Research Highlights 2016-2020
Our research is highlighted in national and international media sources
 | Student Channel UNIVER 28 February 2020 Engineering of the cell surface by applying of nanocoatings and the prospects of this technology in the creation of biological tissue and organ regeneration. The use of ceramic nanotubes as containers for the targeted delivery of drugs to humans and animals. New technologies for dyeing and preserving hair using ceramic nanotubes: why global cosmetic corporations became interested in this technology and when we will see them on the market. Biotechnologies and history: experience of successful application of ceramic nanotubes in the field of preservation of cultural heritage objects. These topics are discussed in our conversation with the Doctor of biological sciences, the Head of the Research Laboratory of Bionanotechnology of the Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology of KFU, Rawil Fakhrullin. |
 | Tatar-inform Scientists from Kazan Federal University, together with colleagues from the University of Palermo (Italy), have developed a safe and effective emulsion for the restoration and preservation of stone cultural monuments. The research team offers a new strategy for developing an emulsion based on ceramic nanotubes and a mixture of biological polymers (chitosan and pectin), reports Rawil Fakhrullin, chief research officer of the Bionanotechnology Research Laboratory of Kazan Federal University. |
 | April 24th, 2019 Scientists from Kazan Federal University, together with colleagues from the Technical University of Louisiana, have developed a new safe technology for hair dyeing based on clay nanotubes. An experiment on hair coloring was carried out in the laboratory of Bionanotechnology (KFU). The dye fills the empty space of the tubes, which spontaneously form a thin layer on the surface of the hair, reports Rawil Fakhrullin, chief research officer of the Bionanotechnology Research Laboratory of Kazan Federal University. |
| Nanowerk In new work, reported in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ("Nanohydrogel formation within halloysite lumen for triggered and sustained release"), researchers from Kazan Federal University and the University of Palermo show that a hydrogel can be confined within the cavity of halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) by means of an easy strategy. |
| American Pharmacists Association The article "Paclitaxel Encapsulated in Halloysite Clay Nanotubes for Intestinal and Intracellular Delivery" presents the possibility of forming tablets using the natural clay nanotubes halloysite, loaded with anti-cancer drug paclitaxel. It showed obvious toxicity of the drug-loaded nanotubes in relation to the cancer cells. Halloysite drug composites can be employed for tablet compression where halloysite serves a dual purpose of being a drug delivery vehicle and as a novel tablet excipient. |
| SPIE Surface-enhanced Raman scattering can be used as an alternative approach for evaluating the toxicity of nanoparticles in single living cells, bypassing the complications faced by conventional cytotoxicity assays. |
| ГАЗЕТА.RU Биологи из КФУ получили качественные 3D-изображения поверхности кутикулы почвенной нематоды с помощью атомно-силовой спектроскопии. |
| Чердак: наука, технологии, будущее С помощью сканирующего зондового микроскопа получено изображение кутикулы тела нематоды C. elegans в ее естественной среде обитания. |
| Российский научный фонд Изучение нематод C. elegans имеет большое прикладное значение, так как они широко используются в биомедицинских исследованиях — скрининге лекарственных средств или оценке токсичности. |
| OPTEC Группа исследователей под руководством Равиля Фахруллина из ИФМиБ КФУ провела исследование и визуализацию наноструктуры кутикулы нематод C. elegans методами атомно-силовой микроскопии. |
| ГТРК Татарстан Предотвратить экологическую катастрофу и лечить людей помогут киборги. Казанские ученые сегодня работают над созданием клеток, которые смогут защитить здоровые, поддержать больные. Еще одно средство должно доставить лекарства в очаг недуга. Основу его нашли недалеко. Под ногами. Запись эфира на youtube. |
| Nanowerk Scientists from Kazan Federal University report for the first time the effective imaging of the nanoscale structure of C. elegans nematodes' cuticle using atomic force microscopy operating in PeakForce Tapping mode. |
| Nanowerk The researchers show that surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) can be used as an alternative nanotoxicity evaluation method. |
| Nanowerk A nanoshell 'smart dress' for oil-degrading bacteria. |
| EurekAlert Cell encapsulation allows fabricating live microbial cells with magnetic nanoparticles onto cell walls, which mimics natural magnetotactic bacteria. For this study researchers from Kazan Federal University and Louisiana Tech University chose Alcanivorax borkumensis marine bacteria as a target microorganism for cell surface engineering with magnetic nanoparticles. |
| Open Nanofabrication Scientists performed cell surface engineering with magnetic nanoparticles on marine bacteria. |
| ScienceDaily The modified polyelectrolyte-magnetite nanocoating was applied to functionalize the cell walls of oil decomposing bacteria Alcanivorax borkumensis. |
| Nanowerk Scientists from Kazan Federal University demonstrated the enhancement of mechanical strength, higher water uptake and thermal properties in chitosan-gelatine-agarose hydrogels doped with halloysite used as the materials to produce tissue engineering scaffolds. |
| PHYS.ORG Scientists from Kazan confirm the great potential of chitosan-agarose-gelatine nanocomposite porous scaffolds doped with halloysite in tissue engineering. |
| Science Newsline Clay Nanotube-biopolymer Composite Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering are presented by scientists from Kazan Federal University. |
| ScienceDaily Scientists from Kazan Federal University presented a novel halloysite-doped biopolymer tissue engineering scaffold. |
| EurekAlert Scientists combined three biopolymers, chitosan and agarose (polysaccharides), and a protein gelatine, as the materials to produce tissue engineering scaffolds and demonstrated the enhancement of mechanical strength (doubled pick load), higher water uptake and thermal properties in chitosan-gelatine-agarose hydrogels doped with halloysite. |
| Государственная телерадиокомпания "Татарстан" Нанотрубки галлуазита помогут исцелиться от недугов. Сотрудники лаборатории "Бионанотехнологии" Казанского федерального университета рассказали об уникальных свойствах этого вещества и перспективах его применения в медицине. |
