One scientist would like to put sand into your computer. Not beach sand, but silicon dioxide nanoparticles coated with a high dielectric constant polymer to inexpensively provide improved cooling for ...

These microadditives enhance color, flavor and freshness. But what do they do in the body? It seemed like a small thing when Paul Westerhoff’s 8-year-old son appeared, with his tongue and lips coated ...

A nanoparticle’s safety is often determined by its toxicity on the human body. Toxicity can be defined in several ways, and it is not only the toxicity of the nanoparticle that is important but also ...

Fluorescing nanoparticles are helpful tools for biological imaging, allowing researchers to spot hard-to-see phenomena through a microscope by lighting up when hit with laser light at the correct ...

What is Colloidal Silicon Dioxide? Colloidal silicon dioxide, in other terms known as ‘colloidal silica’, is a polymeric form of silicon. The non-toxic, naturally occurring element silicon is listed ...

New technology combing therapeutic agents and diagnostics (theranostics) can be used to deliver drugs to cancer cells. From the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, scientists demonstrate how ...