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Nanomaterials, Volume 6, Issue 7

July 2016 - 17 articles

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Articles (17)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,973 Views
12 Pages

Enhanced Deposition Uniformity via an Auxiliary Electrode in Massive Electrospinning

  • Dezhi Wu,
  • Zhiming Xiao,
  • Lei Deng,
  • Yu Sun,
  • Qiulin Tan,
  • Linxi Dong,
  • Shaohua Huang,
  • Rui Zhu,
  • Yifang Liu and
  • Wanxi Zheng
  • + 3 authors

Uniform deposition of nanofibers in the massive electrospinning process is critical in the industrial applications of nanofibers. Tip-Induced Electrospinning (TIE) is a cost-effective large-scale nanofiber-manufacturing method, but it has poor deposi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,967 Views
14 Pages

Antimicrobial Properties of Biofunctionalized Silver Nanoparticles on Clinical Isolates of Streptococcus mutans and Its Serotypes

  • Ángel Manuel Martínez-Robles,
  • Juan Pablo Loyola-Rodríguez,
  • Norma Verónica Zavala-Alonso,
  • Rita Elizabeth Martinez-Martinez,
  • Facundo Ruiz,
  • René Homero Lara-Castro,
  • Alejandro Donohué-Cornejo,
  • Simón Yobanny Reyes-López and
  • León Francisco Espinosa-Cristóbal

(1) Background: Streptococcus mutans (S. mutans) is the principal pathogen involved in the formation of dental caries. Other systemic diseases have also been associated with specific S. mutans serotypes (c, e, f, and k). Silver nanoparticles (SNP) ha...

  • Review
  • Open Access
82 Citations
12,687 Views
21 Pages

Nanomaterials for Tissue Engineering In Dentistry

  • Manila Chieruzzi,
  • Stefano Pagano,
  • Silvia Moretti,
  • Roberto Pinna,
  • Egle Milia,
  • Luigi Torre and
  • Stefano Eramo

The tissue engineering (TE) of dental oral tissue is facing significant changes in clinical treatments in dentistry. TE is based on a stem cell, signaling molecule, and scaffold triad that must be known and calibrated with attention to specific secto...

  • Review
  • Open Access
53 Citations
10,012 Views
15 Pages

Nanomaterials for Cardiac Myocyte Tissue Engineering

  • Rodolfo Amezcua,
  • Ajay Shirolkar,
  • Carolyn Fraze and
  • David A. Stout

Since their synthesizing introduction to the research community, nanomaterials have infiltrated almost every corner of science and engineering. Over the last decade, one such field has begun to look at using nanomaterials for beneficial applications...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,039 Views
12 Pages

Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) has been an extensively used tumor marker responsible for clinical early diagnosis of cervical carcinomas, and pancreatic, colorectal, gastric and lung cancer. Combined with micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) techno...

  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
8,096 Views
22 Pages

Lipid Nanovectors to Deliver RNA Oligonucleotides in Cancer

  • Virginia Campani,
  • Giuseppina Salzano,
  • Sara Lusa and
  • Giuseppe De Rosa

The growing knowledge on the mechanisms of gene silencing and gene regulation by non-coding RNAs (ncRNA), mainly small interfering RNA (siRNA) and microRNA (miRNA), is providing a significant boost to the development of new therapeutic strategies for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,435 Views
13 Pages

Nanostructures Derived from Starch and Chitosan for Fluorescence Bio-Imaging

  • Yinxue Zu,
  • Jingran Bi,
  • Huiping Yan,
  • Haitao Wang,
  • Yukun Song,
  • Bei-Wei Zhu and
  • Mingqian Tan

Fluorescent nanostructures (NSs) derived from polysaccharides have drawn great attention as novel fluorescent probes for potential bio-imaging applications. Herein, we reported a facile alkali-assisted hydrothermal method to fabricate polysaccharide...

  • Review
  • Open Access
131 Citations
13,761 Views
30 Pages

Electrospinning of Nanofibers for Energy Applications

  • Guiru Sun,
  • Liqun Sun,
  • Haiming Xie and
  • Jia Liu

With global concerns about the shortage of fossil fuels and environmental issues, the development of efficient and clean energy storage devices has been drastically accelerated. Nanofibers are used widely for energy storage devices due to their high...

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
8,769 Views
17 Pages

This paper investigates the characteristics of graphene oxide (GO) for Bisphenol A (BPA) adsorption in water. Batch experiments on the influence of significant parameters were performed. While an improvement of the adsorption capacity of BPA was obta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,722 Views
5 Pages

A Gallium Oxide-Graphene Oxide Hybrid Composite for Enhanced Photocatalytic Reaction

  • Seungdu Kim,
  • Kook In Han,
  • In Gyu Lee,
  • Won Kyu Park,
  • Yeojoon Yoon,
  • Chan Sei Yoo,
  • Woo Seok Yang and
  • Wan Sik Hwang

Hybrid composites (HCs) made up of gallium oxide (GaO) and graphene oxide (GO) were investigated with the intent of enhancing a photocatalytic reaction under ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The material properties of both GaO and GO were preserved, even...

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