Bird feather microstructure exhibits an astonishing water-assisted ability of self-repair, which enables birds to replace their plumage only once per year.
Felix Spenkuch
Syringe-Free: Oral Vaccine against Helicobacter pylori
To fight antibiotic-resistant pathogens, and to ensure wide-spread application and high compliance, oral vaccinations are desirable, but pose drug delivery complications. An efficient nanoparticle system for vaccination against stomach ulcer causing Helicobacter pylori was recently reported.
NO to Multidrug-Resistant Cancer
Photothermal core-shell nanoparticles that can release nitric oxide upon NIR irradiation efficiently reversing multi-drug resistance in cancer.
Blocking Oxidation Failures of Carbon Nanotubes through Selective Protection of Defects
Learn about how to block oxidation failure in carbon nanotubes for application in thermoacoustic devices.
Just a Pinch of Base or Acid: Enhancing Proton Transport in Peptide Fibrils
Biological inspired proton transfer is investigated in a recent publication in Advanced Functional Materials.
The Jack-of-all-Trades for Neuroendocrine Tumor Therapy
Upconversion nanoparticle-based micelles for neuroendocrine tumor theranostics.
How to Grow Nanomushrooms
You can now include gold/silica nanomushrooms on your menu, as András Deák and co-workers recently published their generation in Particle.
Gold just Went Black!
Researchers from the Australian National Fabrication Facility, Monash University, and the University of Melbourne describe the straightforward preparation of black gold, a material of promising optical properties.
Let Disorder Shine
An uniaxial press can assemble monodisperse silica spheres to photonic glasses that exhibit finely tunable Mie scattering.
Genetically Modified Energy – How DNA Enhances Photoelectrochemical Solar Cells
In a recent study, researchers succeeded in applying chickpea and wheat DNA as bridging unit and thin tunneling layer at the TiO2/dye interface.