First example of directed delivery of drug-loaded particles by magnetically driven nanomotors holds promise for biomedical applications

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for November 2011

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New pretreatment process delivers biocompatible, stable gold nanorods for tumor treatment

Using an alkaline solution as electrolyte comprised of only environmentally friendly and widely available elements

Magnetite nanocrystals with multiple facets show potential as lithium ion battery anode material with high storage capacity

Spherical nanostructure might make cleaning of eyeglasses and windscreenes a thing of the past

Robert Mulvey, Xinliang Feng, Rhett Kempe, and Zhang-Jie Shi are interviewed this month

BASF and the universities of Strasbourg and Freiburg and the ETH Zurich team up on functional materials research

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