INTRODUCTION Nanosuspensions combine the advantages of nanotherapeutics (e.g. increased dissolution rate and saturation solubility) with ease of commercialisation. Transformation of nanosuspensions to solid oral and inhalable dosage forms minimises the physical instability associated with their liquid state, enhances patient compliance and enables targeted oral and pulmonary drug delivery. AR...

BACKGROUND Many shortcomings exist in the traditional methods of treating bone defects, such as donor tissue shortages for autografts and disease transmission for allografts. The objective of this study was to design a novel three-dimensional nanostructured bone substitute based on magnetically synthesized single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT), biomimetic hydrothermally treated nanocrystalline...

In this study we investigated the effects of Bi addition on the microstructure and mechanical properties of an electrodeposited nanocrystalline Ag coating. Microstructural features were investigated with transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The results indicate that the addition of Bi introduced nanometer-scale Ag-Bi solid solution particles and more internal defects to the initial Ag micros...

Molecular dynamics deformation studies of nanocrystalline metals suggest a plasticity mechanism where dislocations are nucleated at grain boundaries (GB), travel through the grain being hindered by local GB stress intensities, to be finally absorbed in the surrounding GBs [1][2]. Recent constant strain rate molecular dynamics simulations of nanocrystalline Al demonstrated that dislocations can ...

Nanocrystalline materials often exhibit extraordinary mechanical and physical properties but their applications at elevated temperatures are impaired by the rapid grain growth. Moreover, the grain growth in nanocrystalline oxide nanofibers at high temperatures can occur at hundreds of degrees lower than that would occur in corresponding bulk nanocrystalline materials, which would eventually bre...

Background: Nanocrystalline cellulose has potential for biomedical applications due to its abundant material availability, biodegradability, biocompatibility, and low weight. Research on nanocrystalline as medical implants rarely been studied in the past 10 years, although this tremendous such bone cardiovascular implants.
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Nanocrystalline thermoelectric materials based on Si have long been of interest because Si is earth-abundant, inexpensive, and non-toxic. However, a poor understanding of phonon grain boundary scattering and its effect on thermal conductivity has impeded efforts to improve the thermoelectric figure of merit. Here, we report an ab-initio based computational study of thermal transport in nanocrys...

The development of Fe73.5Si13.5B9Nb3Cu1 ~FINEMET! by Yoshizawa et al. and Fe88Zr7B4Cu1 ~NANOPERM! by Inoue et al. have shown that nanocrystalline microstructures can play an important role in the production of materials with outstanding soft magnetic properties. The FINEMET and NANOPERM materials rely on nanocrystalline a-Fe3Si and a-Fe, respectively, for their soft magnetic properties. The mag...

A new approach to grain boundary engineering (GBE) for high performance nanocrystalline materials, especially those produced by electrodeposition and sputtering, is discussed on the basis of some important findings from recently available results on GBE for nanocrystalline materials. In order to optimize their utility, the beneficial effects of grain boundary microstructures have been seriously...

Nanocrystalline alumina powder has been synthesized using solution combustion method. The obtained nanocrystalline alumina powder was used as an efficient catalyst for the synthesis of imidazo[1,2-a]azine derivatives from one-pot three component reaction of benzaldehyde, 2-aminoazine and trimethylsilylcyanide under ultrasonic irradiation and refluxing condition. Reusability of catalyst and shor...