introduction: nanoparticles are being increasingly applied in dentistry due to their antimicrobial and mechanical properties. this in vitro study aimed to assess and compare the cytotoxicity of four metal oxide nanoparticles (tio 2 , sio 2 , zno, and al 2 o 3 ) on human dental pulp stem cells. methods and materials: four suspension with different concentrations (25, 50, 75, 100 µg/ml) of each n...

This review focuses on the impacts of metal-organic interfacial bonding interactions on the charge-transport dynamics involved in molecular junctions as well as organically capped nanoparticles. Whereas mercapto derivatives have been used extensively as the ligands of choice to functionalize metal and nanoparticle surfaces with the formation of metal-thiolate interfacial bonds, recent studies s...

In this paper, the tunable optical trapping dependence on wavelength of incident beam is theoretically investigated based on numerical simulations. The Monte Carlo method is taken into account for exploring the trapping characteristics such as average deviation and number distribution histogram of nanoparticles. It is revealed that both the width and the depth of potential well for trapping par...

BACKGROUND Nanoparticle-metal oxide and gold represents a new class of important materials that are increasingly being developed for use in research and health related activities. The biological system being extremely critical requires the fundamental understanding on the influence of inorganic nanoparticles on cellular growth and functions. Our study was aimed to find out the effect of iron ox...

Nanoparticle polymer composites containing metal, semiconductor, magnetic, and optically active nanoparticles were deposited onto multiple substrates from a heatable atomic force microscope tip. The nanoparticle nanostructures were functional as deposited or could be etched with an oxygen plasma, revealing single nanoparticle lithographic resolution. Many types of nanoparticles can be patterned...

due to its ability in chemical oxidation of contaminants, iron nanoparticle is a material of choice to remove lead ions from aquatic solutions. in this study a reduction method in solution phase was applied to synthesize thenanoparticles. afterwards, the size of the synthesized particles were confirmed by scanning electron microscopy. it is worth noting that the nanoparticle dose-variations wer...

Monolayer-protected transition metal nanoparticles are a unique family of functional nanomaterials in which the properties of the materials can be readily manipulated not only by the chemical nature of the metal cores and the organic protecting ligands, but also the metal–ligand interfacial bonding interactions. The latter is largely motivated by recent progress in nanoparticle passivation by m...

Aseptic loosening is the most common cause of total hip arthroplasty (THA) failure, and osteolysis induced by wear particles plays a major role in aseptic loosening. Various pathways in multiple cell types contribute to the pathogenesis of osteolysis, but the role of Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1), which can regulate inflammatory responses through its deacetylation, has never been investigated. We hypothesi...

Supported metal nanoparticle catalysts are commonly obtained through deposition of metal precursors onto the support using incipient wetness impregnation. Typically, empirical relations between metal nanoparticle structure and catalytic performance are inferred from ensemble averaged data in combination with high-resolution electron microscopy. This approach clearly underestimates the importanc...