Description: GUMBOS (Group of Uniform Materials Based on Organic Salts) are solid-phase materials with relatively low melting points of up to 250°C. Their structural design can be easily altered to obtain a final product with ‘tunable’ properties. Professor Isiah Warner and his team from Louisiana State University have shown that GUMBOS can be converted to nanoparticles that have a wide range of applications, including the selective treatment of cancer, the development of solar and fuel cells, the extraction of biomaterials from complex biological mixtures, and the formulation of more effective antibodies.
