A diverse array of organic and inorganic materials, including nanomaterials, has been
extensively employed in multifunctional biomedical applications. These applications …

A wide variety of nanomaterials have emerged in recent years with advantageous properties
for a plethora of therapeutic and diagnostic applications. Such applications include drug …

Aptamers have attracted the attention of many researchers because of their high stability,
high affinity and high selectivity. Over the past decades, considerable intensive exploration …

Aptamers are a novel type of single-stranded RNA/DNA molecule that is chosen by a
screening mechanism among synthetic nucleic acid collections by a process called …

In the past decades, various nanomaterials with unique properties have been explored for
bioapplications. Meanwhile, aptamers, generated from the systematic evolution of ligands by …

With the advancement of functional nanomaterials and aptamer selection technologies,
aptamer functionalized nanomaterials (AFMs) open various methods to design new sensing …

In recent years, nanomaterials have captured the attention of scientists from a wide spectrum
of domains. With their unique properties, nanomaterials offer great promise for numerous …

Conspectus Aptamers are single-stranded DNA or RNA molecules composed of 15–80
nucleotides, obtained from a random oligonucleotide library via the systematic evolution of …

Specific interactions between ligands and receptors on cell surface play an important role in
the cell biological process. Nucleic acid aptamers as commonly used ligands enable …

Based on their unique advantages, increasing interest has been shown in the use of
aptamers as target ligands for specific cancer cell recognition and targeted cancer therapy …