Colloidal nanoparticles are being intensely pursued in current nanoscience research.
Nanochemists are often frustrated by the well-known fact that no two nanoparticles are the …

Driven by functionality and purity demand for applications of inorganic nanoparticle colloids
in optics, biology, and energy, their surface chemistry has become a topic of intensive …

Chemical methods developed over the past two decades enable preparation of colloidal
nanocrystals with uniform size and shape. These Brownian objects readily order into …

As a powerful signal amplification tool, the DNA walker has been widely applied to detect
rare microRNA (miRNA) in vivo. Despite the significant advances, a near-infrared (NIR) light …

Conventional cancer chemotherapy is often associated with toxicity issues. Thus, new drug
delivery systems (DDSs) are developed as alternatives owing to their potential to selectively …

A grand challenge in the fields of chemistry and materials science is the ability to construct f
the plac or a giv ement of en application. each component in or materials with absolute …

The self-assembly of inorganic nanoparticles is of great importance in realizing their
enormous potentials for broad applications due to the advanced collective properties of …

Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) has emerged as a leader among label-free
biosensing techniques in that it offers sensitive, robust, and facile detection. Traditional …

Noble metal nanoclusters are in the intermediate state between discrete atoms and
plasmonic nanoparticles and are of significance due to their atomically accurate structures …

Nanoparticles (NPs) decorated with a high density of DNA strands, also known as spherical
nucleic acids (SNAs), are widely used in DNA-programmable assembly, sensing, imaging …