Biodistribution of nanoparticles is dependent on their physicochemical properties (such as size, surface charge, and surface hydrophilicity). Clear and systematic understanding of nanoparticle properties' effects on their in vivo performance is of fundamental significance in nanoparticle design, development and optimization for medical applications, and toxicity evaluation. In the present study...

The formation of complexes between nanoparticles and polyelectrolytes is a key process for the control of the reactivity of manufactured nanoparticles and rational design of core shell nanostructures. In this work, we investigate the influence of the nanoparticle dielectric constant on the adsorption of a linear charged polymer (polyelectrolyte) at the surface of a neutral nanoparticle. The pol...

oxide nanoparticles can exhibit unique physical and chemical properties due to their limited size and a high density of corner or edge surface sites. in this study, mgo nanoparticle was synthesized using mg(ch3coo)2 and hexamethylenetetramine as starting materials. the structure and optical properties of these particles are investigated by using x-ray diffraction (xrd), scanning electron micros...

in this paper, the interaction between an oscillating dipole moment and a silver nanoparticle has been studied. our calculations are based on mie scattering theory and discrete dipole approximation(dda) method.at first, the resonance frequency due to excitingthe localized surface plasmons has been obtained using mie scattering theory and then by exciting a dipole moment in theclose proximity of...

In recent years, numerous reports concerning the reduced relaxivity of cell-internalized contrast agents (CA) have been made (e.g. [1], [2]). This reduction is caused by the compartmentalization of CA inside the cells and has already been thoroughly investigated [3]. The aim of this study was to develop a method to correctly quantify the density of cell populations with intracellular CA despite...

We synthesized sub-10 nm carbon nanoparticles (CNPs) consistent with photoluminescent carbon dots (C-dots) from carbon fiber starting material. The production of different C-dots fractions was monitored over seven days. During the course of the reaction, one fraction of C-dots species with relatively high photoluminescence was short-lived, emerging during the first hour of reaction but disappea...

A facile and green microbial method to produce graphite oxide nanosheets and nanoparticles is described. The obtained graphite oxide nanosheets have few layers with 0.7-1.5 nm height and 50-300 nm size. The carbon nanoparticles possess the size of 20-60 nm and the height of 2-4 nm.

Introduction: Dark T2* contrast of SPIO has been widely used in cell tracking in molecular MRI [1, 2], but this negative contrast may be indistinguishable from ones generated by air bubbles that are commonly observed in gel phantoms due to their porous nature. In this study, we propose to distinguish air bubbles from SPIO labeled cells by quantifying the magnetization at two different field str...

In the literature, few studies detailed morphometric parameters of the inferior olivary complex, and mainly applying biased methods based on counting in a two-dimensional plane. In the present work, the unbiased quantitative method of the optic disector was applied in order to analyse neuronal densities, nuclear volumes and total neuron numbers of the principal (PION), medial (MION) and dorsal ...