Simulated digestion: nanomaterials improve drug absorption

Functional lipid-based microparticles can be used to mimic the pharmaceutical food effect and enhance drug absorption by controlling the enzymatic digestion of lipid colloids.

Materials which can improve drug absorption in the body have been developed using silicon dioxide nanoparticles.

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Designing Nanomaterials for Drug Delivery

Confocal laser scanning microscopy images of the protein-based nanoparticles incubated with breast cancer cells.

Researchers for the University of California, Irvine, have developed a new drug-delivery system using protein-based nanoparticles.

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2D On-Chip Magnetic Actuation

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A group from FZ Juelich have investigated methods for controlling magnetic particle clouds on microwire crossbar chips.

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Onion Skin Structures in Poly(ionic liquid) Nanoparticles

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Researchers from the MPI of Colloids and Interfaces in Golm present exciting cryo-TEM data revealing interesting mechanistic features of crosslinked poly(ionic liquid) nanoparticles.

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Lubricating with Nanometer-Sized Silver

Molecularly-Engineered Lubricants

Researchers have utilized silver complexes as lubricating oil additives to engineer an efficient and cost-effective lubricant.

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How to solubilize hydrophobic dendrimers

The researchers developed a new method to produce hydrophobic dendrimers using specific surfactant molecules.

How surfactants bearing an aromatic structure at the hydrophobic terminal solubilizes hydrophobic pi-conjugating dendrimers.

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Energy in Pictures – 2012/1

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Energy research in pictures: Advanced Energy Materials covers from January 2012.

Doctors in the Bloodstream: Using Polymers to Diagnose and Treat Disease

Using polymers to treat disease

Researchers at the Wooley Laboratory have used polymers to mimic the characteristics and actions of biological nanoparticles and structures.

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Producing Nanomaterials via Laser Ablation

A plume is ejected from an SrRuO3 target as it is irradiated with a laser as part of the ablation process.

Professor Weiping Cai and co-workers have investigated the laser ablation/irradiation in liquid technique for producing nanomaterials.

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A better way of finding nanoclusters in STEM data

(From article) Structures and simulated STEM images for a 309-atom cluster: From left to right we have an ino-decahadron, a modeled STEM image of the same structure, followed by an Icosahedron also with its resepctive modeled STEM image.

Researchers develop near-atomic resolution in STEM using spherical aberration correction.

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