Self-Assembling Gold Nanoparticles Use Light to Kill Tumor Cells

Self-Assembling Gold Nanoparticles Use Light to Kill Tumor Cells
(PhysOrg.com) — A variety of studies by numerous investigators are demonstrating that gold nanoparticles have real promise as anticancer agents. When irradiated with light, gold nanoparticles become hot quickly, hot enough to generate explosive microbubbles that will kill nearby cancer cells, a physical process known as the photothermal effect.

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Nanoporous Particles Deliver Novel Molecular Therapies to Tumors

Nanoporous Particles Deliver Novel Molecular Therapies to Tumors
(PhysOrg.com) — Using nanoporous silicon particles, two teams of investigators have created drug delivery vehicles capable of ferrying labile molecular therapies deep into the body. Both groups believe their new drug delivery vehicles create new opportunities for developing innovative anticancer therapies.

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Nanoscience: Colloidal and Interfacial Aspects

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The common perception is that nanoscience is something entirely new, that it sprung forth whole and fully formed like some mythological deity. But the truth is that like all things scientific, nanoscience is the natural result of the long evolution of scientific inquiry. Following a historical trail back to the middle of the 19th century, nanoscience is the inborn property of colloid and interface science. What’s important today is for us to recognize that nanoparticles are small colloidal objects. It should also be appreciated that over the past decades, a number of novel nanostructures have been developed, but whatever we call them, we cannot forget that their properties and behavior are still in the realm of colloid and interface science.

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However one views it, the interest and funding in nano-science is a tremendous opportunity to advance critical research in colloid chemistry. Nanoscience: Colloidal and Interfacial Aspects brings together a prominent roster of 42 leading investigators and their teams, who detail the wide range of theoretical and experimental knowledge that can be successfully applied for investigating nanosystems, many of which are actually well-known colloidal systems.

This international grouping of pioneering investigators from academia and industry use these pages to provide researchers of today and tomorrow with a full examination of nano-disperse colloids, homogeneous and heterogeneous nano-structured materials (and their properties), and shelf-organization at the nano-scale. This cutting-edge reference provides information on investigations into non-linear electrokinetic phenomena in nano-sized dispersions and nano-sized biological systems. It discusses application aspects of technological processes in great detail, providing scientists and engineers across all fields with authoritative commentary on colloid and interface science operating at the nanoscale.

Nano-Science: Colloidal and Interfacial Aspects provides an authoritative resource for those wanting to familiarize themselves with current progress as well as for those looking to make their own impact on the development of new technologies and practical applications in fields as diverse as medicine, materials, and environmental science to name but a few. Whether you call the technology nano or colloids, the field continues to be ripe with opportunity.

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Lab-on-Chips for Cellomics: Micro and Nanotechnologies for Life Science

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The convergence of life sciences and micro/nanotechnologies is one of the fastest growing modern R and D areas with an enormous potential societal impact. Microfluidics or Lab-on-Chip (LOC) devices, also dubbed BioMEMS, are a fascinating example of this combination of two scientific areas. This book, which is the first volume entirely dedicated to microfabricated cell-based systems, will provide readers with a quick introduction to the field as well as with a variety of specific examples of such Lab-on-Chip systems for cellomics applications. It will give investigators inspiration for innovative research topics, whereas end users will be surprised about the wide variety of new and exciting applications.

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Fabrication and Characterization of ZnO Nanowire Transistors: Vertically Aligned ZnO Nanowire Arrays, Multiple Channel Nanowire-based Transistors

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Recently, a variety of physical and chemical methods have been used to synthesize and obtain 1- dimensional semiconductor nanostructures. For the cause of easier nanostructure formation and device applications, we begin this study with the investigation in growth mechanism and well- controlled condition to synthesize 1-dimensional ZnO nanowires. For the low dimensional structure of nanowire, the manipulation of individual nanowire has become an unsettled and crucial issue. Therefore, we use a printing method to realize the nanowire alignment in broad classes. In addition, our investigators would explore the correlation between the quality of 1- dimensional material and electronic transport properties of ZnO nanowire-based transistors. In the fabrication of nanowire transistors, the existing common method of dielectrophoresis (DEP) process would impose a contact problem, and an additional or subsequent metallization is necessary for the electronic connection. Therefore, we will develop a novel method to simultaneously obtain aligned nanowire arrays and device pattering by combining DEP and imprinting processes.

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