Materials science & engineering. C, Materials for biological applications
Dec 22, 2018
Innovative methods to detect and kill pathogenic bacteria have a pivotal role in the eradication of infectious diseases and the prevention of the growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The combination of fluorescent carbon dots (FCDs) with silver n...
Materials science & engineering. C, Materials for biological applications
Dec 10, 2018
ZnO nanoparticles have been synthesized using solution combustion technique and its antioxidant, antifungal, anticancer activity was studied. Ricinus communis plant seed extract used as fuel in synthesis by the solution combustion technique. Powder X...
Materials science & engineering. C, Materials for biological applications
Nov 30, 2018
In this study, a drug delivery system for chemo-hyperthermia applications is proposed and fabricated. The delivery system consists of magnetic-silica (MagSi) particles being encapsulated within a pH/thermo-responsive chitosan‑g‑N‑isopropylacrylamide ...
Materials science & engineering. C, Materials for biological applications
Nov 28, 2017
Curcumin (Curc) reacts with zinc di‑iodine (ZnI) in 2:1molar ratio in the presence of an excess of a base triethylamine ((CHCH)N) in methanol (CHOH) solution towards the amorphous solid material of formula [ZnI(Curc)] (1). The complex was characteriz...
Materials science & engineering. C, Materials for biological applications
Dec 28, 2016
Chemotherapy is one of the most commonly used cancer treatments. Even so, it has significant adverse effects on healthy tissues. These effects can be avoided through the use of regional chemotherapy, an approach based on delivering the anti-cancer ag...
Materials science & engineering. C, Materials for biological applications
Dec 23, 2016
The aim of this study was to evaluate the anticancer activity of bioinspired silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) against mouse myoblast cancer cells (CC). Both AgNPs and AuNPs were biologically synthesized using Spinacia olera...
Materials science & engineering. C, Materials for biological applications
Dec 23, 2016
Given the well-known physical properties of graphene oxide (GO), numerous applications for this novel nanomaterial have been recently envisioned to improve the performance of biomedical devices. However, the toxicological assessment of GO, which stro...
Materials science & engineering. C, Materials for biological applications
Dec 14, 2016
This study aimed to develop poly(ε-caprolactone) nanocapsules loaded with indole-3-cabinol (I3C) using rose hip oil (RHO) or medium chain triglycerides (MCT) as oil core. In vitro radical scavenging activity (DPPH method), hemolysis, and antitumor ef...
Materials science & engineering. C, Materials for biological applications
Dec 5, 2016
We have synthesized graphene oxide using improved Hummer's method in order to explore the potential use of the resulting graphene oxide as a nanocarrier for an active anticancer agent, chlorogenic acid (CA). The synthesized graphene oxide and chlorog...
Materials science & engineering. C, Materials for biological applications
Nov 24, 2016
Applying scaffolds as a bed to enhance cell proliferation and even differentiation is one of the treatment of retina diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) which deteriorating photoreceptors and finally happening blindness. In this s...