Cobalt Cardiomyopathy Secondary to Hip Arthroplasty: An Increasingly Prevalent Problem by Russel Tilney, Melanie Roberta Burg, Mark Adrian Sammut

“…Cobalt exists as a bivalent and trivalent molecule in circulation and produces a cytotoxicity profile similar to nanoparticles, causing neurological, thyroid, and cardiological pathology. …”
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Synthesis and Optical Enhancement of Amorphous Carbon Nanotubes/Silver Nanohybrids via Chemical Route at Low Temperature by Tan Kim Han, Leo Bey Fen, Ng Meng Nee, Mohd Rafie Johan

“…X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern confirmed the amorphous phase of carbon and the formation of Ag nanoparticles crystalline phase. Raman spectra revealed the amorphous nature of αCNTs. …”
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Melittin: A Natural Component of Honeybee Venom as a Potential Anti-Cancer Therapy by Niamh Donnellan, Anne M Friel

“…Optimisation techniques for melittin have been developed including the use of gene therapy, co-delivery and nanoparticles. Melittin’s biological functions, the potential methods of delivery and current trends in melittin development for therapy are presented and discussed in this review.…”
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Ratio Imaging of Enzyme Activity Using Dual Wavelength Optical Reporters by Moritz F. Kircher, Lee Josephson, Ralph Weissleder

“…One probe consists of the NIRF dye Cy5.5 attached to a particulate carrier, a crosslinked iron oxide nanoparticle (CLIO), through cathepsin B cleavable l -arginyl peptides. …”
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The study of morphology and electrochemical properties of nanocomposite based electrode consisting of multi-walled carbon nanotubes and Sn/SnOx metal oxide particles by P. M. Korusenko

“…The stable characteristics of such a material are due to the high interfacial adhesion between functionalized MWCNTs and Sn/ SnOx nanoparticles, as well as their unique gradient structure. …”
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In Vivo Optical Imaging of Neurogenesis: Watching New Neurons in the Intact Brain by Sebastien Couillard-Despres, Rudolf Finkl, Beate Winner, Sonja Ploetz, Dirk Wiedermann, Robert Aigner, Ulrich Bogdahn, Juergen Winkler, Mathias Hoehn, Ludwig Aigner

“…The present imaging approach offers several crucial advantages over methods currently available, such as bromodeoxyuridine incorporation or labeling using iron oxide nanoparticles. Hence, it allows longitudinal study of neurogenesis in intact animals without the requirement of cellular prelabeling. …”
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Transmission Electron Microscopy Studies of Cellular Responses to Entry of Virions: One Kind of Natural Nanobiomaterial by Zheng Liu, Shuyu Liu, Jinming Cui, Yurong Tan, Jian He, Jingqiang Zhang

“…The infection is an intrinsic property of the virions, and the biological process provides a good model for studying how these nanoparticles enter into cells. During the infection, the viruses employ different strategies to which the cells have developed respective responses. …”
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Food Antimicrobials Nanocarriers by Adriana Blanco-Padilla, Karen M. Soto, Montserrat Hernández Iturriaga, Sandra Mendoza

“…This paper reviews the present state of the art of the nanostructures used as food antimicrobial carriers including nanoemulsions, nanoliposomes, nanoparticles, and nanofibers.…”
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Towards a Quantitative Description of Proteolysis: Contribution of Demasking and Hydrolysis Steps to Proteolysis Kinetics of Milk Proteins by Mikhail M. Vorob’ev

“…Proteolysis of a nanosized substrate is considered for the example of tryptic hydrolysis of β-CN micelles, leading to the formation and degradation of new nanoparticles and non-monotonic changes in the secondary protein structures during proteolysis.…”
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Morphological Evolvement of Carbon Nanotubes Synthesized by Using Conducting Polymer Nanofibers by Yang Liu, John H. Xin, Xinyu Zhang, Chao Zhang

“…A new growth mode of the “liquifying cascade growth” was observed for the as-synthesized carbon nanotubes, as their growth was directed by a series of liquified iron nanoparticles with sequentially decreasing sizes, similar to the cascade of liquid droplets. …”
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Multicomponent Nanocomposites for Complex Anticancer Therapy: Effect of Aggregation Processes on Their Efficacy by Nataliya Kutsevol, Yuliia Kuziv, Tetiana Bezugla, Vasyl Chumachenko, Vasyl Chekhun

