BBC News - Nanoparticle hollowing method promises medical advances
A process to "carve" highly complicated shapes into nanoparticles has been unveiled by a team of researchers. The researchers added that the technique could also aid drug delivery. "It's a wonderful molecular suitcase," said Prof Puntes.
The research was carried out by the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology in Bellaterra, Spain and is published in an issue of Science.
However, the professor acknowledged that at this early stage he could only guess at the eventual uses such nanomaterials would have.
"When people first invented plastic they didn't know what to do with it, we knew electricity was around for over a thousand years before we learned how to do something useful with it," Prof Puntes said.
"This creates different materials so they will probably have lots of different properties."
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