Recent progress in cancer cell membrane-based nanoparticles for biomedical applications

• Qixiong Lin,
• Yueyou Peng,
• Yanyan Wen,
• Xiaoqiong Li,
• Donglian Du,
• Weibin Dai,
• Wei Tian and
• Yanfeng Meng

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 262–279, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.24

• technology, many challenges still need to be addressed for further application in medical diagnosis and therapy. Biomimetic nanotechnology using cancer cell membranes is still in its infancy. The mechanisms of the intricate functions of numerous types of proteins on the surface of cancer cell membranes need

Frequency-dependent nanomechanical profiling for medical diagnosis

• Santiago D. Solares and
• Alexander X. Cartagena-Rivera

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1483–1489, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.122

• mechanical changes in the affected tissues. Keywords: atomic force microscopy; healthcare; mechanical properties; mechanobiology; medical diagnosis; Introduction Since its invention in the early 1980s, atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been extensively used for topographical, mechanical, electrical, and

• nanomechanical measurements into medical diagnosis, which includes specialized in vivo sensing, computer analysis (AFM force spectroscopy analysis), communication with the healthcare provider, and mining of the aggregate community database. Given the mechanical nature of AFM, the above strategy naturally fits

• careful coordination to ensure that the various teams synergistically communicate with one another. Nevertheless, we believe that such efforts are worthwhile for improving medical diagnosis and follow-up, and for augmenting overall scientific medical knowledge, and encourage researchers and funding

Studies of probe tip materials by atomic force microscopy: a review

• Ke Xu and
• Yuzhe Liu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1256–1267, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.104

• nanotubes and functional nanomaterials, will significantly improve the performance of probes and further promote the broader and deeper application of SPM. It will significantly impact society in life science, drug discovery, and medical diagnosis. Sharpening of a blunt tip and study of its stability after

Recent advances in green carbon dots (2015–2022): synthesis, metal ion sensing, and biological applications

• Aisha Kanwal,
• Naheed Bibi,
• Sajjad Hyder,
• Arif Muhammad,
• Hao Ren,
• Jiangtao Liu and
• Zhongli Lei

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1068–1107, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.93

• , wheat straw, and rice straw by Ding et al. These CDs were utilized to detect Fe3+, which could be useful in areas of environmental remediation and medical diagnosis [77]. A hydrothermal technique employing near-critical water has been utilized recently to develop a simple, cost-effective, and

Morphology-driven gas sensing by fabricated fractals: A review

• Vishal Kamathe and
• Rupali Nagar

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 1187–1208, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.88

• areas ranging from food packaging to medical diagnosis. Fractals can also help in mimicking the wound healing process as tissue grows to connect the torn skin across the wound and offer an insight into microfluids as part of wound healing management. Besides application-oriented research the

The role of convolutional neural networks in scanning probe microscopy: a review

• Ido Azuri,
• Irit Rosenhek-Goldian,
• Neta Regev-Rudzki,
• Georg Fantner and
• Sidney R. Cohen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 878–901, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.66

Recent progress in actuation technologies of micro/nanorobots

• Ke Xu and
• Bing Liu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 756–765, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.59

• biomedical fields, such as medical diagnosis, nanoscale surgery, and targeted therapy. In this article, recent progress on micro/nanorobots is reviewed regarding actuation technologies. First, the different actuation mechanisms are divided into two types, external field actuation and self-actuation. Then, a

Nanogenerator-based self-powered sensors for data collection

• Yicheng Shao,
• Maoliang Shen,
• Yuankai Zhou,
• Xin Cui,
• Lijie Li and
• Yan Zhang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 680–693, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.54

• -powered sensors in data-driven intelligent systems are proposed. Review Human physiological data collection based on self-powered sensors Self-powered wearable sensors and electronic skin Self-powered wearable sensors to collect human motion data can provide a data set for medical diagnosis and

Free and partially encapsulated manganese ferrite nanoparticles in multiwall carbon nanotubes

• Saja Al-Khabouri,
• Salim Al-Harthi,
• Toru Maekawa,
• Mohamed E. Elzain,
• Ashraf Al-Hinai,
• Ahmed D. Al-Rawas,
• Abbsher M. Gismelseed,
• Ali A. Yousif and
• Myo Tay Zar Myint

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1891–1904, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.170

• materials have the potential to be used for the transport of drugs to specific locations in the body as well as in medical diagnosis without the need for surgical interference [6]. Pal et al. synthesized Fe3O4 encapsulated in carbon nanostraws and reported an enhancement in the magnetic properties, which

Selective detection of complex gas mixtures using point contacts: concept, method and tools

• Alexander P. Pospelov,
• Victor I. Belan,
• Dmytro O. Harbuz,
• Volodymyr L. Vakula,
• Lyudmila V. Kamarchuk,
• Yuliya V. Volkova and
• Gennadii V. Kamarchuk

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1631–1643, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.146

• methods based on the concept of marker identification. However, this approach has a significant drawback since the processes happening in complex gaseous media are highly dynamic. Therefore, it negatively impacts the efficacy of medical diagnosis. In the breath, there is a high possibility of interactions

• formed as a result of these interactions can be catalysts for new chemical reactions. This leads to a change in the original state of the breath, which may cause false-positive or false-negative results in medical diagnosis [27][28]. This problem has motivated the development of an alternative approach

