When designing a nanoparticle-enabled drug delivery system, many intersecting considerations must be taken into account, such as the target location of the drug payload, the method of delivery, uptake ...

A newly published Perspective article in Nature Nanotechnology details groundbreaking nanoparticle technology to eliminate ...

Scientists at NYU Abu Dhabi have developed an innovative use for nanotechnology in the field of cancer research. Their ...

One of the most popular and widely researched type of nanoparticles are gold nanoparticles. The term “gold nanoparticles” in Google Scholar throws up more than 500,000 hits. These gold nanoparticles ...

Antimicrobial nanoparticles are materials with exceptional antimicrobial properties, capable of controlling bacterial, viral, and fungal infections. Thanks to their unique physicochemical attributes, ...

Silica nanoparticles of between 1 – 100 nm in diameter are cost-effective and simple to produce, with a highly modifiable surface chemistry, shape, and size. They commonly act as a support scaffold or ...

Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) represents a cutting‐edge imaging modality that directly visualises the spatial distribution of superparamagnetic nanoparticles. By harnessing the non‐linear ...

A new protein nanoparticle modeling application that removes hidden transmembrane sequences has just been introduced by researchers at the University of Washington. Called the Degreaser, it can ...

Bimetallic nanoparticles are a class of nanomaterials composed of two distinct metal elements, which can be arranged in various structures such as core-shell, alloyed, or segregated architectures.

University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) scientists and collaborators published a study, “Intratumoral generation of photothermal gold nanoparticles through a vectorized biomineralization of ...

Melting point of nanoscale sodium particles differs to that of bulk sodium. A new way of probing nanometre-scale particles of ...

Although scientists have for decades been able to synthesize nanoparticles in the lab, the process is mostly trial and error, and how the formation actually takes place is obscure. However, a study ...