“…The three-component nanocomposites with incorporated gold nanoparticles and photosensitizer and the four-component ones additionally loaded by Doxorubicin into polymer nanoplatform were studied at 25 and 37°C by transmission electron microscopy and dynamic light scattering. …”
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Rapid and Selective Determination of Folate Receptor α with Sensitive Resonance Rayleigh Scattering Signal by Liping Wu, Yue Liu, Rong Huang, Huawen Zhao, Weiqun Shu

“…A rapid, simple, and novel method for folate receptor α (FRα) determination is reported here. A probe of gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) modified with anti-FRα antibody was synthesized under the optimized conditions first. …”
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Synthesis and Electrochemical Capacitor Characterization of Novel Composite Materials with p-Type Conductive Polymer by Narges Ajami

“…In this research, nanoparticles of MnO2 are used after synthesis to prepare polymer nanocomposites in one-step. …”
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Evaluating the efficiency of environmentally friendly magnetic photocatalyst for the treatment of industrial effluents containing dye pollutants by Sedigheh Abbasi

“…For this purpose, titania semiconductor is synthesized as photocatalytic nanoparticles by hydrolysis method on the surface of graphene oxide. …”
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Significance of Marangoni convection in ethylene glycol base hybrid nanofluid flow with viscous dissipation through a porous medium by Ali Rehman, Ilyas Khan, Sultan Alshehery, Muhammad Sabaoon Khan

“…The effects of various parameters, including nanoparticle volume fraction, porosity parameter, Marangoni convection, and Eckert number, on energy and momentum profiles are analyzed, with the results illustrated using graphs. …”
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Optimization of Water Absorption and Mechanical and Thermal Behavior of Polylactic Acid/Chitosan/Titanium Carbide by S. Krishnamohan, Harishchander Anandaram, V. Rathinam, S. Kaliappan, S. Sekar, Pravin P Patil, Asheesh Kumar, Venkatesan Govindaraajan

“…The impacts of TiC NPs on PLA/CS properties are studied using FTIR and XRD and thermal (TGA) and mechanical investigations. Titanium carbide nanoparticles in the polylactic acid/chitosan matrix increase the mechanical characteristics of the materials. …”
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Recent advances in organic fluorophores as anti-counterfeit agents: an up-to-date review by N Akshaya, Annette Thomas, Glanish Jude Martis, Santosh L. Gaonkar

“…Fluorescent molecules such as stimuli-responsive molecules, aggregation induced emission (AIE) luminogens such as tetraphenylethylene (TPE), heterocyclic complexes and photochromic-infused nanoparticles have been used to develop efficient security inks with maximum security and quick authentication. …”
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A mathematical model of mechanotransduction by Bradley J. Roth

“…Potential applications are discussed, such as predicting growth and remodeling in the diseased heart, analyzing stretch-induced arrhythmias, modeling shear forces in a vessel caused by blood flow, examining the role of mechanical forces in engineered sheets of tissue, studying differentiation in colonies of stem cells, and characterizing the response to localized forces applied to nanoparticles.…”
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Preparation and Thermal Properties of Eutectic Hydrate Salt Phase Change Thermal Energy Storage Material by Lin Liang, Xi Chen

“…Results show that the use of nucleating agents, such as sodium tetraborate, sodium fluoride, and nanoparticles, are effective. The solidification temperature and latent heat of these materials which was added with 0, 3, and 5 wt% thickeners were −11.9, −10.6, and −14.8°C and 127.2, 118.6, 82.56 J/g, respectively. …”
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Analysis of the spatial distribution of metabolites in Aloe vera leaves by mass spectrometry imaging and UHPLC-UHRMS by Sumi Krupa, Tomasz Ruman, Wiktoria Szuberla, Joanna Nizioł

“…The composition was studied using two mass spectrometry imaging techniques: silver-109 nanoparticles assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging (109AgNPs-LDI-MSI) and laser ablation-remote atmospheric pressure photoionization/chemical ionization mass spectrometry imaging (LARAPPI/CI-MSI) and the identification was aided by ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography and ultra-high-resolution mass spectrometry (UHPLC-UHRMS) analysis. …”
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