The past decade has witnessed the accelerating development of ultrasmall nanoparticles (NPs) in disease diagnosis and treatment. Fundamental understanding of the in vivo transport and nano-bio interactions of ultrasmall ...

Soft robots and humanoids need actuators with low profile, lightweight, high strain and relatively high frequency. Coiled shape memory alloy (CSMA) actuators satisfy these requirements, as SMAs are high-energy density ...

Nanoparticle (NP) abrasives are components of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) slurries used to polish wafers of semiconducting materials such as silicon. The semiconductor industry is interested in understanding ...

Spatiotemporal control of protein structure and activity in biological systems has important and broad implications in biomedical sciences as evidenced by recent advances in optogenetic approaches. However, it is challenging ...

Nanoparticles, upon their introduction, seemed to be the key to solving many issues surrounding human illness, however, poor control of nanoparticle size distribution, long-term bioaccumulation, and toxicity are obstacles ...

Stimuli responsive materials, also known as “smart” materials, are capable of altering their properties in a controllable fashion in response to external stimuli. While most reported smart materials are based on synthetic ...

Carbon molecular sieve membranes (CMSMs) are a subclass of porous materials with the ability to perform molecular sieving. Controlling the jump lengths from one pore to another allows for enhanced permselectivity of such ...

Cancer is one of the major causes of death worldwide and has motivated researchers to look for better and more promising treatments than surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. The use of chemo and radiation therapy ...

Wrinkled mesoporous silica (WMS) has been shown to be a promising material for enzyme immobilization. The WMS possesses a unique wrinkled structure with conical shaped pores which radiate from the center to the surface ...

Renal clearable fluorescent gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have potential to become tumor imaging and drug delivery agents because of their minimized accumulation in the body. However, they cannot actively target tumor receptors ...