Comprehensive review of preclinical evaluation strategies for COVID-19 vaccine candidates: assessing immunogenicity, toxicology, and safety profiles by Delaram Doroud, Mojtaba Daneshi, Fatemeh Kazemi-Lomedash, Zohre Eftekhari

“…Evaluating their biodistribution is crucial for newly developed vaccines, such as lipid nanoparticles –messenger RNA (LNP-mRNA), DNA, and Viral vectors in non-replicated (VVnr), or recombinant virus vaccines. …”
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Structural Characterizations of Palladium Clusters Prepared by Polyol Reduction of [PdCl4]2− Ions by Loredana Schiavo, Lucrezia Aversa, Roberta Tatti, Roberto Verucchi, Gianfranco Carotenuto

“…Palladium nanoparticles are of great interest in many industrial fields, ranging from catalysis and hydrogen technology to microelectronics, thanks to their unique physical and chemical properties. …”
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Fabrication of Core-Shell PLGA-Chitosan Microparticles Using Electrospinning: Effects of Polymer Concentration by Nguyen Thi Hiep, Nguyen Dai Hai, Vo Van Toi

“…However, the advantage of this system is that we can fabricate either micro/nanofibers or micro/nanoparticles. To learn about the effect of liquid concentration, the electrospinning parameters (voltage, needle sizes, distance from needle to collector, and ejection speed) were fixed while the concentration of PLGA or chitosan was varied. …”
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Zincophilic CuO as electron sponge to facilitate dendrite-free zinc-based flow battery by Jin Seong Cha, Sanghyeon Park, Noh-Uk Seo, Yun-Chan Kang, Chan-Woo Lee, Jung Hoon Yang

“…Herein, we reveal that zinc electrodeposition behaviors dramatically improved through the introduction of highly zincophilic copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs). Strong electronic redistribution between Zn and CuO explains the high Zn affinity on CuO, with negligible nucleation overpotential. …”
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Preparation and Characterization of Visible-Light-Activated Fe-N Co-Doped TiO2 and Its Photocatalytic Inactivation Effect on Leukemia Tumors by Kangqiang Huang, Li Chen, Jianwen Xiong, Meixiang Liao

“…The experimental results showed that the growth of leukemic HL60 cells was significantly inhibited in groups treated with TiO2 nanoparticles and the photocatalytic activity of Fe-N-TiO2 was significantly higher than that of Fe-TiO2 and N-TiO2, indicating that the photocatalytic efficiency could be effectively enhanced by the modification of Fe-N. …”
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Experimental Characterization, Computational Investigation, and Structure-propertyeactivity Relationship Studies of Nickel Ferrite Nanostructures by Ali Ben Ahmed

“…These analyses confirmed the formation of single-phase nickel ferrite nanoparticles in the range 8e14 nm. The principal quantum chemical descriptors have been analyzed and discussed. …”
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A Suitable Polysulfide Electrolyte for CdSe Quantum Dot-Sensitized Solar Cells by H. K. Jun, M. A. Careem, A. K. Arof

“…Inclusion of small amount of TiO2 nanoparticles into the electrolyte helps to stabilize the polysulfide electrolyte and thereby improve the stability of the CdSe QDSSC. …”
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Enhanced Photocatalytic Degradation and Mineralization of Furfural Using UVC/TiO2/GAC Composite in Aqueous Solution by Bahram Ghasemi, Bagher Anvaripour, Sahand Jorfi, Neematollah Jaafarzadeh

“…Titanium dioxide nanoparticles were immobilized on granular activated carbon (GAC) as a porous and low-density support for photocatalytic degradation of furfural. …”
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The Role of Polyphenols in Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Their Antioxidant Properties to Scavenge Reactive Oxygen Species and Free Radicals by Muhammad Junaid Rao, Bingsong Zheng

“…We discussed how various abiotic stresses, including heat and chilling stress, drought, salinity, light stress, UV radiation, nanoparticles stress, chemical stress, and heavy metal toxicity, modulate phenylpropanoid metabolism and trigger the accumulation of specific polyphenolic compounds. …”
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Synthesis and Structural Investigation of Erbium-Doped ZnWO4 Nanocrystals by Forough Zunia, Morteza Raeisi, Sanaz Alamdari, Nooshin Heydarian Dehkordi

“…FE-SEM results revealed that the prepared nanoparticles have a spherical morphology with an average size of 140 nm. …”
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Modalities for Imaging of Prostate Cancer by A. H. Hou, D. Swanson, A. B. Barqawi

