Characterization techniques for nanoparticles: comparison and complementarity upon studying nanoparticle properties

S Mourdikoudis, RM Pallares, NTK Thanh - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanostructures have attracted huge interest as a rapidly growing class of materials for many
applications. Several techniques have been used to characterize the size, crystal structure …

[HTML][HTML] Gold nanoparticles modulate the crosstalk between macrophages and periodontal ligament cells for periodontitis treatment

C Ni, J Zhou, N Kong, T Bian, Y Zhang, X Huang… - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
The regeneration of lost periodontal apparatus in periodontitis treatment remains a clinical
challenge due to the limited regenerative capacity of cementum, periodontal ligament and …

Antibacterial mechanism of gold nanoparticles on Streptococcus pneumoniae

EA Ortiz-Benítez, N Velázquez-Guadarrama… - Metallomics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a causal agent of otitis media, pneumonia, meningitis and
severe cases of septicemia. This human pathogen infects elderly people and children with a …

Mechanisms of aggregation of cysteine functionalized gold nanoparticles

RG Acres, V Feyer, N Tsud, E Carlino… - The Journal of Physical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The interaction of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with cysteine and its derivatives is the basis of
a number of bionanotechnologies, and for these, the most important process is aggregation …

New stereocomplex PLA-based fibers: effect of POSS on polymer functionalization and properties

O Monticelli, M Putti, L Gardella, D Cavallo… - …, 2014 - ACS Publications
In this work, a novel approach for the functionalization of electrospun stereocomplex
polylactide (sc-PLA)-based fibers, prepared from solutions containing equimolar amount of …

Development and characterisation of cysteine-based gold electrodes for the electrochemical biosensing of the SARS-CoV-2 spike antigen

N Olgaç, Y Şahin, L Liv - Analyst, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
This article describes three novel electrochemical biosensing platforms developed to
determine the severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike …

L-Cysteine: A biocompatible, breathable and beneficial coating for graphene oxide

L Mu, Y Gao, X Hu - Biomaterials, 2015 - Elsevier
Graphene oxide (GO) has been employed in various fields, and its ecological and health
risks have attracted much attention. A small and inexpensive biomolecule, l-cysteine, was …

The versatility of gold: From heterogeneous catalysis to biomedicine

E Falletta, M Rossi, C Della Pina - Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
This mini-review is to commemorate prof. Renato Ugo introducing a brief overview of our
research on gold conducted in the same department at Milan University where he worked as …

Effect of gold nanoparticle on structure and fluidity of lipid membrane

AR Mhashal, S Roy - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
This paper deals with the effect of different size gold nanoparticles on the fluidity of lipid
membrane at different regions of the bilayer. To investigate this, we have considered …

Permanent excimer superstructures by supramolecular networking of metal quantum clusters

B Santiago-Gonzalez, A Monguzzi, JM Azpiroz, M Prato… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Excimers are evanescent quasi-particles that typically form during collisional intermolecular
interactions and exist exclusively for their excited-state lifetime. We exploited the distinctive …