News tagged with hollow gold
Targeted nanospheres find, penetrate, then fuel burning of melanoma
Hollow gold nanospheres equipped with a targeting peptide find melanoma cells, penetrate them deeply, and then cook the tumor when bathed with near-infrared light, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas ...
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Monitoring the transformation of silver nanowires into gold nanotubes with in situ transmission X-ray microscopy
(PhysOrg.com) -- A technique for real-time monitoring of the galvanic replacement reaction between silver nanowires and aqueous gold salt solutions using in situ flow-cell transmission X-ray microscopy (TXM) ...
Dec 21, 2011 |
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Part I: The energy that drives the stars comes closer to Earth
Nuclear fusion drives the stars, including our sun. But on Earth, despite efforts dating to the 1940s, sustained and controlled fusion for electrical power production has never been realized. Research persists, ...
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Why carbon nanotubes spell trouble for cells
It's been long known that asbestos spells trouble for human cells. Scientists have seen cells stabbed with spiky, long asbestos fibers, and the image is gory: Part of the fiber is protruding from the cell, ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 18, 2011 |
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What a ride! Researchers take molecules for a spin (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Kolomeisky and Rice graduate student Alexey Akimov have taken a large step toward defining the behavior of these molecular whirligigs with a new paper in the American Chemical Society's Journal of Physical ...
Feb 01, 2011 |
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Organic solvent system may improve catalyst recycling and create new nanomedicine uses
Noble metals such as platinum and palladium are becoming increasingly important because of growth in environmentally friendly applications such as fuel cells and pollution control catalysts. But the world ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 28, 2010 |
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Engineered collision spills new Moon secrets (w/ Video)
Scientists led by Brown University are offering the first detailed explanation of the crater formed when a NASA rocket slammed into the Moon last fall and information about the composition of the lunar soil ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 21, 2010 |
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Chemists design 'tunable,' cloaked, toxin delivery system to kill tumors from within
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers led by University of Massachusetts Amherst chemist Vincent Rotello have demonstrated that they can deliver a dormant toxin into a specific site such as a tumor for anti-cancer ...
Oct 04, 2010 |
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Advance toward earlier detection of melanoma
Scientists are reporting development of a substance to enhance the visibility of skin cancer cells during scans with an advanced medical imaging system that combines ultrasound and light. The hybrid scanner ...
Aug 11, 2010 |
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Seeing melanoma (w/ Video)
Melanoma is one of the less common types of skin cancer but it accounts for the majority of the skin cancer deaths (about 75 percent).
Aug 11, 2010 |
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Engineers turn a drawback - the stickiness of gold nanoparticles - into an advantage
(PhysOrg.com) -- Gold nanoparticles -- tiny spheres of gold just a few billionths of a meter in diameter -- have become useful tools in modern medicine. They've been incorporated into miniature drug-delivery ...
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Jun 11, 2010 |
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