“…We also review several promising techniques on the horizon, including Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI, Diffuse-Weighted Imaging, Superparamagnetic Nanoparticles, and Radionuclide Scintigraphy.…”
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Aloe Vera Extract-Mediated CuO NPs as Catalysts for the Synthesis of 4-Hydroxy-3-Methoxybenzaldehyde-Connected Piperidine Derivatives and Their Antibacterial Activity by Ponnusamy Packialakshmi, Perumal Gobinath, Anis Ahamed, Hissah Abdulrahman Alodaini, Ashraf Atef Hatamleh, Mohamed Taha Yassin, Akbar Idhayadhulla, Radhakrishnan Surendrakumar

“…Using a green chemistry strategy using copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) as a catalyst, a unique one-pot synthesis of Schiff base vanillin-linked piperidine derivatives (2, 2a-2j) may be generated, with a potential yield in a short reaction time. …”
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Photocatalytic Degradation of 2,4-Dichlorophenol by TiO2 Intercalated Talc Nanocomposite by Manqing Ai, Wenli Qin, Tian Xia, Ying Ye, Xuegang Chen, Pingping Zhang

“…Novel nanocomposites have been prepared by intercalating TiO2 nanoparticles into talc. The nanocomposites have been verified by X-ray diffraction (XRD) from the appearance of a characteristic diffraction peak of TiO2. …”
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Synthesis and Thermal Adsorption Characteristics of Silver-Based Hybrid Nanocomposites for Automotive Friction Material Application by R. Venkatesh, P. Sakthivel, M. Vivekanandan, C. Ramesh Kannan, J. Phani Krishna, S. Dhanabalan, T. Thirugnanasambandham, Manaye Majora

“…The present research is to develop silver-based hybrid nanocomposites containing alumina (Al2O3) and silicon carbide (SiC) nanoparticles of 50 nm mixing with the ratio of 0 wt% Al2O3/0 wt% SiC, 5 wt% Al2O3/0 wt% SiC, and 5 wt% Al2O3/5 wt% SiC via the semisolid vacuum stir-cast technique. …”
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3D Bioprinting Strategies for Melatonin‐Loaded Polymers in Bone Tissue Engineering by Damla Aykora, Ayhan Oral, Cemre Aydeğer, Metehan Uzun

“…In addition to advanced surgical and graft techniques, polymer‐based biomaterials, bioactive glass, chitosan, hydrogels, nanoparticles, and cell‐derived exosomes are used for bone healing strategies. …”
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Plant-Derived Anti-Cancer Therapeutics and Biopharmaceuticals by Ghyda Murad Hashim, Mehdi Shahgolzari, Kathleen Hefferon, Afagh Yavari, Srividhya Venkataraman

“…Also addressed are plant-derived anti-cancer vaccines, nanoparticles, monoclonal antibodies, and immunotherapies. …”
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Coupling mechanisms of plasmon resonance and Bi3+ emission in YAG: Bi, Ce, Yb epitaxial films at low temperatures by Markiyan Kushlyk, Yaroslav Shpotyuk, Volodymyr Tsiumra, Yaroslav Zhydachevskyy, Lev-Ivan Bulyk, Volodymyr Haiduchok, Ihor Syvorotka, Dmytro Sugak, Matej Baláž, Andrzej Suchocki

“…Abstract This paper is devoted to the investigation of the plasmonic effect of metal nanoparticles (NPs) formed on the surface of the YAG: Bi, Ce, Yb phosphors in a temperature range between 4 and 300 K. …”
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Thermal Performance of a Dimpled Tube Parabolic Trough Solar Collector (PTSC) with SiO2 Nanofluid by M. Arun, Debabrata Barik, K. P. Sridhar, Milon Selvam Dennison

“…For this purpose, SiO2 was mixed with deionized (DI) water using an ultrasonic dispersion device to prepare the nanofluids (SiO2/DI-H2O). The size of the nanoparticle was in the range of 10-15 nm. Different volume concentrations of the nanoparticles in the range of 0.1% to 0.5%, in steps of 0.1%, were chosen to prepare the nanofluids to carry out the experiments. …”
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Spermine Significantly Increases the Transfection Efficiency of Cationic Polymeric Gene Vectors by Yue Lv, Jiaoqin Xue, Pengfei Cui, Lin Qiu

“…Mechanistic inquiries studies also disclosed that spermine augments the endosomal escape capability of PEI carriers without altering pathways involved in the cellular uptake of gene nanoparticles, thereby facilitating heightened gene expression. …”
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Enhancement of Heat Transfer Using Water/Graphene Nanofluid and the Impact of Passive Techniques—Experimental, Numerical, and ML Approaches by Javed Syed

“…This study also highlights the potential aggregation and flow resistance limitations when combining nanoparticles with passive inserts. The experimental outcomes for the convergent nozzle insert are employed to validate the supervised machine learning model. …”
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