Experimental study of an evanescent-field biosensor based on 1D photonic bandgap structures

• Jad Sabek,
• Francisco Javier Díaz-Fernández,
• Luis Torrijos-Morán,
• Zeneida Díaz-Betancor,
• Ángel Maquieira,
• María-José Bañuls,
• Elena Pinilla-Cienfuegos and
• Jaime García-Rupérez

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 967–974, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.97

• been demonstrated for several applications such as medical diagnosis, environmental monitoring or security control [4]. Most typical configurations of integrated photonic biosensors are based on the use of resonant or interferometric configurations, as it is the case of ring resonators or disks and

Commercial polycarbonate track-etched membranes as substrates for low-cost optical sensors

• Paula Martínez-Pérez and
• Jaime García-Rupérez

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 677–683, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.67

• interest in medical diagnosis, security, biodefense or industrial procedures, among other fields of application. For the design and fabrication of these sensing devices, huge efforts have been made in recent years to develop different transducers suitable for each application. According to the transducer

Multiwalled carbon nanotube hybrids as MRI contrast agents

• Nikodem Kuźnik and
• Mateusz M. Tomczyk

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1086–1103, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.102

• Nikodem Kuznik Mateusz M. Tomczyk Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, M. Strzody 9, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland 10.3762/bjnano.7.102 Abstract Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the most commonly used tomography techniques in medical diagnosis due to the non-invasive

• industry. Medical diagnosis additionally benefits from contrast agents (CAs) in the MRI technique via additionally administered formulations, thus leading to enhanced sensitivity by highlighting particular objects in the images; the potential identification of pathologies may result in earlier tumor

• % signal intensity enhancement caused by the hybrids. For medical diagnosis, 10% signal enhancement is already sufficient to observe a visually significant contrast. PEI/PSS/oMWCNT#Yin hybrids were tested on HeLa cells and compared to hybrids functionalized additionally with FA [34]. Since HeLa cells

NO gas sensing at room temperature using single titanium oxide nanodot sensors created by atomic force microscopy nanolithography

• Li-Yang Hong and
• Heh-Nan Lin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1044–1051, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.97

• recent years, gas sensors have been widely used in a variety of fields, such as medical diagnosis [1][2], environmental monitoring [3] and combustion emission control [4]. Among all types of gas sensors, resistor-type gas sensors based on semiconducting metal oxide nanomaterials [5][6][7][8] are more

Tight junction between endothelial cells: the interaction between nanoparticles and blood vessels

• Yue Zhang and
• Wan-Xi Yang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 675–684, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.60

• considered. Future Perspectives As nanomedicine gradually presents it advantages in medical diagnosis and therapy, the public becomes more and more concerned about their unknown adverse effects on the human body. Many medical researches regard nanoparticles as an extremely suitable material for drug delivery

Surface-site reactivity in small-molecule adsorption: A theoretical study of thiol binding on multi-coordinated gold clusters

• Elvis C. M. Ting,
• Tatiana Popa and
• Irina Paci

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 53–61, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.6

• Elvis C. M. Ting Tatiana Popa Irina Paci Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8W 3V6, Canada 10.3762/bjnano.7.6 Abstract Background: The adsorption of organic molecules on metal surfaces has a broad array of applications, from device engineering to medical diagnosis

Green and energy-efficient methods for the production of metallic nanoparticles

• Mitra Naghdi,
• Mehrdad Taheran,
• Satinder K. Brar,
• M. Verma,
• R. Y. Surampalli and
• J. R. Valero

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2354–2376, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.243

• chemists [81]. Synthesis and stabilization of NPs from bio-compatible materials is of high importance for their applications in medical diagnosis and therapeutics [87]. Among the vast number of available natural raw materials, polysaccharides and biologically active products extracted from plants provide

Synthesis, characterization and in vitro biocompatibility study of Au/TMC/Fe₃O₄ nanocomposites as a promising, nontoxic system for biomedical applications

• Hanieh Shirazi,
• Maryam Daneshpour,
• Soheila Kashanian and
• Kobra Omidfar

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1677–1689, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.170

• systems by manipulating the molecular and atomic dimensions at the nanoscale. Nowadays, due to its widespread applications in various fields of science and technology (e.g., food industry, pharmaceutics, medical diagnosis, biotechnology, electronics, communication, transportation, energy, environment

• as catalysis, electronics, photonics, sensors, microfluidic lateral flow devices, medical diagnosis, and related sciences [6][7][8][9][10]. One of the most important classes of metal nanoparticles are magnetic nanoparticles. Due to their unique properties, such as magnetic resonance momentum, super

Silica micro/nanospheres for theranostics: from bimodal MRI and fluorescent imaging probes to cancer therapy

• Shanka Walia and
• Amitabha Acharya

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 546–558, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.57

• ; organic dyes; quantum dots; silica nanospheres; theranostics; Review 1 Introduction In the modern era of medical diagnosis, X-rays have long played a major role in the clinical imaging of anatomical details of disease sites [1]. However, the development of suitable molecular diagnostic systems for

• stages of growth and, thus, plays an integral part in medical diagnosis. All the currently available diagnostic imaging methods have their intrinsic advantages and disadvantages. The combination of multimodal imaging and theranostics will lead to cutting-edge technologies in which the potential of the