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Substrate stiffness effect on molecular crosstalk of epithelial-mesenchymal transition mediators of human glioblastoma cells

Bernadette Basilico, Ilaria Elena Palamà, Stefania D’Amone, Clotilde Lauro et al. • Frontiers in Oncology (2022)

The complexity of the microenvironment effects on cell response, show accumulating evidence that glioblastoma (GBM) migration and invasiveness are influenced by the mechanical rigidity of their surroundings. The epithelial–mesenchymal trans...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2022.983507

Proteoliposomes – a system to study membrane proteins under buffer gradients by cryo-EM

Sejwal Kushal, Chami Mohamed, Baumgartner Paul, Kowal Julia et al. • Nanotechnology Reviews (2017)

Membrane proteins are vital to life and major therapeutic targets. Yet, understanding how they function is limited by a lack of structural information. In biological cells, membrane proteins reside in lipidic membranes and typically experie...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1515/ntrev-2016-0081

Synergistic heterojunction effects in Ag3PO4/SnO2 nanocomposites: a photocatalytic study on isoproturon degradation

Rishi Ram, Bhawna, Sanjeev Kumar, Akanksha Gupta et al. • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (2025)

IntroductionPesticides such as isoproturon are widely employed and represent a considerable environmental concern. The development of sustainable and efficient degrading techniques is crucial. Photocatalytic degradation employing semiconduc...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2025.1458965

Emerging nanomaterials for novel wound dressings: From metallic nanoparticles and MXene nanosheets to metal-organic frameworks

Gholamreza Faghani, Amir Azarniya • Heliyon (2024)

The growing need for developing reliable and efficient wound dressings has led to recent progress in designing novel materials and formulations for different kinds of wounds caused by traumas, burns, surgeries, and diabetes. In cases of ext...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e39611

The Water-Based Synthesis of Platinum Nanoparticles Using KrF Excimer Laser Ablation

Oana Andreea Lazar, Călin Constantin Moise, Anastas Savov Nikolov, Laura-Bianca Enache et al. • Nanomaterials (2022)

Our work presents, for the first time, a comprehensive study of the synthesis of fully metallic platinum nanoparticles (Pt-NPs) involving the ablation process in double distilled water using a KrF excimer laser. To obtain detailed informati...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/nano12030348

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

Andreas Bablich, Maurice Müller, Paul Kienitz, Rainer Bornemann et al. • Scientific Reports (2022)

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-14330-7

How interdisciplinary is nanotechnology?

Alan L. Porter, Jan Youtie • Journal of Nanoparticle Research (2009)

Facilitating cross-disciplinary research has attracted much attention in recent years, with special concerns in nanoscience and nanotechnology. Although policy discourse has emphasized that nanotechnology is substantively integrative, some ...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-009-9607-0 PMC: 2988207

Nanotechnology

Vincent W. Hoyt, Eileen Mason • ACS Chemical Health & Safety (2007)

Although research in nanotechnology continues apace, relatively little is known about the subsequent health effects of exposure to nanoparticles. Major research efforts are underway both in the US and abroad to characterize the risks of suc...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchas.2007.07.015

Expectations and the Emergence of Nanotechnology

Cynthia L. Selin • Science Technology & Human Values (2007)

Although nanotechnology is often defined as operations on the 10 -9 meters, the lack of charisma in the scale-bound definitions has been fortified by remarkable dreams and alluring promises that spark excitement for nanotechnology. The stor...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243906296918

Innovations in nanotechnology for water treatment

Ilka Gehrke, Andreas Geiser, Annette Somborn • Nanotechnology Science and Applications (2015)

Important challenges in the global water situation, mainly resulting from worldwide population growth and climate change, require novel innovative water technologies in order to ensure a supply of drinking water and reduce global water poll...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc DOI: https://doi.org/10.2147/nsa.s43773 PMC: 4294021

Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology

Joel Cummings • Reference Reviews (2013)

Society that has become one of the twentieth-century classic science lectures, titled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom."He presented a technological vision of extreme miniaturization in 1959, several years before the word "chip" became...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/09504121311320189

Nanotechnology-Based Cosmeceuticals

Alka Lohani, Anurag Kumar Verma, Himanshi Joshi, Niti Yadav et al. • ISRN Dermatology (2014)

Cosmeceuticals are the fastest growing segment of the personal care industry, and a number of topical cosmeceutical treatments for conditions such as photoaging, hyperpigmentation, wrinkles, and hair damage have come into widespread use. In...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/843687 PMC: 4055113

Nanotechnology and Cancer

James R. Heath, Mark E. Davis • Annual Review of Medicine (2007)

The biological picture of cancer is rapidly advancing from models built from phenomenological descriptions to network models derived from systems biology, which can capture the evolving pathophysiology of the disease at the molecular level....

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.med.59.061506.185523 PMC: 3706454

Nota sobre la taxonomía de Microtus (Iberomys) (Arvicolinae, Rodentia) del Pleistoceno superior de la Gruta do Caldeirão (Tomar, Portugal) e interpretación paleoclimática de la asociación de roedores

J. M. López-García, L. Póvoas, J. Zilhão • Estudios Geologicos (2020)

Gruta do Caldeirão es un yacimiento arqueológico en cueva situado en Tomar (Portugal, oeste de la península Ibérica), que contiene una importante secuencia perteneciente al Pleistoceno superior, adscrita culturalmente al Paleolítico medio (...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3989/egeol.43622.542

Excess protein enabled dog domestication during severe Ice Age winters

Maria Lahtinen, David Clinnick, Kristiina Mannermaa, J. Sakari Salonen et al. • Scientific Reports (2021)

Abstract Dogs (Canis familiaris) are the first animals to be domesticated by humans and the only ones domesticated by mobile hunter-gatherers. Wolves and humans were both persistent, pack hunters of large prey. They were species competing o...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-78214-4

Characterization of Ancient Tripitaka

Y. X. Gong, L. Geng, D. C. Gong • The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (2015)

Tripitaka is the world’s most comprehensive version of Buddhist sutra. There are limited numbers of Tripitaka currently preserved, most of them present various patterns of degradation. As little is known about the materials and crafts used...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-5-W7-159-2015

Review of Novum Inventorium Sepulchrale: Kentish Anglo-Saxon Graves and Grave Goods in the Sonia Chadwick Hawkes Archive (Online Digital Corpus)

Tara-Jane Sutcliffe • Internet Archaeology (2008)

In 2007, the year in which the Society of Antiquaries of London celebrated its tercentenary, what more fitting tribute to those industrious individuals than that their work be made accessible to a new generation of students. One means was b...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.11141/ia.23.6

Resiliência do devir

Maria Cristina Oliveira Bruno, Fabiana Comerlato, Carlos Alberto Santos Costa, Paulo Otávio de Laia et al. • Revista de Arqueologia (2020)

O presente artigo apresenta diferentes narrativas sobre os trajetos da Rede de Museus e Acervos Arqueológicos e Etnográficos (REMAAE) no país, criada em 2008. Por meio da coleta de relatos e informações de diversas ordens entre suas/seus co...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.24885/sab.v33i3.844