Molecular Insights into Carbon Supercapacitors Based on Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids

Molecular insights into RTIL-based supercapacitors, reviewed in this Perspective, could facilitate the design and development of a new generation of energy storage devices....

Spatial Control of Gene Expression by Nanocarriers

Spatial Control of Gene Expression by Nanocarriers Using Heparin Masking and Ultrasound-Targeted Microbubble Destruction First author Beata Chertok describes the fundamentals of gene therapy, and the...

Graphene Interfaced with Biological Cells: Opportunities and Challenges

In this video, Phong Nguyen and Vikas Berry from Kansas State University discuss Graphene Interfaced with Biological Cells: Opportunities and Challenges ...

Polymeric Nanovehicle Regulated Spatiotemporal Real-Time Imaging

Polymeric Nanovehicle Regulated Spatiotemporal Real-Time Imaging - Recent advances in neural stem cell (NSC) transplantation have led to an inspiring progress in alleviating central nervous system (CN...

Graphene Interfaced with Biological Cells: Opportunities and Challenges

Graphene Interfaced with Biological Cells: Opportunities and Challenges. Phong Nguyen and Vikas Berry from Kansas State University discuss their Perspective published in issue 8 of the Journal of Phys...

Celecoxib Nanoparticles for Therapeutic Angiogenesis

Celecoxib Nanoparticles for Therapeutic Angiogenesis - Controllable induction of blood vessel formation (angiogenesis) presents an important therapeutic goal in ischemic diseases and is also beneficia...

The Use of Synergistic Interactions to Fabricate Strong

The Use of Synergistic Interactions to Fabricate Strong - Graphene is the strongest and stiffest material, leading to the development of promising applications in many fields. However, the assembly of...

Slippery Wenzel State

Slippery Wenzel State - Authors Tak-Sing Wong and Xianming Dai describe how they drew inspiration from nature to develop a new water-repellent material known as "slippery wet surface," which...

Detecting and Number Counting of Single Engineered Nanoparticles

Detecting and Number Counting of Single Engineered Nanoparticles - Author Daniela Paunescu describes the novel method they created for indirectly counting nanoparticles, which is sensitive enough to c...

Three Minute Thesis (3MT) 2011 Winner - Matthew Thompson

"Suspects, Science and CSI" by Matthew Thompson from the University of Queensland...

Seeding Bimetallic Nanostructures as a New Class of Plasmonic Colloids

Seeding Bimetallic Nanostructures as a New Class of Plasmonic Colloids. Recent advances in the synthesis and application of Au--Ag and Au--Pd nanostructures are discussed. The highlighted nanostructur...

Post-Translational Modification of Bionanoparticles as a Modular Platform for Biosensor Assembly

Post-Translational Modification of Bionanoparticles as a Modular Platform for Biosensor Assembly - Author Qing Sun describes the benefits of bionanoparticles and the various ways in which the research...

3 minute thesis 2013: Emilia Savage

Biased allosteric modulation of regulatory proteins at the GLP-1 receptor Research Theme: Drug Discovery Biology Emilia Savage is a third year PhD student working under Professor Patrick Sexton. She ...

Anomalously Fast Diffusion of Targeted Carbon Nanotubes in Cellular Spheroids

Anomalously Fast Diffusion of Targeted Carbon Nanotubes in Cellular Spheroids - Author Yichun Wang describes carbon nanotubes and details the researchers' observations of how the nanotubes transport i...

Porphyrin-Based Supramolecular Nanoarchitectures for Solar Energy Conversion

Porphyrin-Based Supramolecular Nanoarchitectures for Solar Energy Conversion. By Taku Hasobe, Department of Chemistry, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, discusses his Perspective published in issue 11...

Computational Insights into Dynamics of Protein Aggregation and Enzyme--Substrate Interactions

Computational Insights into Dynamics of Protein Aggregation and Enzyme--Substrate Interactions with Mehmet Ozbil, Arghya Barman, Ram Prasad Bora, and Rajeev Prabhakar from the University of Miami....

2013 University of Otago 3 Minute Thesis Competition

2013 University of Otago 3 Minute Thesis Competition - 0:07:10 Shobhit Eusebius (Marketing) -- 'Unravelling Social Media: Creating better Brands' 0:13:20 Jessica Leov (Psychological Medicine) 0:18:...

Two-Photon Absorption in Organometallic Bromide Perovskites

Two-Photon Absorption in Organometallic Bromide Perovskites - Organometallic trihalide perovskites are solution processed semiconductors that have made great strides in third generation thin film ligh...

Graphene-Based Chemical Sensors

Graphene-Based Chemical Sensors. In this video, Fazel Yavari and Nikhil Koratkar from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute discuss their Perspective published in issue 13 of the Journal of Physical Chemis...

Structure vs. Function: How Similar Proteins Can Do Different Chemistries - Adriana Bon Ramos

Adriana Bon Ramos - Chemistry - Portland State University - Structure vs. Function: How Similar Proteins Can Do Different Chemistries...