For several decades, energy-transfer upconversion (ETU) in rare-earth-ion doped systems [1,2] has attracted much attention, firstly, because of the fundamental interest in the physical nature of this process and, secondly, because of very practical considerations, namely the demonstration of near-infrared pumped visible light sources and, in reverse, the detrimental influence of ETU on the effi...

The highly invasive nature of glioblastoma is one of the most significant problems regarding the treatment of this tumor. Diamond nanoparticles (ND), graphite nanoparticles (NG), and graphene oxide nanoplatelets (nGO) have been explored for their biomedical applications, especially for drug delivery. The objective of this research was to assess changes in the adhesion, migration, and invasivene...

In this study, the structural properties of Mo-doped ZnS nanoparticles (NPs), which were synthesized at room temperature using successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR) method annealed in H2S gas for 1 hour 550 oC, investigated. The XRD result shows that Mo Doped NPs are lattice cubic structure. average crystal size was calculated Debye − Scherrer formula. pure varied with doping. ...

Silica nanoparticles were directly coated with cobalt hydroxide by homogeneous precipitation of slowly decomposing urea in cobalt nitrate solution. The cobalt hydroxide was amorphous, and its morphology was nanoflower-like. The BET (Brunauer-Emmett-Teller) surface area of the core-shell composite was 221 m²/g. Moreover, the possible formation procedure is proposed: the electropositive cobalt io...

Cage-shaped proteins with an affinity for carbonaceous materials were constructed and used to assemble a nanostructure in which single-walled carbon nanotubes are surrounded by cobalt oxide nanoparticles with nanometre gaps. By changing the size of proteins and materials incorporated inside the cavity, similar structures with distinctively different properties can be fabricated.

Permanganate-Based Synthesis of Semiconducting Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in the Protein Ferritin Cameron Olsen Department of Physics and Astronomy, BYU Bachelor of Science This thesis investigates the reactions of Mn2+ and Co2+ with permanganate as a route for manganese and cobalt oxide nanoparticle synthesis in the protein ferritin. Permanganate serves as the electron acceptor and reacts with ...

Previously, pulsed magneto-motive ultrasound (pMMUS) imaging has been introduced as a contrast-agent-assisted ultrasound-based imaging modality capable of visualizing biological events at the cellular and molecular level. In pMMUS imaging, a high intensity pulsed magnetic field is used to excite cells or tissue labeled with magnetic nanoparticles. Then, ultrasound (US) imaging is used to monito...

Monodisperse cobalt nanoparticles are synthesized via a high-temperature thermal decomposition method in the presence of oleic acid and triphenylphosphine. The as-synthesized nanoparticles are stable against further deep oxidation when they are kept in heptane .C7H16/. Time-dependent XPS studies indicate that oxidation of the as-synthesized cobalt nanoparticles in air is slow. The valence chang...

in this work the synthesization process of nanocrstallite nd:ktp powders by modified pechini methodwas studied. the results of xrd studies indicate that ktp nanocrystallites doped by nd has orthorhombicphase. the structural and lattice modes of the synthesized nanocrystallite products were investigated byusing micro raman back scattering and ft-ir transmission spectroscopies. sem imaging techni...