Physico-chemical determinants of the toxicity of silica nanoparticles KU Leuven
Silica nanoparticles (SiO2-NPs) are produced on an industrialscale and are an addition to a growing number of commercial products. SiO2-NPs also ...
With cancer being a leading cause of mortality, immunotherapy is emerging as an innovative procedure to control the disease. It is a fast evolving complex field aiming to stimulate components of the immune system against tumor cells. One of these approaches is active specific immunotherapy based on the injection of autologous mature dendritic cells loaded with autologous tumor lysate. Proof-of-principle studies have shown that these vaccines ...
The need to recycle (waste)water becomes highly critical due to depleting water reserves coupled with high water consumption accompanying the rapid population growth, urbanization and industrialization. Water quality and available quantity is therefore considered one of the top challenges of the 21st century. As such, both in China and in Belgium there is the need to develop and implement technologies that focus on water treatment and re-use. ...
Thermo-responsief polymeer, poly(oligo ethyleen glycol acrylaat) (POEGA), zal eerst geintroduceerd worden als stationaire fase voor high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Het thermoresponsief gedrag van deze stationaire fases kan makkelijk beinvloed worden door aanpassingen aan bijvoorbeeld de oligo ethyleen glycol zijketen en de lengte van het polymeer, die beide een invloed hebben op de eigenschappen van het polymeer. Zowel ...
Systemic sclerosis is a rare autoimmune disease that can develop in genetically predisposed individuals upon exposure to – at present largely unknown- environmental triggers. The best available evidence supports a link between systemic sclerosis and job exposure to silica or solvents. Due to the rarity of the disease many questions remain open: what is the critical threshold of exposure above which disease will develop? Is intensity of ...
In this project, we will stabilize perovskite QDs inside self-synthesized nanoporous crystalline silica-based materials (nanoSils). Until now the development of perovskite QDs confined in nanoSils is still in its infancy and the long-term stabilization required for LED phosphors has not yet been accomplished. Zeolites are one type of nanoSils, and since the local environment of the luminescent perovskite QD has been shown to strongly impact ...