Scientists from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic discovered a completely new way of modulating the self-assembly of nanoscopic building blocks – proteins – into cytoskeleton structures, using very short and intense electrical pulses. Noteworthy about this discovery is that pulses can fundamentally affect the nanoscopic shape of the self-assembled structure, either reversibly or irreversibly, according to the pulse parameter settings. This discovery has an impact on the development of new bionanomaterials and can lead to new electromagnetic approaches in biomedical therapeutic methods, such as cancer treatment. The discovery was published in the prestigious journal Advanced Materials.
Cover image of the journal Advanced Materials No. 39/2019
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Dr. Djamel Eddine Chafai
Photo: Petra Palečková