Outcome of an academia-industry collaboration programme “Bio-Nano Innovation Programme” in collaboration with JEOL

Outcome of an academia-industry collaboration programme “Bio-Nano Innovation Programme” in collaboration with JEOL | Toyo University

The Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre and the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary New Science started a collaborative research programme with the Electron Optics Laboratory Ltd. (JEOL) in 2016 and obtained a remarkable result concerning nanomaterials and nanotechnology.

Gold nanocages (Au-NCGs) have been paid a lot of attention to in recent years in the fields of materials science, nanotechnology, nano photonics, nanoelectronics, and biomedical science and technology. Au-NCGs are in particular focused on in biomedical studies considering the utilisation of them as nano vehicles for drug delivery to and nano media for photothermal therapy for cancer cells. In the present study, an ultra-fast methodology for synthesising Au-NCGs was developed. The present microwave assisted method reduces the synthetic time down to several seconds, noting that it takes more than 30 minutes with a conventional one, and improves significantly the quality of gold crystals.

The symposium was also supported by the following companies. We really appreciate their continuous support to the activities organised by the Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre and the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary New Science.