An inhaled vaccine using a sugar-based carrier activated lung immune cells and prevented tumor growth in mice, offering a promising approach for long-term protection against lung cancer.
Category: Nanotech
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Inhaled cancer vaccine trains immune cells to protect the lungs
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Chiralization of metal-containing dyes upon mere encapsulation
Water-assembled capsules act as sophisticated nanotools, inducing and tuning chirality in metal dyes without chemical changes, with precise thermal control and adaptability.
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A hybrid approach for analyzing and designing graphene sheet-based materials
Graphene sheets with 5- or 7-membered rings form cone or saddle shapes, affecting curvature and rigidity. A new method helps study their complex mechanics.
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Mass spectrometry-based top-down proteomics for proteoform profiling of protein coronas
Monopoli, M. P., Aberg, C., Salvati, A. & Dawson, K. A. Biomolecular coronas provide the biological identity of nanosized materials. Nat. Nanotechnol. 7, 779–786 (2012).
Mahmoudi, M., Landry,…
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Investigating the electronic structure and adsorption of OCN− and CN− on Si12C12 Fullerene-like cages using DFT and MD simulations
Adsorption mechanism and spectroscopic analysis
The study employed the B3LYP method to determine the relaxed geometries of Si12C12 with Th symmetry and OCN− with C ∞ v symmetry. The Si12C12 adsorbent comprises eight hexagonal and six…
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Deep-learning-enabled online mass spectrometry of the reaction product of a single catalyst nanoparticle
The reaction of CO with O2 over Pd catalysts forming CO2 is one of the most studied reactions in catalysis, both due to its practical relevance and due to its role in studies of structure-function correlations and (surface) oxide formation45,46….
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Effect of nanoparticle density on the kinetics of SPP-assisted plasmonic assembly
In our previous study16we successfully achieved SPP-assisted dynamic and reversible assembly of chi-AuNFs with a positive surface charge and an average size of 125 nm. In contrast, the NPs with negative surface charge and sizes lower than 50 nm…
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Room-temperature ethylene glycol sensor based on cuprous oxide/MXene films
Characterization of the sensing films
The successful synthesis of Ti3C2, along with its negative zeta potential and X-ray diffraction (XRD) results, were thoroughly investigated and reported in our previous study30.
Surface functional groups on…
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First real-time observation of two-dimensional melting process
Researchers observed 2D melting in real time by tracking skyrmions, revealing how ordered magnetic lattices become disordered at the microscopic level.
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Wafer-scale 2D InSe semiconductors achieved with new growth strategy
Researchers used a solid-liquid-solid method to fabricate wafer-scale 2D InSe, solving key challenges in next-gen semiconductor manufacturing.
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