Sentences with phrase «using nanoparticle technology»

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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.

ZOTEN nanoparticles were synthesized using technology developed by material scientists at Germany's Kiel University and protected under a joint patent with UIC.

Wang's technology uses nanoparticles that are shaped to fit like a lock - and - key to either THC or to reagents attached to a surface.

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.

«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.

To help get their technology into drug companies» hands more quickly, DeSimone and his colleagues have built a device that make different - shaped nanoparticles in bulk using molds that pop out these particles like so many ice cubes.

«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.»

The technique, described in Biomaterials, uses gold nanoparticles and Raman scattering, a technology previously developed by Qian and Nie for cancer cell detection (2007 Nature Biotech paper, 2011 Cancer Research paper on circulating tumor cells).

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.

«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.

The Bulte Lab has developed methods to label cells magnetically using tiny superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles in order to make them visible by magnetic resonance imaging; this technology has now been introduced in the clinic for several cell therapy applications.

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.

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

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 nanoparticle vaccine technology used in the study has been licensed by Parvus Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company arising from the University Technology International LP, the technology transfer and commercialization center for the University otechnology used in the study has been licensed by Parvus Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company arising from the University Technology International LP, the technology transfer and commercialization center for the University oTechnology International LP, the technology transfer and commercialization center for the University otechnology transfer and commercialization center for the University of Calgary.

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

Researchers at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) think they've come up with a novel way to do just that by using silicon nanoparticles that swell to increase the amount of lithium ions that can be stored, resulting in a lithium - ion battery system that can store seven times more energy and be discharged and recharged five times as many times as the current technology.

This scaled up test bed of NEWT's direct solar desalination technology uses carbon black nanoparticles that convert as much as 80 percent of sunlight energy into heat.