Nanocapsules are extraordinarily small “shells” that can contain something as minute as a molecule and deliver it to a selected target. Chiu is developing and perfecting new types of nanocapsules and refining existing ones to study how a single neuronal cell processes the arrival of a signal at its membrane surface. Nanocapsules will be useful in mapping cell surface proteins and probing how receptors send signals and trigger synaptic transmission.
Nanocapsules ni "maganda" madogo sana ambayo yanaweza kuwa na kitu kama dakika kama molekuli na kuipeleka kwa lengo lililochaguliwa. Chiu anatengeneza na kuboresha aina mpya za nanokapsuli na kuboresha zilizopo ili kujifunza jinsi seli moja ya niuroni huchakata kuwasili kwa mawimbi kwenye utando wake. Nanocapsules zitakuwa muhimu katika kuchora protini za uso wa seli na kuchunguza jinsi vipokezi hutuma mawimbi na kuchochea maambukizi ya sinepsi.