Blood-mediated nanoparticle delivery is a new and growing field in the development of therapeutics and diagnostics. Nanoparticle properties such as size, shape and surface chemistry can be controlled to improve their performance in biological systems. This enables modulation of immune system interactions, blood clearance profile and interaction with target cells, thereby aiding effective delive...

Phase-change materials (PCMs) are of broad interest for thermal storage and management applications. For energy-dense storage with fast thermal charging/discharging rates, a PCM should have a suitable melting temperature, large enthalpy of fusion, and high thermal conductivity. To simultaneously accomplish these traits, we custom design nanocomposites consisting of phase-change Bi nanoparticles...

Rapidly developing field of nanobiotechnology dealing with metallic nanoparticle (MNP) synthesis is primarily lacking control over size, shape, dispersity, yield, and reaction time. Present work describes an ecofriendly method for the synthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) by cell free extract (CFE) of Saccharomyces boulardii. Parameters such as culture age (stationary phase growth), cell ma...

The sensitive detection and quantitative measurement of biological nanoparticles such as viruses or exosomes is of growing importance in biology and medicine since these structures are implicated in many biological processes and diseases. Interferometric reflectance imaging is a label-free optical biosensing method which can directly detect individual biological nanoparticles when they are immo...

A photoinduced method for converting large quantities of silver nanospheres into triangular nanoprisms is reported. The photo-process has been characterized by time-dependent ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy, allowing for the observation of several key intermediates in and characteristics of the conversion process. This light-driven process results in a coll...

A method to produce and pattern magnetic microstructure in a soft-polymer matrix is demonstrated. An externally applied magnetic field is used to influence the dynamics of magnetophoretic transport and dipolar self-assembly of magnetic nanoparticle clusters in the liquid precursor of poly-dimethylsiloxane (PDMS). Magnetic nanoparticles agglomerate by an interplay of van der Waals forces and dip...

Exciton transport in semiconductor nanoparticles underlies recent experiments on electrically controlled nanostructures and proposals for new artificial light-harvesting systems. In this work, we develop a novel method for the numerical evaluation of the Forster matrix element, based on a three-dimensional real space grid and the self-consistent solution of the mesoscopic exciton in a macroscop...

The morphology of small gold particles prepared by Volmer–Weber growth on sapphire substrates have been investigated by two different characterization techniques. First, by non-extensive atomic force microscopy (AFM) in combination with optical spectroscopy and modeling of the optical properties using a theoretical model, recently developed in our group. Second, by extensive transmission electr...

Nanoparticle drug delivery systems encounter many biological barriers, such as the extracellular matrix and mucus gels, that they must bypass to gain access target cells. A design parameter has recently gained attention is nanoparticle shape, it been shown elongated rod–shaped nanoparticles achieve higher diffusion rates through gels. However, optimal dimensions of rod-shaped enhance this effec...

dominated by the interactions between the DNA ligands, the surface energies of individual DNA-capped nanoparticles and their connectivity could be designed so as to obtain a particular (macroscopic) crystal shape. That is, from knowledge of the local DNA interactions and thermodynamic considerations (such as the Wulff construction) one should be able to predict both the interactions among the i...