Golden Trojan Horses

Golden Trojan Horses

Coating Au-198 nanoparticles with epigallocatechin-gallate allows their selective up-take and retention by cancer cells

Reducing Carbon Nanotube Toxicity

Reducing Carbon Nanotube Toxicity

Ultrasound is used to carve carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to release toxic metal impurities in a similar way to wind carving the sand hills in a desert

Growing for Gold

Growing for Gold

Gold nanoparticles grown on ionic liquid-functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes have potential for photothermal therapy

University World Ranking 2012

University World Ranking 2012

Harvard remains the number one in the world for the tenth year; five Chinese universities move into the Top 500 for the first time

Rare-Earth Light Switch

Rare-Earth Light Switch

A covalently attached photochromic molecule switches a dual-emissive nanoparticle between red and green emission

Dynamic DNA Nanostructures

Dynamic DNA Nanostructures

More complexity and control is possible for DNA nanomechanical devices through new linear, triangular, and quadrilateral actuators