{"id":1025,"date":"2010-09-17T11:30:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T15:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2010-09-17T11:30:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T15:30:27","slug":"academic-industrial-researchers-enhance-nanospring-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"Academic, Industrial Researchers Enhance Nanospring Capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1027\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1027\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Nanospring_NSF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1027\" title=\"Nanospring_NSF\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Nanospring_NSF.jpg\" alt=\"Nanospring illustration (National Science Foundation)\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Nanospring_NSF.jpg 300w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Nanospring_NSF-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nanospring illustration (National Science Foundation)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Researchers at <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/ua\/ncs\/archives\/2010\/sep\/%E2%80%9Cnanosprings%E2%80%9D-offer-improved-performance-biomedicine-electronics\">Oregon State University<\/a> in Corvallis and University of Idaho in Moscow, with colleagues from <a href=\"http:\/\/gonano-technologies.com\/\">GoNano Technologies<\/a> also in Moscow, loaded biological molecules onto a type of nanostructure called &#8220;nanosprings&#8221; that are able to maximize surface area in chemical processes operating on a micrometer scale.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found a way to attach enzymes to silicon dioxide nanosprings so they function as a biological catalyst to facilitate other chemical reactions. With these enzymes added, nanosprings could be used to create biochemical sensors that react to a toxin far more quickly than conventional sensors. Other potential applications include medical treatments, where antibodies rather than enzymes are attached to nanosprings. The findings were reported in a recent issue of the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/btpr.476\/abstract\"><em>Biotechnology Progress<\/em><\/a> (paid subscription required).<\/p>\n<p>Nanosprings curl thin nanowires into helical form, much like telephone handset cords or the old slinky toy, which enables them to concentrate more surface area into a small space. In June, GoNano Technologies received a <a href=\"http:\/\/gonano-technologies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Press_Release_CCR_SBIR_Award_06112010.pdf\">Small Business Innovation Research grant<\/a> from National Science Foundation to develop an application for capturing carbon dioxide with nanosprings for recycling into other chemical byproducts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Oregon State University in Corvallis and University of Idaho in Moscow, with colleagues from GoNano Technologies also in Moscow, loaded biological molecules onto a type of nanostructure called &#8220;nanosprings&#8221; that are able to maximize surface area in chemical processes operating on a micrometer scale. The researchers found a way to attach enzymes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[21,18,26],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ventures","tag-biotech","tag-nanotechnology","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}