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Self-Organized InGaAs Quantum Rings -- Fabrication and Spectroscopy
We report on recent experiments on semiconductor quantum rings, fabricated by self-organized Stranski-Krastanov growth. In the first part of this...
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Graphite as a Highly Correlated Electron Liquid
Although a considerable amount of research work has been done on graphite, its physical properties are still not well understood. In the present...
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Silicon-Based Waveguide Technology for Wavelength Division Multiplexing
This chapter reviews the application of silicon-based planar waveguide components for wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) and demultiplexing. The...
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Advanced Targeting Strategies for Murine Retroviral and Adeno-associated Viral Vectors
Targeted gene delivery involves broadening viral tropism to infect previously nonpermissive cells, replacing viral tropism to infect a target cell...
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Nonviral Delivery of Cancer Genetic Vaccines
The potential use of genetic vaccines to address numerous diseases including cancer is promising, but currently unrealized. Here, we review...
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Production and Formulation of Adenovirus Vectors
Adenovirus vectors have attracted considerable interest over the past decade, with ongoing clinical development programs for applications ranging...
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Molecular Conjugates
Molecular conjugates are nanometer-sized entities consisting of synthetic materials (lipids, polycations, targeting agents, and so on) and nucleic...
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Synthesis and Applications of Supramolecular Porphyrinic Materials
The supramolecular chemistry of porphyrinic systems is extraordinarily diverse because the rigid macrocycles offer a variety of topologies that can...
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Regulation of SNARE assembly by protein phosphorylation
Protein phosphorylation is emerging as an important regulatory mechanism that controls the secretory pathway. It enables coupling between the...
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Molecular mechanisms in clathrin-mediated membrane budding
Clathrin-coated vesicles (CCVs) form at the plasma membrane where they select cargo for endocytic entry into cells. CCVs also form at the trans-Golgi...
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Controlled Synthesis of High Quality Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Synthesis of high quality semiconductor nanocrystals is discussed in this chapter. Although the focus is on the recent progress in synthesis of...
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Tethering proteins in membrane traffic
In eukaryotic cells, protein secretion and the transport of materials between membrane-bounded organelles require efficient and accurate delivery of...
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Regulation of exocytotic events by centrosome-analogous structures
Centrosomes, spindle pole bodies, and related structures, generally termed microtubule organising centres (MTOCs; Pickett-Heaps 1969), are best...
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Lentiviral Vectors
We review the use of lentiviral vectors in current human gene therapy applications that involve genetic modification of nondividing tissues with...
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Plasmid Vaccines and Therapeutics: From Design to Applications
In the late 1980s, Vical and collaborators discovered that the injection into tissues of unformulated plasmid encoding various proteins resulted in...
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Adeno-associated Virus as a Gene Therapy Vector: Vector Development, Production and Clinical Applications
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) has emerged as an attractive vector for gene therapy. AAV vectors have successfully been utilized to promote...
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Optical Interconnect
The progress of silicon electronic industry is based on scaling down the minimum feature size of integrated circuits. Speed, density and costs of...
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Light Modulation with Silicon Devices
In this chapter we deal with different approaches to obtain fast and low power consumption amplitude modulation with silicon optoelettronic devices....
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Silicon Photo-Receivers
The properties of photodiodes being exploitable in standard bipolar, CMOS, and BiCMOS technologies are summarized. In addition examples of advanced...
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Integrated Photonics
This chapter attempts to bring an industrial perspective to the topic of silicon photonics integration. Comparisons between microelectronics and...