Joshua A Welsh, Deborah C. I. Goberdhan, Lorraine O’Driscoll, Edit I. Buzás et al.
Extracellular vesicles (EVs), through their complex cargo, can reflect the state of their cell of origin and change the functions and phenotypes of other cells. These features indicate strong biomarker and therapeutic potential and have generated broad interest, as evidenced by the steady year-on-ye...
Saikat Mitra, Arka Chakraborty, Abu Montakim Tareq, Talha Bin Emran et al.
Heavy metals are well-known environmental pollutants owing to their toxicity, longevity in the atmosphere, and ability to accumulate in the human body via bioaccumulation. The pollution of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems with toxic heavy metals is a major environmental concern that has consequenc...
H. P. S. Abdul Khalil, Yalda Davoudpour, Nazrul Islam, Asniza Mustapha et al.
Nanofibrillated cellulose from biomass has recently gained attention owing to their biodegradable nature, low density, high mechanical properties, economic value and renewability. Although they still suffer from two major drawbacks. The first challenge is the exploration of raw materials and its app...
M. A. S. R. Saadi, Alianna Maguire, Neethu Pottackal, Md Shajedul Hoque Thakur et al.
Additive manufacturing (AM) has gained significant attention due to its ability to drive technological development as a sustainable, flexible, and customizable manufacturing scheme. Among the various AM techniques, direct ink writing (DIW) has emerged as the most versatile 3D printing technique for ...
Yifen Shang, Md. Kamrul Hasan, Golam Jalal Ahammed, Mengqi Li et al.
In the era of climate change, global agricultural systems are facing numerous, unprecedented challenges. In order to achieve food security, advanced nano-engineering is a handy tool for boosting crop production and assuring sustainability. Nanotechnology helps to improve agricultural production by i...
Mahmuda Akter, Md. Tajuddin Sikder, Md. Mostafizur Rahman, A. K. M. Atique Ullah et al.
With the development of nanotechnology, silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) have become one of the most in-demand nanoparticles owing to their exponential number of uses in various sectors. The increased use of Ag-NPs-enhanced products may result in an increased level of toxicity affecting both the enviro...
Emanuel Fleige, Mohiuddin Quadir, Rainer Haag
The use of polymeric nanocarriers to transport active compounds like small-molecular drugs, peptides, or genes found an increased attention throughout the different fields of natural sciences. Not only that these nanocarriers enhance the properties of already existing drugs in terms of solubility, b...
Sarwar Hossen, M. Khalid Hossain, Mohammad Khairul Basher, M.N.H. Mia et al.
Nonspecific distribution and uncontrollable release of drugs in conventional drug delivery systems (CDDSs) have led to the development of smart nanocarrier-based drug delivery systems, which are also known as Smart Drug Delivery Systems (SDDSs). SDDSs can deliver drugs to the target sites with reduc...
Duncan Q.M. Craig
Solid dispersions in water-soluble carriers have attracted considerable interest as a means of improving the dissolution rate, and hence possibly bioavailability, of a range of hydrophobic drugs. However, despite the publication of numerous original papers and reviews on the subject, the mechanisms ...
Mingzheng Ge, Chunyan Cao, Jianying Huang, Shuhui Li et al.
State-of-the-art development of fabrication methods and surface engineering strategies of 1D TiO<sub>2</sub>nanostructures is reviewed, and an overview given of their potential applications including pollutant degradation/CO<sub>2</sub>photoreduction photocatalysts, water splitting, solar cells, lit...
Md. Saifur Rahman, Md. Saif Hasan, Ashis Sutradhar Nitai, Sunghyun Nam et al.
Carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) is one of the most promising cellulose derivatives. Due to its characteristic surface properties, mechanical strength, tunable hydrophilicity, viscous properties, availability and abundance of raw materials, low-cost synthesis process, and likewise many contrasting aspe...
Taotao Li, Wei Guo, Liang Ma, Weisheng Li et al.
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, in particular transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), have attracted great interest in extending Moore's law beyond silicon 1-3 . However, despite extensive efforts 4-25 , the growth of wafer-scale TMDC single crystals on scalable and industry-compatible substr...
Md. Sajibul Alam Bhuyan, Md. Nizam Uddin, Md. Maksudul Islam, Ferdaushi Alam Bipasha et al.
Graphene, a two-dimensional material of sp2 hybridization carbon atoms, has fascinated much attention in recent years owing to its extraordinary electronic, optical, magnetic, thermal, and mechanical properties as well as large specific surface area. For the tremendous application of graphene in nan...
Shuaihua Lu, Qionghua Zhou, Yixin Ouyang, Yilv Guo et al.
Rapidly discovering functional materials remains an open challenge because the traditional trial-and-error methods are usually inefficient especially when thousands of candidates are treated. Here, we develop a target-driven method to predict undiscovered hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (HOIPs)...
Shafiqul Islam, M. A. Rahman Bhuiyan, Md. Nurul Islam