Silver nanoparticles are a more effective cancer treatment in immune competent mice.
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Switching Liquid Repellent Surfaces
Researchers from Pennsylvania State University, USA, have now revealed a magnetically transformable surface that can reversibly switch between the lotus and the pitcher plant modes
Let Disorder Shine
An uniaxial press can assemble monodisperse silica spheres to photonic glasses that exhibit finely tunable Mie scattering.
Magnetoelectric Robots Target Disease
Salvador Pané and colleagues demonstrate core–shell magnetoelectric nanowires that can be triggered using different magnetic fields for targeted drug delivery to kill cancer cells.
Improved Drug Delivery with Layered, Coated Drug Cores
A recent review highlights and discusses the layer-by-layer encapsulation of solid drug particles.
Small is Big and Strong in Suzhou
Shuit-Tong Lee and Lifeng Chi have guest edited an issue of Advanced Materials, which provides an insight into the nanoscience research going on in and around Suzhou.
Any Way the Wind Blows…
Omnidirectional energy harvesting with perovskite nanogenerators.
Contradictory wetting: superlyophobic surfaces
Researchers at Aalto University, in Espoo in Finland, unravel the design principles of unusual dual superlyophobic surfaces in oil–water systems.
Recyclable Thermochromic Supramolecular Assemblies
A new class of thermochromic supramolecular material has been designed, which is taking steps toward versatility, sustainability, and scalability.
Porous silicon nanoparticles improve diabetic wound healing
Researchers from the University of South Australia reveal how they use non-toxic porous silicon nanoparticles (pSi NPs) for the controlled release of FnAb to diabetic wounds.
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