Nanotechnology and, in particular, the development of nanosized delivery systems for biotech drugs (namely peptides, proteins and oligonucleotides), is a multidisciplinary field undergoing exponential development in the latest years [1-3]. The rate of these developments has been dictated in parallel by the progress of biotechnology. Biotechnological techniques have expanded the variety of thera...

AIM Biomimetic nano-assembly formation offers a convenient and bio friendly approach to fabricate complex structures from simple components with sub-nanometer precision. Recently, biomimetic (employing microorganism/plants) synthesis of metal and inorganic materials nano-particles has emerged as a simple and viable strategy. In the present study, we have extended biological synthesis of nano-pa...

Valeri Petkov,*,† Nick Bedford,† Marc R. Knecht,‡,§ Michael G. Weir,‡ Richard M. Crooks,‡ Wenjie Tang,‡ Graeme Henkelman,‡ and Anatoly Frenkel| Department of Physics, 203 Dow Science, Central Michigan UniVersity, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48859, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The UniVersity of Texas at Austin, 5300 Austin, Texas 78712, and Department of Physics, YeshiVa UniVersity, 245 ...

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are nanosized (~30-1000 nm) lipid-enclosed particles released by a variety of cell types. EVs found in biological fluids and considered promising material for disease...

Much attention has been paid to the nanoparticles (NPs) that are produced for applications in various areas, such as semiconductor or metallic NPs used in the fabrication of components, polymer additives in packaging, tires or NPs for catalysts or in sunscreen formulations, and oxide NPs applied in our daily life. These NPs are produced in the environment and may penetrate into the human body t...

The influence of different boron precursor powders on the critical current density of MgB2 superconductor with added Ni-Co-B nanoparticles is investigated. Different types of boron have different morphologies, particle sizes and impurity content, all of which have a strong impact on the critical current density ( Jc). The boron samples investigated in this study include three different boron po...