Day: March 14, 2024

Mar 14, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have garnered widespread attention following their successful application in delivering mRNA vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, to fully realize their potential for diverse therapeutic applications, scientists must overcome several clinical hurdles. In a recent forum published in Trends in Biotechnology ("Precise...

Mar 14, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Protein-based drugs must be transported into cells in a way that prevents their immediate degradation. A new approach is intended to ensure that they remain intact only in certain cells, such as cancer cells. In the journal Angewandte Chemie ("Selective Intracellular Delivery of Antibodies in...

Mar 14, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Scientists have developed a new nanoparticle treatment that significantly improves outcomes for severe burn-induced intestinal barrier disruption. The study introduces Luminol-conjugated cyclodextrin (LCD) nanoparticles, offering a promising therapeutic intervention for one of the most critical complications following severe burn injuries. Severe burns can cause critical...

Mar 14, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A research team from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) recently successfully achieved lattice-mismatch-free construction of III-V/chalcogenide core-shell heterostructure nanowires for electronic and optoelectronic applications. This breakthrough addresses crucial technological challenges related to the lattice mismatch problem in the growth of high-quality heterostructure semiconductors, leading...

Mar 14, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Throwing a ball into the air, one can transfer arbitrary energy to the ball such that it flies higher or lower. One of the oddities of quantum physics is that particles, e.g., electrons, can often only take on quantized energy values – as if the...

Mar 14, 2024 (Nanowerk News) In a recent publication in Nature ("Near-ultraviolet photon-counting dual-comb spectroscopy"), researchers at the Max Born Institute (MBI) in Berlin, Germany, and at Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching report on a new technique for deciphering the properties of matter with light, that can simultaneously...

Mar 13, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Physicists often turn to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability to explain why fluid structures form in plasmas, but that may not be the full story when it comes to the ring of hydrogen clumps around supernova 1987A, research from the University of Michigan suggests. In a study...