AMES, Iowa – Scientists have been making nanoparticles out of DNA strands for two decades, manipulating the bonds that maintain DNA’s double-helical shape to sculpt self-assembling structures that ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Adding gold nanoparticles to 3D printed materials has always faced a fundamental problem: the particles must either be mixed into the printing material beforehand or applied as a ...

A new method uses gold to assemble multi-element nanoparticles under mild conditions, offering improvements in catalytic activity and long-term stability. (Nanowerk Spotlight) The drive to engineer ...

Solutions containing solvated electrons are inherently clean chemical reactants, and they could become easier and cheaper to make now that chemists have uncovered the long-sought mechanism of a ...

Engineers have developed modular nanoparticles that can be easily customized to target different biological entities such as tumors, viruses or toxins. The surface of the nanoparticles is engineered ...

Illustration of the gene construct used in this study and the process of scaffold and DNA nanoparticle generation via aPCR and DNA origami, respectively, along with schematic diagram of different DNA ...

Live cell fluorescent visualization of biological molecules binding to the surface of genetically modified cell membranes, which serve as the coating for the modular nanoparticles. Engineers at the ...

‘Green’ reducing agents could help tackle climate change and treat contaminated water. When scientists shine low-intensity near-ultraviolet light on metal nanoparticles, electrons in the nanoparticles ...