nanoreactors – TechConnect Briefs

Stable Magnetic Isotopes as New Trend in Nanonuclear Biotechnology

Koltover V., Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, RU

With dimensions of the order of tens angstroms, biomolecular devices are assigned, in modern terminology, to objects of “nanophysics”. At the same time, all of them are composed from chemical elements many of which have [...]

Confinement Chemistry in Self-Assembling Polymer-Metal Nanoreactors

McTaggart M., Malardier-Jugroot C., Royal Military College of Canada, CA

We have developed and thoroughly characterized stable polymer-metal nanocomposite reactor systems with hydrophobic inner surfaces 2-3 nm apart. Previous work has shown that energetically unfavourable reactions, namely pyrrole polymerization and metal salt reduction, spontaneously occur [...]

Reliability in Nano-Engineering: Nuclear Spin of Magnesium-25 as Reliability Factor in Molecular and Biomolecular Nanoreactors

Koltover V.K., Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, RU

The trend of nanoscaling brings engineering down to the dimensions of molecular structures. However, it poses the problem of how to create a reliable system from molecular components which experience permanent thermal and environmental fluctuations. [...]

Smart Silver Nanoparticles from Nanoreactors made by Invertible Polyesters

Voronov A., Kohut A., Peukert W., Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE

A simple way to prepare uniform amphiphilic silver nanoparticles in concentrated solutions of an invertible polyester is developed. The mobility of polymer fragments increases by dissolving of the polyester in benzene. Experimental data show that [...]

Development of a Novel Triblock Copolymer Therapeutic Nanoreactor

Ranquin A., De Vocht C., Meier W., Steyaert J., Van Gelder P., VUB, BE

Currently chemotherapy is one of the major strategies to treat cancer patients. It is however limited by several drawbacks such as low bioavailability of chemotoxins, low drug concentrations at the tumor site, systemic toxicity, lack [...]