Green Approaches to Carbon Nanostructure-Based Biomaterials

Biomaterials Approaches to Combating Oral Biofilms and Dental Disease

BACKGROUND Possibilities for biomaterials to impact the dental caries epidemic are reviewed with emphasis placed on novel delivery biomaterials and new therapeutic targets.

Nanostructure-Based Theranostic Systems

This themed issue continues the focus on the recent developments of nanoscaled theranostic systems for early and accurate disease diagnosis, especially cancer diagnosis, as well as effective cancer treatment and management.

Silk-based biomaterials.

Silk from the silkworm, Bombyx mori, has been used as biomedical suture material for centuries. The unique mechanical properties of these fibers provided important clinical repair options for many applications. During the past 20 years, some biocompatibility problems have been reported for silkworm silk; however, contamination from residual sericin (glue-like proteins) was the likely cause. Mor...

Approaches to Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions

ZnO Nanostructure-Based Intracellular Sensor

Recently ZnO has attracted much interest because of its usefulness for intracellular measurements of biochemical species by using its semiconducting, electrochemical, catalytic properties and for being biosafe and biocompatible. ZnO thus has a wide range of applications in optoelectronics, intracellular nanosensors, transducers, energy conversion and medical sciences. This review relates specif...