Stretch-Triggered Drug Delivery from Wearable Elastomers Containing Therapeutic Depots

Stretch-Triggered Drug Delivery from Wearable Elastomers Containing Therapeutic Depots - Mechanical force-based stimulus provides a simple and easily accessible manner for spatiotemporally controlled ...

Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) | Duncan Parker

Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) | Duncan Parker - Complex reaction networks....

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Direct Cytosolic Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein for Efficient Gene Editing. CRISPR technology is a simple yet powerful tool for editing genomes. It allows researchers to easily alter DNA se...

Organ-Specific and Size-Dependent Ag Nanoparticle Toxicity in Gills

Organ-Specific and Size-Dependent Ag Nanoparticle Toxicity in Gills - We studied adult zebrafish to determine whether the size of 20 and 110 nm citrate-coated silver nanoparticles (AgC NPs) differenti...

Switching of a Carbon Nanotube Chiral Junction Imaged with Nanometer Spatial Resolution

Optoelectronic Switching of a Carbon Nanotube Chiral Junction Imaged with Nanometer Spatial Resolution Authors Martin Gruebele and Lea Nienhaus discuss their work optoelectronically tuning the metall...

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

Post-Translational Modification of Bionanoparticles as a Modular Platform for Biosensor Assembly - Context driven biosensor assembly with modular targeting and detection moieties is gaining significan...

Controlled Suppression of Wear on the Nanoscale by Ultrasonic Vibrations

Controlled Suppression of Wear on the Nanoscale by Ultrasonic Vibrations - Wear on the nanoscale, as evidenced by the formation of periodic ripples on a model polystyrene thin film while a sharp tip i...

Photoactivatable Synthetic Dyes for Fluorescence Imaging at the Nanoscale

Photoactivatable Synthetic Dyes for Fluorescence Imaging at the Nanoscale. Françisco M. Raymo from the University of Miami discusses his Perspective published in issue 17 of the Journal of Physical Ch...

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....

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...

Reduction of Acute Inflammatory Effects of Fumed Silica Nanoparticles

Reduction of Acute Inflammatory Effects of Fumed Silica Nanoparticles - Contrary to the notion that the use of fumed silica in consumer products can "generally (be) regarded as safe" (GRAS),...

Probing the Structure-Property Interplay of Plasmonic Nanoparticle Transducers...

Probing the Structure-Property Interplay of Plasmonic Nanoparticle Transducers by Kenneth L. Knappenberger , Jr., Anne-Marie Dowgiallo , Manabendra Chandra , and Jeremy W. Jarrett from the Department ...

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...

Three-Dimensional Nanoprinting via Scanning Probe Lithography-Delivered Layer-by-Layer Deposition

Three-Dimensional Nanoprinting via Scanning Probe Lithography-Delivered Layer-by-Layer Deposition. In this video, the authors demonstrate how they used scanning probe microscopy to miniaturize three-d...

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...

Formation Mechanism for Stable Hybrid Clusters of Proteins and Nanoparticles

Formation Mechanism for Stable Hybrid Clusters of Proteins and Nanoparticles - Citrate-stabilized gold nanoparticles (AuNP) agglomerate in the presence of hemoglobin (Hb) at acidic pH. The extent of a...

Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Oxides: The Emerging Scenario

Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Oxides: The Emerging Scenario, by C.N.R Rao, Athinarayanan Sundaresan, and Rana Saha from the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research ...

Exciton Energy and Charge Transfer in Porphyrin Aggregate/Semiconductor (TiO2) Composites

Exciton Energy and Charge Transfer in Porphyrin Aggregate/Semiconductor (TiO2) Composites. In this video, Sandeep Verma and Hirendra N. Ghosh from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai discuss the...

Detecting and Number Counting of Single Engineered Nanoparticles

Detecting and Number Counting of Single Engineered Nanoparticles - The concentrations of nanoparticles present in colloidal dispersions are usually measured and given in mass concentration (e.g. mg/mL...

Plasmon Resonances of Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Physical Principles and New Opportunities

Plasmon Resonances of Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Physical Principles and New Opportunities discussed by Prashant K. Jain, of University of Illinois Urbana−Champaign, Urbana,...