Publications associées à Applications of nanotechnology

Nanotechnology enabled modulation of T cell immunity for cancer treatment

Recent breakthroughs in cancer immunotherapy, exemplified by immune checkpoint blockade and CAR T cell therapy, have achieved remarkable clinical success. However, the majority of cancer patients fail to respond to immunotherapy or suffer from relapse. Nan ...

EPFL2023

Broadband spectroscopy and inelastic light scattering on the canted antiferromagnet hematite for antiferromagnetic magnonics

Mohammad Hamdi

Collective spin excitations propagating in magnetically ordered materials are called spin waves (SWs) or magnons. They are promising for low-power and beyond-CMOS information processing, which do not suffer from the ohmic losses. SWs in ferromagnets (antif ...

EPFL2023

Electron Emission Regimes of Planar Nano Vacuum Emitters

Yujia Yang, Alberto Nardi, Marco Turchetti

Recent advancements in nanofabrication have enabled the creation of vacuum electronic devices with nanoscale free-space gaps. These nanoelectronic devices promise the benefits of cold-field emission and transport through free space, such as high nonlineari ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Controlling motion at the nanoscale with light

Mintae Chung

Optical manipulation at the micro- nano-scale is a fascinating topic due to its inherent non-invasive properties and multifaceted applications in various fields such as biology, sensing, micro-fluidics, and micro- nano-robotics. This thesis involves intens ...

EPFL2022

Electronic transport in graphene nanoribbon junctions

Kristians Cernevics

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) - one-dimensional strips of graphene - share many of the exciting properties of graphene, such as ballistic transport over micron dimensions, strength and flexibility, but more importantly, they exhibit a tunable band gap that d ...

EPFL2022

Diamond diffractive optics-recent progress and perspectives

Niels Quack, Gergely Huszka, Sichen Mi, Marcell Kristof Kiss

Diamond is an exceptional material that has recently seen a remarkable increase in interest in academic research and engineering since high-quality substrates became commercially available and affordable. Exploiting the high refractive index, hardness, las ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2021

DNA origami nanostructures for controlled therapeutic drug delivery

Maartje Martina Cornelia Bastings, Jorieke Weiden

DNA nanostructures are emerging as a versatile platform for controlled drug delivery as a result of recent progress in production yield and strategies to obtain prolonged stability in biological environments. The construction of nanostructures from this un ...

2021

Toward Nanotechnology-Enabled Approaches against the COVID-19 Pandemic

Francesco Stellacci

The COVID-19 outbreak has fueled a global demand for effective diagnosis and treatment as well as mitigation of the spread of infection, all through large-scale approaches such as specific alternative antiviral methods and classical disinfection protocols. ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Global uncertainty-sensitivity analysis on mechanistic kinetic models: From model assessment to theory-driven design of nanoparticles

Paul Bowen, Andrea Testino, Mohammad Reza Andalibi, Agnese Carino

Recently, we developed a population balance framework describing the precipitation of calcium-silicate-hydrate, a key nanomaterial in the construction industry and with potential applications in biomedicine, environmental remediation, and catalysis. In thi ...

2020

Electrochemical and morphological engineering of 2D materials for nanopore sensing

Martina Lihter

Nanopores are nanometer-sized holes that were initially proposed for DNA sequencing. Several years ago sequencing was made possible with biological nanopores. However, solid-state nanopores have plenty of advantages to offer compared to their biological co ...

EPFL2020