{"id":213237,"date":"2025-05-04T14:14:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T19:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/scientists-create-a-brilliantly-luminous-nanoscale-chemical-tool"},"modified":"2025-05-04T14:14:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T19:14:39","slug":"scientists-create-a-brilliantly-luminous-nanoscale-chemical-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/scientists-create-a-brilliantly-luminous-nanoscale-chemical-tool","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create a \u2018brilliantly luminous\u2019 nanoscale chemical tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-a-brilliantly-luminous-nanoscale-chemical-tool2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Missouri researchers developed the tiny clay-based materials that can be customized for a range of analytical, commercial and medical applications.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine tiny LEGO pieces that automatically snap together to form a strong, flat sheet. Then, scientists add special chemical \u201chooks\u201d to these sheets to attach glowing molecules called fluorophores.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor Gary Baker, Piyuni Ishtaweera, Ph.D., and their team have created these tiny, clay-based materials\u2014called fluorescent polyionic nanoclays. They can be customized for many uses, including advancing energy and sensor technology, improving medical treatments and protecting the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Missouri researchers developed the tiny clay-based materials that can be customized for a range of analytical, commercial and medical applications. Imagine tiny LEGO pieces that automatically snap together to form a strong, flat sheet. Then, scientists add special chemical \u201chooks\u201d to these sheets to attach glowing molecules called fluorophores. Associate Professor Gary Baker, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}