Cancer represents one of the main causes of human death in developed countries. Most
current therapies, unfortunately, carry a number of side effects, such as toxicity and damage …

Biological scaffolds with tunable electrical and mechanical properties are of great interest in
many different fields, such as regenerative medicine, biorobotics and biosensing. In this …

Publications concerning research on unique material made of carbon nanotubes (CNTs)
aligned perpendicular to the substrate surface, namely, CNT forest, are analyzed and …

Nanolithographically patterned copper rings were synthesized, and the self-assembly of the
rings into ordered nanoparticle/nanodrop arrays was accomplished via nanosecond pulsed …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the delivery of DNA by various physical
methods such as electroporation (EP), sonoporation, microinjection, particle bombardment …

Transient transformation in plants is a useful process for evaluating gene function. However,
there is a scarcity of minimally perturbing methods for gene delivery that can be used on …

Medical Coatings and Deposition Technologies is an important new addition to the libraries
of medical device designers and manufacturers. Coatings enable the properties of the …

This study presents the synthesis and characterization of a hybrid material consisting of
nitrogen-doped nanocarbons. A remarkable material architecture was achieved by the …

Electrospinning is one of the most successful means of producing nanofibers with enormous
application potential. New methods of producing nanofibers without high voltages are …

A numerical growth model is used to describe the catalyzed growth of carbon nanofibers in
the sheath of a low-temperature plasma. Using the model, the effects of variation in the …