The introduction of toxic chemicals into the environment can result in water pollution leading to degradation biodiversity as well human health. This study presents a new approach using metal oxides (Al2O3 and SiO2) modified with plasmonic (silver, Ag) nanoparticles (NPs)-based nanofluid (NF) formulation for environmental remediation purposes. Firstly, we prepared Al2O3 SiO2 NFs different conce...

Increasing interests have been paid to nanofluids because of the intriguing heat transfer enhancement performances presented by this kind of promising heat transfer media. We produced a series of nanofluids and measured their thermal conductivities. In this article, we discussed the measurements and the enhancements of the thermal conductivity of a variety of nanofluids. The base fluids used in...

With advances in the development of various disciplines, there is a need to decipher bio-behavioural mechanisms via interdisciplinary means. Here, we present an interdisciplinary study of the role of silica nanoparticles (SiO2-NPs) in disturbing the neural behaviours of zebrafish and a possible physiological mechanism for this phenomenon. We used adult zebrafish as an animal model to evaluate t...

This article presents a simple label-free detection of nucleic acids by using Pt@mesoporousSiO2 as a "smart" reporter, whose pores are first capped by single-stranded (ss) probe DNA. The detection signal is then amplified using the TMB oxidation reaction catalysed by Pt NPs while hybridizing with the complementary ss target DNA, which makes the pores of mesoporous SiO2 open through hybridization.

Cubic (Im3[combining macron]m) mesoporous silica nanofibers were successfully prepared using a new F127-PVA-SiO2 tri-constituent assembly approach by the electrospinning technique. PVA was used to protect the F127 directed cubic micelles which usually deform during electrospinning. The preformed Au NPs can be loaded inside the mesopores of the nanofibers.

A rapid and simple method was optimized and validated for the separation and quantification of paraquat, a frequently used herbicide and a leading cause of fatal poisoning worldwide, at trace levels with UV-Vis spectrophotometry in plasma and urine samples by direct magnetic solid-phase extraction. Fe3O4@SiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) were used as the magnetic solid-phase extraction agents and the pa...

Current in vitro methods to assess nanomaterial cytotoxicity involve various assays to monitor specific cellular dysfunction, such as metabolic imbalance or inflammation. Although high throughput, fast, and animal-free, these in vitro methods suffer from unreliability and lack of relevance to in vivo situations. New approaches, especially with the potential to reliably relate to in vivo studies...

Nanomaterials such as silica (SiO2) nanoparticles (NPs) are used in various fields owing to their unique properties, especially biomedical applications. It has been reported that these particles induce different kinds of toxicity cells; therefore, it is very important perform multifaceted analyses for accurate nanotoxicity evaluation. Most existing studies have primarily conducted the presence ...

Advances in the use of nanoparticles (NPs) has created promising progress biotechnology and consumer-care based industry. This an increasing need for testing their safety toxicity profiles. Hence, efforts to understand cellular responses towards nanomaterials are needed. However, current methods using animal cancer-derived cell lines raise questions on physiological relevance. In this aspect, s...