Nuclear medicine is expected to make major advances in cancer diagnosis and therapy;
tumor-targeted radiopharmaceuticals preferentially eradicate tumors while causing minimal …

This review describes promising laser-based approaches to produce silicon nanostructures,
including laser ablation of solid Si targets in residual gases and liquids and laser pyrolysis of …

Diatoms are unicellular photosynthetic algae enclosed in porous 3D nanopatterned silica
enclosures called “frustules.” The diatom frustules are made from biosilica self‐assembled …

Specific design and optimization of the configuration of micro-scale materials can effectively
enhance battery performance, including volumetric density. Herein, we employed …

Abstract Silicon (Si) nanoparticles (NPs) synthesized by methods of laser ablation in water
are explored as sensitizers of photothermal therapy under a laser excitation in the window of …

An ultrashort laser-assisted method for fast production of concentrated aqueous solutions of
ultrapure Si-based colloidal nanoparticles is reported. The method profits from the 3D …

We employ a method of femtosecond laser fragmentation of preliminarily prepared water-
dispersed microcolloids to fabricate aqueous solutions of ultrapure bare Si-based …

Porous silicon nanoparticles have been established as excellent candidates for medical
applications as drug delivery devices, due to their excellent biocompatibility …

Presenting a safe alternative to conventional compound quantum dots and other functional
nanostructures, nanosilicon can offer a series of breakthrough hyperthermia‐based …

Current development of drug microcarriers is mainly based on spherical shapes, which are
not biologically favorable geometries for complex interactions with biological systems …