University of Strathclyde

3 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Bioengineering

Manufacture and Drug Delivery Applications of Silk Nanoparticles

Thidarat Wongpinyochit¹, Blair F. Johnston¹, F. Philipp Seib¹

¹Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde

Nanoparticles are emerging as promising drug delivery systems for a broad range of indications. Here, we describe a simple yet powerful method to manufacture silk nanoparticles using reverse engineered Bombyx mori silk. These silk nanoparticles can be readily loaded with a therapeutic payload and subsequently explored for drug delivery applications.

Chemistry

Scale-up Chemical Synthesis of Thermally-activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters Based on the Dibenzothiophene-S,S-Dioxide Core

Oleh Vybornyi¹, Neil J. Findlay¹, Peter J. Skabara¹

¹WestCHEM, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde

Scale-up synthesis of highly efficient thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters is described in the presented article.

JoVE Core

Generation and Coherent Control of Pulsed Quantum Frequency Combs

Benjamin MacLellan^*1, Piotr Roztocki^*1, Michael Kues^1,2, Christian Reimer¹, Luis Romero Cortés¹, Yanbing Zhang¹, Stefania Sciara^1,3, Benjamin Wetzel^1,4, Alfonso Cino³, Sai T. Chu⁵, Brent E. Little⁶, David J. Moss⁷, Lucia Caspani⁸, José Azaña¹, Roberto Morandotti^1,9,10

¹Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique - Centre Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications (INRS-EMT), ²School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, ³Department of Energy, Information Engineering and Mathematical Models, University of Palermo, ⁴School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sussex, ⁵Department of Physics and Material Science, City University of Hong Kong, ⁶State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, ⁷Centre for Micro Photonics, Swinburne University of Technology, ⁸Institute of Photonics, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, ⁹Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, ¹⁰National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics

A protocol is presented for the practical generation and coherent manipulation of high-dimensional frequency-bin entangled photon states using integrated micro-cavities and standard telecommunications components, respectively.