Expression-Enhanced Fluorescent Proteins Based on Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein
Expression-Enhanced Fluorescent Proteins Based on Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein - "Smart fluorophores", such as reversibly switchable fluorescent proteins (RSFPs), are crucial for advan...
A Nanoprinted Model of Interstitial Cancer Migration
A Nanoprinted Model of Interstitial Cancer Migration - Metastatic progression of tumours requires the coordinated dissemination of cancerous cells through interstitial tissues and their replication in...
Self-Assembly of Polymer Brush-Functionalized Inorganic Nanoparticles
In this video, Matthew G. Moffitt, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Victoria, discusses his Perspective published in issue 21 of the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters----how e...
Catalytic Growth of Graphene: Towards Large-Area Single-Crystalline Graphene
Catalytic Growth of Graphene: Towards Large-Area Single-Crystalline Graphene. In this video, Hiroki Ago, Yui Ogawa, Masaharu Tsuji, and Seigi Mizuno, from Kyushu University, and Hiroki Hibino, from NT...
Quantum Dot Solar Cells. The Next Big Thing in Photovoltaics
Quantum Dot Solar Cells. The Next Big Thing in Photovoltaics by Prashant V. Kamat, of the Radiation Laboratory and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame...
The Use of Synergistic Interactions to Fabricate Strong
The Use of Synergistic Interactions to Fabricate Strong, Tough, and Conductive Artificial Nacre Based on Graphene Oxide and Chitosan
Author Sijie Wan describes recent work on fabricating artificial n...
Nanomedicines Eradicating Cancer Stem-like Cells in Vivo
Nanomedicines Eradicating Cancer Stem-like Cells in Vivo - Nanomedicines capable of spatiotemporal control over drug functions have potential for developing resilient therapies, even against tumors ha...
The Photophysics of All-Trans Para-Distyrylbenzene
The Photophysics of All-Trans Para-Distyrylbenzene. The present Perspective critically re-examines the photophysics of para-distyrylbenzene (DSB) as a prototype of herringbone-arranged H-aggregates to...
Tailoring MoS2 Exciton–Plasmon Interaction by Optical Spin–Orbit Coupling
Tailoring MoS2 Exciton–Plasmon Interaction by Optical Spin–Orbit Coupling.
In this video, the Nanosmart Team from Peking University describe MoS2 photoluminescence modification via optical spin-orbit...
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...
Switching of a Carbon Nanotube Chiral Junction Imaged with Nanometer Spatial Resolution
Switching of a Carbon Nanotube Chiral Junction Imaged with Nanometer Spatial Resolution. Chiral junctions of carbon nanotubes have the potential of serving as optically or electrically controllable sw...
Ashlee Tietje, a PhD student in biological sciences at Clemson University, describes her research as part of the 3-Minute Thesis competition at Clemson. The title of her presentation is "MULT1E/m...
Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Oxides: The Emerging Scenario
Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Oxides: The Emerging Scenario. In this video, C.N.R Rao, Athinarayanan Sundaresan, and Rana Saha from the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research disc...
Craig Hawker and Daniel Burke at the University of California Santa Barbara describe their paper "The power of thiol-ene chemistry", published in the Journal of Polymer Science: Part A, Poly...
Three Minute Thesis Ontario 2013 Winner - Jasdeep Saggar (University of Toronto)
Winner, Jasdeep Saggar (University of Toronto, Medical Biophysics student), presents her research "Hypoxia-activated pro-drugs: A novel approach for breast cancer treatment"...
Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity Effect. In this video, Ron Naaman, from the Weizmann Institute, and David Waldeck, from the University of Pittsburgh, discuss their Perspective published in issue 16 of...
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...