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Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital Describe New Type of Cancer Therapy (Nationwide Children's Hospital)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Jul 2016
The study published online Monday, July 25, in the journal Pharmaceutical Research describes a novel class of antitumor amphiphilic amines (RCn) based on a tricyclic amine hydrophilic head and a hydrophobic linear alkyl tail of variable length ... Because of the amphiphilic molecular structure of RC16, it self-assembled into micelles in water....

Nanofluid of Janus nanosheets for oil recovery [Applied Physical Sciences]>

Edit PNAS 12 Jul 2016
The current simple nanofluid flooding method for tertiary or enhanced oil recovery is inefficient, especially when used with low nanoparticle concentration. We have designed and produced a nanofluid of graphene-based amphiphilic nanosheets that is very effective at low concentration. Our nanosheets spontaneously approached the oil–water interface and reduced the interfacial... ....

UH Researchers Discover a New Method to Boost Oil Recovery (University of Houston)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Jun 2016
(Source. University of Houston) ... The solution - graphene-based Janus amphiphilic nanosheets - is effective at a concentration of just 0.01 percent, meeting or exceeding the performance of both conventional and other nanotechnology-based fluids, said Zhifeng Ren, MD Anderson Chair professor of physics ... The U.S ... Ren said the solution works in a completely new way ... 'Ours is both,' he said. 'Ours is Janus and also strictly amphiphilic.'....

NDSU researchers win Roon Foundation Award (North Dakota State University)

Edit Public Technologies 20 May 2016
(Source. North Dakota State University). NDSU researchers were awarded the first place Roon Foundation Award at the 2016 American Coatings Association's American Coatings Conference. Teluka P. Galhenage, doctoral candidate and graduate research assistant in the Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials, and co-authors were honored for their paper on poly(ethylene) glycol-modified amphiphilic siloxane polyurethane coatings ... (noodl....

Chemistry PhD Student Honored by NJAS (Seton Hall University)

Edit Public Technologies 10 May 2016
(Source. Seton Hall University). Niki Rana, a PhD student in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Seton Hall received the Graduate and Overall 2016 Senior Academy Research Poster Presentation Award at the New Jersey Academy of Science 61st Annual Meeting hosted by Kean University ... Her research focuses on the development of short amphiphilic peptides that exhibit enhanced cytotoxicity in a selected class of lung cancer cells....

The hydrophobic effect, and fluctuations [Chemistry]>

Edit PNAS 26 Apr 2016
The hydrophobic effect, which is used to describe the aversion of oil for water or the affinity of oily objects for one another in water, plays an important role in diverse disciplines (1). For example, by segregating to the oil–water interface, amphiphilic molecules that possess both hydrophobic and hydrophilic groups... ....

The hydrophobic effect, and fluctuations [Commentaries]>

Edit PNAS 15 Apr 2016
The hydrophobic effect, which is used to describe the aversion of oil for water or the affinity of oily objects for one another in water, plays an important role in diverse disciplines (1). For example, by segregating to the oil–water interface, amphiphilic molecules that possess both hydrophobic and hydrophilic groups... ....

Crystalline polypeptoid nanotubes [Biochemistry]>

Edit PNAS 12 Apr 2016
The folding and assembly of sequence-defined polymers into precisely ordered nanostructures promises a class of well-defined biomimetic architectures with specific function. Amphiphilic diblock copolymers are known to self-assemble in water to form a variety of nanostructured morphologies including spheres, disks, cylinders, and vesicles. In all of these cases, the predominant... ....

Texas A&M; System Researchers Honored For Patents, Innovations (Texas A&M; University)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Apr 2016
... for Actuating and Heating Individual Liquid Droplets.' Zheng Dong Cheng, Abraham Clearfield and Mahboobul 'Sam' Mannan, 'Amphiphilic Nanosheets and Methods of Making the Same.' Hamid Toliyat, 'DC Capacitor-Less Power Converters.' Jinxiang Chai, 'Processing Apparatus and Method for Creating Avatar.' Carl Benner, Karthick Muthu-Manivannan and B....

William Reville: Is there life beyond Earth?

Edit The Irish Times 03 Apr 2016
Two of the largest questions confronting science are ... The Nasa simulations also produce another class of molecules called amphiphiles. long hydrocarbon chains with a water-loving and a water-hating end. In an aqueous environment, these amphiphile molecules self-assemble into membranes with the ends that “like” water on the outside facing water, and the ends that “hate” water buried in the interior of the membrane, away from water ... ....

Marina Biotech Provides 2015 Year-End Financials and Update

Edit Stockhouse 31 Mar 2016
BOTHELL, WA--(Marketwired - Mar 31, 2016) - Marina Biotech, Inc. (OTCQB ... Mr ... Food and Drug Administration ... 07856910.0) which broadly covers SMARTICLES amphoteric liposomes made with a wide range of novel sterol amphiphiles ... Patent allowance in Japan (Pat No 2012-518924) covering lipid assemblies composed of novel imino compounds with a broad range of the charge ratios between the cationic and anionic amphiphiles ... No ... 2015 FINANCIAL RESULTS....

Nature-Inspired Nanotubes That Assemble Themselves, With Precision (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Mar 2016
(Source. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory). Precision meets nano-construction, as seen in this illustration ... (Credit. Berkeley Lab). When it comes to the various nanowidgets scientists are developing, nanotubes are especially intriguing ... (Credit ... The article, 'Self-assembly of crystalline nanotubes from monodisperse amphiphilic diblock copolypeptoid tiles,' will be published in the PNAS Online Early Edition the week of March 28, 2016....

Piggybacking Viruses (San Diego State University)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Mar 2016
(Source. San Diego State University) Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 10 - 11.30am ... His innovative research has helped to illuminate the formation of bilayer membranes as a universal phenomenon not only in aqueous but also in organic solvents for amphiphilic compounds with extensive molecular structures ... Campus Location....
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