{"id":6705,"date":"2021-08-06T12:14:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T04:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/mse\/?post_type=nus-news&p=6705"},"modified":"2022-12-15T14:44:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T06:44:23","slug":"new-smart-2d-material-promises-improved-drug-delivery","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/mse\/news\/new-smart-2d-material-promises-improved-drug-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"New smart 2D material promises improved drug delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The team that created the 2D-electrolytes was led by Prof Antonio Castro Neto (right), Director of CA2DM. With him is Ms Mariana Costa (left), the first author of the ground-breaking publication.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A new class of intelligent material that could be used in a range of applications from drug delivery to energy storage has been developed by NUS researchers, led by Professor Antonio Castro Neto, (Dept of Materials Science & Engineering<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The intelligent material dubbed \u201c2D-electrolytes\u201d is just one atom thick and as with other intelligent materials alters its shape in response to changes in its environment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Like traditional electrolytes, these new \u201c2D-electrolytes\u201d dissociate their atoms in different solvents, and become electrically charged. Furthermore, the arrangement of these materials can be controlled by external factors, such as pH and temperature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The breakthrough material was developed by a team of researchers at the NUS Centre for Advanced 2D Materials (CA2DM) led by Prof Castro Neto, who is also faculty at the NUS Department of Physics.<\/p>\n

Cancer treatment<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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One area in which the researchers say the new material could prove especially useful is in healthcare, where it could be used to direct drugs to a specific target inside the body.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This is particularly important for treating diseases like cancer, as the material only releases the drug payload when it detects the presence of a cancer cell, leaving healthy cells unharmed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The 2D-electrolytes also show promise for other applications that require a material to be responsive to environmental changes, such as artificial muscles and energy storage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Recent years have seen an increasing number of 2D materials developed. These are solid materials that exists in a single layer of atoms. Having a specific height and width, but effectively no depth, they are essentially two-dimensional.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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An electrolyte, meanwhile, is a substance that produces an electrically conducting suspension when dissolved in a solvent, such as water.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This behaviour has been well-established in many other compounds, but the material developed by NUS researchers is the first to have both 2D structure combined with the properties of electrolytes, with a particular trend to shapeshift their form reversibly in a liquid medium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For more on this research,\u00a0click here to visit NUS News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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* Article from NUS Engineering news<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  A new class of intelligent material that could be used in a range of applications from drug delivery to energy storage has been developed by NUS researchers, led by Professor Antonio Castro Neto, (Dept of Materials Science & Engineering). The intelligent material dubbed \u201c2D-electrolytes\u201d is just one atom thick and as with other intelligent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":6706,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[36],"class_list":["post-6705","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/mse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/mse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/mse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nus-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/mse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/mse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14178,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/mse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6705\/revisions\/14178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/mse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/mse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/mse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=6705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}