Myocardial fibrosis is a common outcome of adverse cardiac events, such as myocardial infarction, that further accelerates the development of devastating complications, including heart failure. …
Two-dimensional (2D) materials are a large class of atomically thin, sheet-like solids, whose chemical stability is a critical issue for commercial devices and nanomaterial driven …
In this thesis, we studied the dynamic toughening mechanisms of a hierarchically nanostructured copolymer, polyurea. We first quantitively measured the dynamic fracture toughness as well …
The thermal decomposition of metal carboxylates in nonpolar organic solvents is a widely applied method for the synthesis of uniform metal, metal oxide, and composite …
The thermal exfoliation of graphite oxide (GO) is an efficient and easily scalable method in the production of graphene and graphene oxide-based materials. The theoretical …
In the past two decades, the synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) has been intensively explored for both fundamental scientific research and industrial applications. Different from …
"Smart'' hydrogels are 3D networks of crosslinked hydrophilic polymers that can dramatically and dynamically change in response to triggered stimuli such as temperature, pH, and …
MnO2 nanosheets are a 2D nanomaterial being researched to improve the performance of existing products that use bulk MnO2 and to enable new technologies. With …
The rational synthesis and tuning of nanoparticles (NPs) and nanocomposites plays pivotal role in broad applications of nanomaterials in various fields. The organic solution based …
The brain is a highly-privileged organ within the body. Evolution has ensured that access to brain tissue is tightly regulated against or completely impenetrable to …
The capture of nanomagnetites at very low fields ( <0.1 Tesla) has always been the bottleneck in magnetic separation processes. In this work, the recovery …
The widespread use of nanomaterials in established and emerging technologies will inevitably lead to human and environmental exposures that must be characterized and managed to …
As the number of atoms in a cluster system increases, the number of local minima on the Born-Oppenheimer potential energy surface is expected to increase …
Abstract of "Biological Application of Magnetic Nanoparticles in Targeted Therapeutics and Diagnostics" by Aruna Sigdel, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2014 Theranostics, the combination of diagnosis …
Particulate zinc oxide (ZnO) is a well-known antibacterial agent. Studies have shown that reducing the size of ZnO particles to nanoscale dimensions further enhances their …
In order to explore the interactions of technological interfaces with the electrical properties of cells, two independent studies evaluate membrane conductivity in the presence of …
Nowadays, based on nanotechnology, bio-inspired self-assembled nanomaterials emerged as a type of charming biomaterials for bone and cartilage repair. For example, rosette nanotubes (RNTs) are …
Today bone defects such as bone fractures, osteoporosis or bone cancers represent a common and significant clinical problem. However, traditional micron size implant materials have …