BACKGROUND Pulmonary surfactant reduces surface tension and is present at the air-liquid interface in the alveoli where inhaled nanoparticles preferentially deposit. We investigated the effect of titanium dioxide (TiO(2)) nanosized particles (NSP) and microsized particles (MSP) on biophysical surfactant function after direct particle contact and after surface area cycling in vitro. In addition,...

Nanosized Powders are known to have very useful applications in the areas of medical, structural, chemical and other various fields because of their enhanced physical, optical, and magnetic properties. Several Synthesis methods have been developed for the production of nanopowders. This paper will discuss different methods used for the production of nanosized powders and their advantages and di...

template synthesis is a powerful method for the preparation of nanoscale materials with specific size and shape. cadmium oxide (cdo) nanoparticles were synthesized by using sodium dodecyl sulfate (sds), cd(oac)2.2h2o and sodium hydroxide as starting materials. the sample was characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd), scanning electron microscopy (sem). the xrd pattern proves that the final produ...

This work reports on the investigation of nanosized CeO2-ZnO systems prepared by Pechini ́s method. The structural and morphological characterization of CeO2-ZnO systems as well as the characterization of CeO2 and ZnO separately, showed that the employed method result in powders with spheroidal particles whose size are in the range 30 200 nm, which is appropriate to provide homogeneous suspensio...

We use Brownian dynamics simulations to study the adsorption behavior of a nanosized particle on polymer brushes. The adsorption process, the dynamic behavior of the nanoparticle in brush, the penetration depth, and the di usion coe cient of the nanoparticle in di erent depths of the brush are all investigated for di erent grafting densities. We provide an area density Γ , which is the area ave...

Lithium nickel oxide (LiNiO2) powders with an R3 m structure are successfully synthesized via a developed reverse microemulsion process. This method can effectively reduce the calcination temperature for synthesizing monophasic LiNiO2 powders to 700 C, which is much lower than that in the solid-state process. Nanosized LiNiO2 powders with narrow particle size distribution are obtained via the m...

Nanosized strontium aluminate phosphors co-activated by Eu2+ and Dy3+ were prepared via a novel reverse microemulsion process. This new ynthesis technique lowered the synthesis temperature of SrAl2O4: Eu2+, Dy3+ phosphors to as low as 900 ◦C, and also reduced the particle size o the nanometer scale (around 40 nm). In the microemulsion process, the constituent cations were trapped by numerous na...

ethosomes are a novel and alternative drug delivery systems and currently the focus of many research activities. ethosomes are soft, flexible vesicles that are composed mainly of phospholipids, ethanol and water. ethosomes can provide better skin permeation than liposomes and deliver enhanced amounts of both small and large therapeutic agents through skin and targeting to deeper skin layers for...

A simple and practicable evaporation-induced self-assembly (EISA) method is introduced for the first time to prepare nanosized solid electrolyte Li1.4Al0.4Ti1.6(PO4)3 (LATP) for all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries. A pure Na+ super ion conductor (NASICON) phase is confirmed by X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, and its primary particle size is down to 70 nm by optimizing evaporation rate of th...