Last week Nanoscale held a cake reception at the ChinaNANO13 conference in Beijing to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST). The journal Nanoscale is a collaborative venture between RSC Publishing NCNST in Beijing.
The ChinaNANO13 conference was the fifth biennial International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology. The conference covered all things nano from carbon nanomaterials to nanobiotechnology. The only thing there that wasn’t nano was the Nanoscale Cake, which was quite enormous.
Nanoscale has also published a collection of articles, guest edited by Xingyu Jiang to mark the 10th anniversary of NCNST. Take a look at the collection here.
Royal Society of Chemistry - NCNST cake
Chunli Bai, Philip Earis, Xingyu Jiang and Jie Liu cutting the cake with a hungry crowd behind
Crowd at ChinaNANO13 enjoying the cake
To evaluate the toxicity, the researchers induce the breakdown of the nanomaterials by exposing them to simulated solar UV light. This releases Cd2+ and Zn2+ ions for the QDs and NPs, respectively, which were then detected by measuring the quenching of the fluorescence signal in the presence of tetrakis (4-carboxyphenyl) porphyrin (TCPP) or by measuring the enhancement of the fluorescence signal in the presence of the commercial Measure iT Pd/Cd sensor.