Jan 18, 2015

This week in Nano Week 3 (Jan 12- Jan 18th)



Welcome to the world of nanocrystals. What are nanocrystals I hear you say - well simply put they are nanomaterials composed of  atoms in a single/poly-crystalline arrangement. A research paper published by JACS called ’Decoding the Superlatticeand Interface Structure of Truncate PbS Nanocrystal-Assembled Supercrystal andAssociated Interaction Forces’ published this week (paywalled) looks at the structure of individual nanocrystals  and larger ‘supercrystals’ grown in the lab with electron microscopy. Given that characterisation of these types of structures are more complex than spheres and their wide range of applications (e.g. medicine and electronic) it is a good step forward for those involved with NM design and crystal formation.


Discovered a nice new website called The Future of Things (TFOT). There are ‘dedicated to bringing unique and fun content on science, technology, and medicine to the general public’. This article on the recently published paper investigating how silicon dioxide nanoparticles increase atherogenicity gives a very good overview not only on the paper itself but also on nanomaterials and atherosclerosis


Phototherapy+nanoparticles= improved identification and surgical removal of malignant tumours. Read all about the current work from the Ohio State University here.