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

Golden Trojan Horses

Ranking of Worldwide Research Institutions
The Scimago Institutions Ranking, the SIR World Reports 2012, is the most comprehensive ranking of Worldwide Research Institutions

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

Angewandte Chemie 34/2012: In the Limelight
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Fragments of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes
Book that looks at the rapidly growing interest in open geodesic polyaromatic molecules is reviewed by Fabien Durola, France

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

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

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

Angewandte Chemie 33/2012: Illuminating
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie