Back in March 2009, Dr. Elena Rozhkova, from Argonne National Lab (ANL) teamed up with organizers to put on a symposium with the latest on nanotech stuff.
The advances in new functional materials enable brand new types of devices and structures. Advanced materials have importance due to their tailored and unique characteristics, and their wide range of potential applications. Advanced materials and devices contribute to the advancement of a number of applications, including medicine and health, information and communication, space, transportation, structural materials, textiles, agriculture and food science, and the environment. Interdisciplinary research in the area of nanoscale materials plays a vital role in creating these advanced materials.
Now Elena is working on a "Cancer-seeking nanomissile" Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago's Brain Tumor Center have developed a way to target brain cancer cells using inorganic titanium dioxide nanoparticles bonded to soft biological material (A High-Performance Nanobio Photocatalyst for Targeted Brain Cancer Therapy). Brain tumors kill thousands of people every year.
"It is a real example of how nano and biological interfacing can be used for biomedical application," said scientist Elena Rozhkova with Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials. "We chose brain cancer because of its difficulty in treatment and its unique receptors."
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