Supersensitive fingerprinting of explosives by chemically modified nanosensors arrays.

The capability to detect traces of explosives sensitively, selectively and rapidly could be of great benefit for applications relating to civilian national security and military needs. Here, we show that, when chemically modified in a multiplexed mode, nanoelectrical devices arrays enable the supersensitive discriminative detection of explosive species. The fingerprinting of explosives is achieved by pattern recognizing the inherent kinetics, and thermodynamics, of interaction between the chemically modified nanosensors array and the molecular analytes under test.

Computed tomography of Lipiodol-loaded biodegradable pasty polymer for implant visualization.

Targeted delivery of drug-loaded implants for regional drug therapy has become an important approach to therapy. Simple and reproducible imaging methodologies to evaluate the implant noninvasively are needed. The goal of this work was to noninvasively evaluate the visibility, shape and degradation of a biodegradable implant containing Lipiodol (an X-ray contrast medium) by computed tomography (CT).

Unwrapping core-shell nanowires into nanoribbon-based superstructures.

A prize for the ribbons: High-quality crystalline semiconducting nanoribbons can be prepared by "unwrapping" core-shell nanowire precursors. For example, Ge nanowires were coated with a Si shell and the top surface was carved by etching whereas the sides were protected by a thin layer of photoresist material. Finally the Ge core was removed selectively by chemical means to give fully opened and flat nanoribbon structures.