Researchers recently demonstrated that platinum nanoparticles can be used to kill liver cancer cells with greater selectivity than existing cancer drugs. In recent years, the number of targeted cancer ...

Researchers developed platinum-calcium alloy nanoparticles that improve both efficiency and durability of hydrogen fuel cells using a liquid-phase synthesis method. Previous studies had suggested that ...

Chemotherapy drugs are effective at killing cancer cells – but unfortunately, they're also pretty good at killing healthy cells. Making these drugs more selective for tumors is a key area of research, ...

Graphene electrodes could enable higher quality imaging of brain cell activity thanks to new research by a team of engineers and neuroscientists at the University of California San Diego. The ...

A research team led by Professor Jong-sung Yu of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at DGIST (President Kunwoo Kim) has successfully synthesized platinum-calcium alloy nanoparticles ...

Sintilimab combined with chemotherapy in conversion therapy of advanced gastric cancer: A retrospective study. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does ...

A team of Brown University scientists has developed a new catalyst that could make hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles more economical. Based on nanoparticles made of an alloy of platinum and cobalt, ...

Plasmonic nanoparticles have proven to hold significant benefits, increasing their popularity amongst scientists who are keen to advance medicine with nanotechnological innovations. Plasmonic ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Catalytic metal nanoparticles supported on oxide substrates are used on a large scale in technological applications such as production of chemicals, abatement of air pollution and ...

Researchers demonstrated the direct counting of small electric charges in individual catalyst nanoparticles. Ultrahigh sensitivity and precision electron holography improved by the developed noise ...