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The uptake of nanoparticles into cells and their inheritance during cell division is shown to be random, which has implications for dose considerations in drug delivery and nanotoxicology studies.
Supramolecular membranes prepared from fibrous assemblies in water can be disassembled in organic solvent after use and then cleaned, reassembled and reused numerous times.
A slab of plasmonic nanorod metamaterial less than one wavelength thick exhibits an 80% change in transmission when illuminated by a weak control light beam.
The kinetics of DNA hybridization can be explored by measuring the conductance of a carbon nanotube that has a single strand of DNA covalently attached to a point defect.
Core–shell zinc oxide microspheres mechanically vibrate and emit radiation at terahertz frequencies with a quantum emission efficiency of 33% when illuminated by a continuous-wave green laser.
Interactions between RNA strands and ribosomal proteins can be used to make functional nanostructures that could have applications in nanomedicine and synthetic biology.
The growth of mesoporous silica layers on a flat substrate can be observed in real time using fluorescence polarization imaging and atomic force microscopy.