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Concept

Materials

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  • Cotton thread
  • Cells crawling across crystals
  • Gold nanoparticles, when coated with a cancer antibody, are effective at binding to tumour cells and can be used in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. When bound to the gold, the cancer cells scatter light, making it very easy to identify the noncancerous cells from the malignant ones.
  • Graphite, SEM
  • Cotton fibres
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Materials science and engineering : its evolution, practice and prospects / edited by Morris Cohen ; contributions by Melvin Kranzberg [and others].

    | Date: [1978?]
    • Books

    The broad spectrum : the art and science of conserving colored media on paper, October 5-9. 1999 : abstracts and conference program, the Art Institute of Chicago / edited by Harriet K. Stratis and Britt Salvesen.

    Broad Spectrum : the Art and Science of Conserving Colored Media on Paper (1999 : Chicago, Ill.) | Date: [2000]
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    Graphite, SEM

    Khuloud T. Al-Jamal, Houmam Kafa, Noelia Rubio, Belén Ballesteros, Serene Tay & Michael Cicirko
    • Books

    Saving the twentieth century : the conservation of modern materials : proceedings of a conference Symposium '91: Saving the Twentieth Century, Ottawa, Canada, 15 to 20 September 1991 / edited by David W. Grattan = Sauvegarder le XXe siècle : la conservation des matériaux modernes : les actes de la conférence Symposium 91: Sauvegarder le XXe siècle, Ottawa, Canada, du 15 au 20 septembre 1991 / sous la direction de David W. Grattan.

    Symposium '91: Saving the twentieth century (1991 : Ottawa, Ont.) | Date: 1993
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    Few-layer graphene, SEM

    Izzat Suffian, Houmam Kafa, Noelia Rubio, Belén Ballesteros & Khuloud T. Al-Jamal
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