http://www.materialsviews.com Nanoparticles MaterialsViews Rss Feed http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/1442863/Breast_cancer_cells_targeted_then_burned_by_gold-filled_silicon_wafers.html By shining infrared light on specially designed, gold-filled silicon wafers, scientists at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute have successfully targeted and burned breast cancer cells. 2012-01-18T16:00:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/1442719/Stain_Your_Brain_Nanoparticles_Enable_Brain_Surgery.html Researchers from the University of Michigan have developed a nanoparticle-based system for staining brain tumours, improving on previous fluorescence and MRI-based methods. 2012-01-17T16:00:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/1433071/Most_Read_Advanced_Functional_Materials_Papers_for_December_2011.html Silk microneedles, improved solar cells, and a real-life moisture vaporator featured in the most-read Advanced Functional Materials articles in December. 2012-01-03T02:00:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/1419799/Remote_controlled_nanoparticles_deliver_the_goods.html An alternating magnetic field is used to control drug release from an injectable composite of iron oxide particles and a thermoresponsive polymer. 2011-12-22T08:00:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/1419897/Novel_Gold-Nanoparticle-Based_Assay_for_Understanding_Alzheimers_Disease.html A highly sensitive assay has been developed, and applied to monitor progression and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease in model mice. 2011-12-13T08:00:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/1409907/Trojan_Horse_Causes_Nanoparticle_Allergy.html Workers with existing allergic conditions have worse reactions when exposed to nanoparticles in the workplace, suggest Chinese scientists. They believe that the response is caused by a Trojan horse known as an exosome, which is present in all of us. 2011-12-08T06:00:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/1415147/Cooking_Cancer_with_Lasers_and_Gold.html Professor Mauro Ferrari and coworkers have reported a nanostructure of silicon and gold which is shown to be 4 times as effective at killing cancer cells in cell culture experiments as gold nanoshells are alone. 2011-12-07T14:00:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/1396607/Defying_Expectation_-_Cellular_Uptake_of_Nanoparticles.html With the proliferation of nanomaterials comes the question of their potential hazards - new work takes a deeper look at the effects on nanoparticles on biological matter. 2011-11-24T06:00:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/1396503/Testing_for_Enzyme_Activity_using_Gold_Nanoparticles.html Can you see just by looking whether or not an active enzyme is present? A group of researchers from China say yes! 2011-11-18T08:00:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/1353345/Peidong_Yang_Named_Recipient_of_2011_MRS_Medal_Award.html Coauthor of the most-cited paper in Advanced Materials history honored for outstanding contributions in semiconductor nanowires. 2011-09-22T15:55:00Z