Malaria remains a widespread and deadly infectious human disease, with increasing diagnostic and therapeutic challenges due to the drug resistance and aggressiveness of malaria infection. Early detection and innovative approaches for parasite destruction are needed. The high optical absorbance and nano-size of hemozoin crystals have been exploited to detect and mechanically destroy the malaria ...

Safe and efficient production of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells is crucial importance for cell-based cancer immunotherapy. Physical transfection methods have quickly gained in the context transfecting T-cells, since they are readily compatible with different cell types a broad variety cargo molecules. In particular, nanoparticle-sensitized photoporation has been introduced recent years...

We report a novel form of the gaseous state at the interface of water and highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) that is induced by local supersaturation of gas. Such local supersaturation of gas next to the HOPG substrate can be achieved by (1) displacing an organic liquid with a gentle flow of water, (2) displacing cold water (approximately 0 degrees C) with a gentle flow of warm water (ap...

Vascular bubble models, which present a realistic biophysical approach, hold great promise for devising suitable diver decompression procedures. Nanobubbles were found to nucleate on a flat hydrophobic surface, expanding to form bubbles after decompression. Such active hydrophobic spots (AHS) were formed from lung surfactants on the luminal aspect of ovine blood vessels. Many of the phenomena o...

Plasmonic nanoparticles can lead to extreme confinement of the light in the near field. This unique ability of plasmonic nanoparticles can be used to generate nanobubbles in liquid. In this work, we demonstrate with single-particle monitoring that 100 nm gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) irradiated by off-resonance femtosecond (fs) laser in the tissue therapeutic optical window (λ = 800 nm), can act a...

Based on the analogy between process of spreading a liquid droplet hydrophobic surface and diffusion dissolution nanobubbles (SNB), shape wetting ridge, deformed by capillary forces substrate area adjacent to contact line three phases, is calculated within framework linear elasticity theory. It shown that energy dissipation in viscoelastic substrates ridge can cause pinning triple termination S...