclear, a translucent zinc oxide sunblock composed of nanoparticles as small as the tiniest known viruses.

The study, involving researchers from UCL, Imperial College London and Dalian University of Technology (China) and published today in Science, shows how the new paint made from coated titanium dioxide nanoparticles can give a wide - range of materials self - cleaning properties, even during and after immersion in oil and following damage to the surface.

By taking clever advantage of the interplay between light, electrons on the surface of metals, and heat, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have for the first time created a plasmomechanical oscillator (PMO), so named because it tightly couples plasmons — the collective oscillations of electrons at the surface of a metal nanoparticle — to the mechanical vibrations of the much larger device it's embedded in.

With the current version of the technology, patients would first receive an injection of the nanoparticles, then urinate onto the paper test strip.

The technology, developed by MIT professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Sangeeta Bhatia, relies on nanoparticles that interact with tumor proteins called proteases, each of which can trigger release of hundreds of biomarkers that are then easily detectable in a patient's urine.

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.

An intensive collaboration between University of Helsinki, Finland, and Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, showed that in some condition iron nanoparticles can grow in cubic shape.

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.

Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Materials Science and Technology Division have developed a novel one - step process using, for the first time in these types of syntheses, potassium superoxide (KO2) to rapidly form oxide nanoparticles from simple salt solutions in water.

Anikeeva, who is now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, decided to see if she could use magnetic nanoparticles to go deeper.

However, chemical engineers at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), in Mexico, developed a new technology based on thermosensitive nanoparticles (nano - hydrogels) to use these materials in the field of biomedicine, as an alternative to achieve controlled release of anticancer drugs.

Now scientists report in ACS» journal Environmental Science & Technology that silver nanoparticles and coatings do wash off of commercially available garments in the laundry but at negligible levels.

«We have developed a general strategy for making a large variety of nanoparticles in different size ranges, compositions and architectures,» said Zhiqun Lin, an associate professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

The Nano MRI Lamp technology consists of two magnetic materials: A quencher (magnetic nanoparticle) and an enhancer (MRI contrast agent).

«Due to advanced technology used at U.S. - based coal burning power plants, mandated by the Clean Air Act and the Environmental Protection Agency, most of these nanoparticles and other tiny particles are removed before the final emission of the plant's exhaust gases,» Hochella said.

A key to the advances, which have been published in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research, is use of both a «continuous flow» chemical reactor, and microwave heating technology that's conceptually similar to the ovens that are part of almost every modern kitchen.

«This work shows that nanoparticle crystals of extraordinary complexity are possible with DNA technology, once one begins to exploit particle shape,» said Sharon C. Glotzer, the John W. Cahn Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and the Stuart W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering at U-M.

«The potential therapeutic value of this finding is important because we could deliver MIR506 directly to pancreatic cancer cells using technologies like nanoparticles and exosomes,» Zhang said.

«Furthermore, the use of particles to create these microswimmers will synergize well with other micro - and nanoparticle based technologies such as nanoparticle drug delivery systems.»

However, a new technology company from Poland is trying something different, patenting and commercializing a guided assembly of nanoparticles for creating (or, to put it simply, printing) conductive lines with a width of as little as 100 nanometers (nm).

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.

Other uses of new chemical technologies include tracers and reporters for geomapping and well connectivity, as well as different types of fluid loss agents that prevent formation damage or keep well integrity, and smart and stimuli - responsive nanoparticles that can be used for improving gelation.

Nanoparticle Size Measurement According to Vince Hackley, research chemist and project leader in the Materials Measurement Science Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, ASTM E2859 provides guidelines for sample preparation, measurement and analysis of results related to the use of atomic force microscopy, or AFM.

As advances in technology allow for smaller and smaller nanoparticles, it is critical for engineers to know the precise number and location of these defects to assure quality and functionality.

Her clinical - minded approach to laboratory research has recently led her to join forces with immunologists at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bombay on a project that will explore how the immune system reacts to nanoparticle drug delivery... -LSB-...]

«We used gold nanoparticles as the core of our nanocomplex,» explains team member Zhe Wang of the School of Life Sciences and Technology at Xidian University and the National Institutes of Health.

To improve the therapeutic window of STING agonist, iTeos selected Cristal Therapeutics nanoparticle technology to control the delivery towards the tumor microenvironment.

«Silver Nanoparticles Without Metal» has been announced as one of seven finalist technologies in the graduate student section of the 2013 Collegiate Inventors Competition (CIC).

«Carbon metabolism drives «living» metal catalysts that frequently move around, split, or merge, resulting in a nanoparticle size distribution that's far from the ordinary, and highly tunable,» says Ju Li, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a corresponding author of the paper.

BENANOVA's EbNPs is the only technology that combines (1) a biodegradable design with (2) efficiency higher than the one of antimicrobial silver nanoparticles to meet the requirements of safe and sustainable nanotechnology.

CeO2 Nanoparticles Dispersion Nanomaterials are being applied across a wide range of high - tech industries and advanced technologies due to their excellent optical, magnetic, catalytic and electronic properties.

Nanobarcode: SurroMed's Nanobarcode ™ technology uses cylindrically - shaped colloidal metal nanoparticles, in which the metal composition can be alternated along the length and the size of each metal segment can be controlled.

He decided to branch into other fields in his quest to better engineer cancer - destroying T cells and joined the lab of nanoparticle expert Dr. Darrell Irvine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The technology for binding of DNA fragments onto the applied magnetic nanoparticle surface does not require use of any hazardous chaotropic buffers.

But scientists from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology are urging caution, with a new study suggesting that exposure to silicon - based nanoparticles may play a role in the development of cardiovascular disease.

Using a new class of nanoparticles developed by Dr. Han, Dr. Xiang and colleagues propose to selectively turn on non-image forming photoreceptors (NIFP) inside mice and Drosophila unencumbered by the fiber optic wires used in currently available optogenetic technologies.

«The results suggest that nanoparticle delivery technology overcomes these challenges and might allow for the development of novel, cost - effective mRNA therapeutics.»

The Theory Prize was given for research into diamond nanoparticles; the Experimental Prize was given for development of scanning tunneling microscope (STM) technology.

If it's true that good things come in small packages, then the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can now make anyone working with nanoparticles very happy.

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