Advanced Functional Nanomaterials for Theranostics

Nanomaterials incorporated ultrasound contrast agents for cancer theranostics

Nanotechnology provides various nanomaterials with tremendous functionalities for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. Recently, theranostics has been developed as an alternative strategy for efficient cancer treatment through combination of imaging diagnosis and therapeutic interventions under the guidance of diagnostic results. Ultrasound (US) imaging shows unique advantages with excellent fe...

Advanced Gene Manipulation Methods for Stem Cell Theranostics

In the field of tissue engineering, autologous cell sources are ideal to prevent adverse immune responses; however, stable and reliable cell sources are limited. To acquire more reliable cell sources, the harvesting and differentiation of stem cells from patients is becoming more and more common. To this end, the need to control the fate of these stem cells before transplantation for therapeuti...

Nanomaterials for practical functional uses

The term nanotechnology, which enjoys wide public use, is a concept that covers a wide range of developments in the field of nanoscale electronic omponents, along with its decades-old application in nanocarbon-black particles or silicates manufactured using the sol–gel process. When we efer to nanotechnology today, the term is limited to dealing with particles or assemblies whose dimensions ran...

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Nanomaterials for Functional Textiles and Fibers

Nanoparticles are very interesting because of their surface properties, different from bulk materials. Such properties make possible to endow ordinary products with new functionalities. Their relatively low cost with respect to other nano-additives make them a promising choice for industrial mass-production systems. Nanoparticles of different kind of materials such as silver, titania, and zinc ...