(Nanowerk News) Take a pill, or get a shot? Given the choice, most people would likely go for the former. Cornell researchers have found a way to potentially administer C'Dots – ultrasmall fluorescent ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Researchers at Cornell University have developed a novel quantitative nanoparticle-based sensor of chemical concentrations based on organic dye molecules covalently integrated ...

Researchers have discovered that a technique designed to coat nickel nanoparticles with silica shells actually fragments the material -- creating a small core of oxidized nickel surrounded by smaller ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- A class of ultrasmall fluorescent core-shell silica nanoparticles developed at Cornell is showing an unexpected ability to rally the immune system against melanoma and dramatically ...

Cornell Prime Dots, also called C’Dots, are ultrasmall fluorescent core-shell hybrid silica nanoparticles that have been thought to only be effective when administered intravenously. However, recent ...

A class of ultrasmall fluorescent core-shell silica nanoparticles developed at Cornell is showing an unexpected ability to rally the immune system against melanoma and dramatically improve the ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Ultrasmall fluorescent core-shell hybrid silica nanoparticles – known as Cornell Prime Dots, or C’Dots – are among the nanocarriers for therapeutics that were thought to be viable only ...