Academic Articles & Research Papers

Comparative Immunogenicity and Safety of Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine When Administered Using Needle Free Injection System to That with Conventional Needle-Syringe in India: A Randomized, Parallel Group Study

B S Ratta,1,* Ankur Naik,2,* Sarvesh Mutha3,* 1Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune, India; 2Chief Technology Officer, IntegriMedical Private Limited, Pune, India; 3Chief Business Officer, IntegriMed...

Digital Co-Creation in Socially Sustainable Smart City Projects: Lessons From the European Union and Canada

Utilizing readily accessible information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as mobile devices, applications, and simple Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, and harnessing their potential through Experimentation as a Service (EaaS), c...

From intra- to extra-uterine: early phase design of a transfer to extra-uterine life support through medical simulation

IntroductionExtra-uterine life support technology could provide a more physiologic alternative for the treatment of extremely premature infants, as it allows further fetal growth and development ex utero. Animal studies have been carried ou...

Evaluation of Natural Extracts as Promising Components of Bioactive Coatings for Orthopedic Implants

The development of drug-eluting bioactive coatings for orthopedic implants has gained increased interest in recent years with an intent to reduce postoperative complications and improve tissue regeneration at the implant interface. Due to t...

Lysosome blockade induces divergent metabolic programs in macrophages and tumours for cancer immunotherapy

Abstract Background Platinum-drugs based chemotherapy in clinic increases the potency of tumor cells to produce M2 macrophages, thus leading to poor anti-metastatic activity and immunosuppression. Lysosome metabolism is critical for cancer ...

Functionalization of polyoxometalates: towards advanced applications in catalysis and materials science

Functionalization via covalent grafting of organic functions allows to tune the redox and acid-base properties, and the solubility of polyoxometalates, to enhance their stability and biological activity and to reduce their toxicity, to faci...

Materials science of DNA

This article critically reviews the emerging field of DNA materials science, which is expected to add a new horizon to the conventional materials science landscape. The introduction provides a short overview on recent developments in the no...

Author Correction: Biodegradable black phosphorus-based nanospheres for in vivo photothermal cancer therapy

Second hyperpolarizability of hexagonal graphene quantum dots: Effects of size and structural defects

Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) are nanosized fragments of graphene containing a bandgap caused by edge effects and quantum confinement. These features enable GQDs to have attractive photonics applications. During the preparation of graphene n...

Tuning the effective spin-orbit coupling in molecular semiconductors

Organic semiconductors with long spin lifetime hold promise for future spintronics devices that can process and store information. Here, Schottet al. perform a systematic study of the strength of spin-orbit coupling and its effect on spin l...

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is the study, production and controlled manipulation of materials with a grain size < 100 nm. At this level, the laws of classical mechanics fall away and those of quantum mechanics take over, resulting in unique behaviour of...

NANOTECHNOLOGY

IN THIS C&EN EXCLUSIVE "POINT-COUNTERPOINT," TWO OF nanotechnolog's biggest advocates square off on a fundamental question that will dramatically affect the future development of this field. Are "molecular assemblers"—devices capable of pos...

Nanotechnology for parasitic plant control

The field of nanotechnology opens up novel potential applications for agriculture. Nanotechnology applications are already being explored and used in medicine and pharmacology, but interest for use in crop protection is just starting. The d...

Micro and nanotechnologies

Multilevel Pulse Position Modulation With Level Trimming for Electromagnetic Nanocommunications in the Terahertz Band

Nanomachines are submicrometer-scale devices led by nanotechnology that can perform simple sensing, local actuation, limited data processing, storage, and communication tasks in the terahertz (THz) band, that is, from $\mathrm {0.1~}$ - $...

Thermoelectric Characterization of Electronic Properties of GaMnAs Nanowires

Nanowires with magnetic doping centers are an exciting candidate for the study of spin physics and proof-of-principle spintronics devices. The required heavy doping can be expected to have a significant impact on the nanowires' electron tra...

Light Absorption and Emission by Defects in Doped Nickel Oxide

Nickel oxide is a versatile p‐type semiconducting oxide with many applications in optoelectronic devices, but high doping concentrations are often required to achieve necessary electrical conductivity. In contrast to many other transparent ...

Comparative Study of Field-Effect Transistors Based on Graphene Oxide and CVD Graphene in Highly Sensitive NT-proBNP Aptasensors

Graphene-based materials are actively being investigated as sensing elements for the detection of different analytes. Both graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and graphene oxide (GO) produced by the modified Hummers’ method ar...

High-speed nonlinear focus-induced photoresponse in amorphous silicon photodetectors for ultrasensitive 3D imaging applications

Abstract A large and growing number of applications benefit from simple, fast and highly sensitive 3D imaging sensors. The Focus-Induced Photoresponse (FIP) can achieve 3D sensing functionalities by simply evaluating the irradiance dependen...

Transportation Engineering: Planning and Design

Part 1 Introduction to transportation systems: the transportation system of the United States governmental activity in transportation administrative structure and finance. Part 2 Operation and control of transportation vehicles: operational...