In the last decade, we have witnessed the giant achievement in the field of silicon materials.
Among of them, fluorescent silicon nanomaterials have attracted considerable attentions …

There is a high local recurrence (LR) rate in breast-conserving therapy (BCT) and
enhancement of the local treatment is promising as a way to improve this. Thus we propose …

Porous silicon has been utilized within a wide spectrum of industries, as well as being used
in basic research for engineering and biomedical fields. Recently, surface modification …

Nanodiamonds containing high density ensembles of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy
(NV−) centers are promising fluorescent biomarkers due to their excellent photostability and …

Editorial Kabashin & Timoshenko imaging due to strong and long-decaying fluorescence in
the human body transparency window (750–900 nm)[9, 10]. On the other hand, Si …

A new and facile approach to selectively functionalize the internal and external surfaces of
porous silicon (pSi) for drug delivery applications is reported. To provide a surface that is …

Peptides have long been recognized as a promising group of therapeutic substances to treat
various diseases. Delivery systems for peptides have been under development since the …

Drug-induced cardiotoxicity is a major problem in drug discovery. Many approaches to
efficient drug screening have been developed, including animal testing in vivo and cell …

The monitoring of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in living cells remains challenging
because of the complexity, short half-life, and autofluorescence of biological samples. In this …

We employ a method of femtosecond laser fragmentation of preliminarily prepared water-
dispersed microcolloids to fabricate aqueous solutions of ultrapure bare Si-based …