The chemical design of smart nanocarriers, providing in one nanoformulation combined anticancer therapies, still remains a challenge the field nanomedicine. Among nanomaterials, iron oxide-based core-shell nanostructures have been already studied for their intrinsic magnetic hyperthermia features that may be coupled with drug delivery. However, despite great interest today photo-induced hyperth...

Understanding electron-transfer (ET) processes in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) is crucial to improving their device performance. Recently, covalent attachment of dye molecules to mesoporous semiconductor nanoparticle films via molecular linkers has been employed to increase the stability of DSSC photoanodes. The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of these DSSCs, however, is lower than DSSC...

The use of short bioadhesive peptides derived from the extracellular matrix has shown to efficiently enhance cell adhesion and improve biointegration in vitro and in vivo. One of the most commonly used method for binding biomolecules is by means of organosilanes. For pure titanium, there is a large diversity of literature suggesting organosilanes bearing different functional groups. Despite the...

Sensitive and quantitative detection of tumor markers is highly required in the clinic for cancer diagnosis and consequent treatment. A field-effect transistor-based (FET-based) nanobiosensor emerges with characteristics of being label-free, real-time, having high sensitivity, and providing direct electrical readout for detection of biomarkers. In this paper, a top-down approach is proposed and...

Cancer is an abnormal growth of cells which could spread in the body. Cancer is one of the common diseases in the world and chemotherapy is one of the best methods for cancer treatment. There are various types of anticancer drug that uses for chemotherapy. Doxorubicin (DOX) is one the common anticancer drug which widely uses for breast cancer. This anticancer drug has many side effects [1]. Des...

This reaserch aims at functionalizing magnetic mesoporous silica with methacrylic acid-3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (Fe3O4@MCM-41@MAA-APTES) applied for removal of methylene blue from aqueous solution. Several variables (such as pH, dye concentration, adsorbent amount and contact time) have been investigated. Under optimum conditions, maximum capacity of 87.71 mg g-1 of MB was obtained for the ...