Not exact matches
To ensure safety, additives to electrolytes, such as
nanodiamonds, need to be combined
with other precautions, such as using non-flammable electrolytes, safer electrode materials and stronger separators.»
To study
nanodiamonds» usefulness for cancer treatment, Ho's group attached them to doxorubicin, a standard chemotherapy drug, and injected them into mice
with drug - resistant breast and liver cancer.
Since RNA is hydrophilic, or «likes water,» the molecules on the
nanodiamond surface swell
with excess hydration and weaken the heterogeneous dynamics of the molecules.
By comparing the SNS neutron scattering data
with the data from the team's molecular dynamics simulations on Titan, the researchers have confirmed that
nanodiamonds enhance the dynamics of tRNA when in the presence of water.
«You can fine - tune these dynamics
with chemical functionalization on the
nanodiamond surface, further enhancing its effectiveness,» said Goswami.
Researchers have demonstrated how to control the «electron spin» of a
nanodiamond while it is levitated
with lasers in a vacuum, an advance that could find applications in quantum information processing, sensors and studies into the fundamental physics of quantum mechanics.
This high levels of hyperpolarization, together
with the long nuclear - spin polarization lifetimes in
nanodiamonds and the relatively high density of 13C nuclei, turn functionalized and hyperpolarized
nanodiamonds into attractive MRI probes for molecular imaging both in vitro and in vivo.
Together
with adiabatic rotations of the external magnetic fields or rotations of the
nanodiamonds leads to over 10,000-fold enhancement in the 13C polarization.
One of the challenges is the random orientation of
nanodiamonds in a solution which makes it difficult to achieve resonance
with microwaves.
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