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Tag Archives: nanoparticles
It had to happen: a medical “nano cocktail”
Sooner or later it would occur to medical nanotechnology researchers that combining various nanoparticles – and loading them with targeted drugs – might be more effective than administering them one by one. Of course, in the new tradition of packaging medical combinations in a marketable phrase, this is a “nano cocktail.”
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Prevent oxidation with nanoparticles derived from corn
News about nanotechnology is reported almost every day. Nanotechnology in agriculture, not so much. Nanotechnology made from agricultural products, we hear about that even less. So this story concerning research done at Purdue University (Indiana, USA), which uses nanoparticles manufactured from corn to extend the shelf life of certain oils demonstrates the radiation of nanotech [...]
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New rocket fuel: aluminum ice
ALICE to the stars! Could be a catchy title. It’s an acronym: ALuminum ICE, a new kind of rocket fuel. There are lots of ways to drive a rocket. Few of them are ecologically friendly. This one may be. Better still, aluminum nanoparticles and water (hydrogen and oxygen) for rocket fuel are potentially available for [...]
Nanoparticles for cancer drug delivery
You’re going to see many stories of drug delivery methods using nanotechnology. Some methods are still quite theoretical; others have already reached the testing stage in animals. Note, however, that so far none have been given the green light for human testing, which says something about the nascent status of the nano-medical field. Much of [...]
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‘Natural’ self-assembly of nanoparticles
Somewhere along the line nanotechnologists have got it into their heads that nanoparticles ought to do self-assembly. Oh wait. They may have met a biologist. Living things do self assembly all the time, and much of it takes place at the molecular nanoscale. So why not nanotechnology? (Uh, life took millions of years to achieve [...]
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Meet the hot dot-Janus particle
One of the big research tracks for nanotechnology is the ability to control the alignment and shape of nanoparticles. Control is vital for nano-manufacturing (building something with nanoparticles) and also for many medical uses of nanotechnology. “Control” in this sense means the ability to move nanoparticles on command in any dimension with the ultimate control [...]
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Two new cancer-killing nanoparticles