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N-(3-oxododecanoyl)-L-homoserine lactone interactions in the breast tumor microenvironment: Implications for breast cancer viability and proliferation in vitro

Balhouse, Brittany N.; Patterson, Logan; Schmelz, Eva M.; Slade, Daniel J.; Verbridge, Scott (PLOS, 2017-07-10)

It is well documented that the tumor microenvironment profoundly impacts the etiology and progression of breast cancer, yet the contribution of the resident microbiome within breast tissue remains poorly understood. Tumor ...

Nano Silica and Metakaolin Effects on the Behavior of Concrete Containing Rubber Crumbs

Chalangaran, Navid; Farzampour, Alireza; Paslar, Nima (MDPI, 2020-11-08)

The excessive production of worn tires remaining from the transportation system and the lack of proper procedures to recycle or reuse these materials have caused critical environmental issues. Due to the rubber’s ...

Nano-Enriched and Autonomous Sensing Framework for Dissolved Oxygen

Shehata, Nader; Azab, Mohammed; Kandas, Ishac; Meehan, Kathleen (MDPI, 2015-08-14)

This paper investigates a nano-enhanced wireless sensing framework for dissolved oxygen (DO). The system integrates a nanosensor that employs cerium oxide (ceria) nanoparticles to monitor the concentration of DO in aqueous ...

NanoARG: a web service for detecting and contextualizing antimicrobial resistance genes from nanopore-derived metagenomes

Arango-Argoty, Gustavo; Dai, Dongjuan; Pruden, Amy; Vikesland, Peter J.; Heath, Lenwood S.; Zhang, Liqing (2019-06-07)

Background Direct and indirect selection pressures imposed by antibiotics and co-selective agents and horizontal gene transfer are fundamental drivers of the evolution and spread of antibiotic resistance. ...

Nanodispersed DO(3)-phase nanostructures observed in magnetostrictive Fe-19% Ga Galfenol alloys

Bhattacharyya, Somnath; Jinschek, J. R.; Khachaturyan, Armen G.; Cao, Hu; Li, Jiefang; Viehland, Dwight D. (American Physical Society, 2008-03-10)

Few nanometer large (<2 nm) inclusions of DO(3)-phase structure have been identified in the A2 matrix of highly magnetostrictive Fe-19% Ga alloys by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). In addition, ...

Nanodroplet-Mediated Histotripsy for Image-guided Targeted Ultrasound Cell Ablation

Vlaisavljevich, Eli; Durmaz, Yasemin Yuksel; Maxwell, Adam; ElSayed, Mohamed; Xu, Zhen (Ivyspring Int Publ, 2013-01-01)

This paper is an initial work towards developing an image-guided, targeted ultrasound ablation technique by combining histotripsy with nanodroplets that can be selectively delivered to tumor cells. Using extremely short, ...

Nanogrowth twins and abnormal magnetic behavior in CoFe2O4 epitaxial thin films

Yan, Li; Wang, Yu; Li, Jiefang; Pyatakov, Alexander P.; Viehland, Dwight D. (American Institute of Physics, 2008-12-15)

Nanogrowth twins (GTs) have been observed in CoFe2O4 (CFO) epitaxial thin films deposited on (111) oriented SrTiO3 substrates by pulsed laser deposition. The GTs form during nucleation and growth and consist of CFO growth ...

Nanoindentation of thin films: Simulations and experiments

Nair, A. K.; Cordill, M. J.; Farkas, Diana; Gerberich, W. W. (Cambridge University Press, 2009-03-01)

Atomistic Simulations of nanoindentation of a 20-nm-thick Ni thin film oriented in the [111] direction were carried out to study the effects of indenter velocity and radii, interatomic potentials, and the boundary conditions ...

Nanomaterial Disposal by Incineration

Holder, Amara L.; Vejerano, Eric P.; Zhou, Xinzhe; Marr, Linsey C. (The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013-07-11)

As nanotechnology-based products enter into widespread use, nanomaterials will end up in disposal waste streams that are ultimately discharged to the environment. One possible end-of-life scenario is incineration. This ...

Nanomaterial enabled sensors for environmental contaminants

Willner, Marjorie R.; Vikesland, Peter J. (2018-11-22)

The need and desire to understand the environment, especially the quality of one’s local water and air, has continued to expand with the emergence of the digital age. The bottleneck in understanding the environment has ...

Nanonet force microscopy for measuring forces in single smooth muscle cells of the human aorta

Hall, Alexander; Chan, Patrick; Sheets, Kevin; Apperson, Matthew; Delaughter, Christopher; Gleason, Thomas G.; Phillippi, Julie A.; Nain, Amrinder (2017-07-07)

A number of innovative methods exist to measure cell-matrix adhesive forces, but they have yet to accurately describe and quantify the intricate interplay of a cell and its fibrous extracellular matrix (ECM). In cardiovascular ...

Nanoparticulate Ni(OH)(2) Films Synthesized from Macrocyclic Nickel(II) Cyclam for Hydrogen Production in Microbial Electrolysis Cells

Qin, M.; Maza, W. A.; Stratakes, B. M.; Ahrenholtz, S. R.; Morris, Amanda; He, Z. (Electrochemical Society, 2016-01-01)

Nanopillars with E-field accessible multi-state (N ≥ 4) magnetization having giant magnetization changes in self-assembled BiFeO3-CoFe2O4/Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)-38at%PbTiO3 heterostructures

Tang, Xiao; Viswan, Ravindranath; Gao, Min; Leung, Chung Ming; Folger, Carlos; Luo, Haosu; Howe, Brandon; Li, Jiefang; Viehland, Dwight D. (Springer Nature, 2018-01-26)

We have deposited self-assembled BiFeO3-CoFe2O4 (BFO-CFO) thin films on (100)-oriented SrRuO3-buffered Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)0.62Ti0.38O3 (PMN-38PT) single crystal substrates. These heterostructures were used for the study of ...