Semiconductor nanocrystals offer an enormous diversity of potential device applications,
based on their size-tunable photoluminescence, high optical stability and'bottom …

Recent advances and the current status of challenging light-harvesting nanomaterials, such
as semiconducting quantum dots (QDs), metal nanoparticles, semiconductor–metal …

This review summarizes traditional and recent nonconventional, bioinspired, methods for the
aqueous synthesis of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). The basic chemistry …

High particle uniformity, high photoluminescence quantum yields, narrow and symmetric
emission spectral lineshapes and minimal single-dot emission intermittency (known as …

Photoluminescence blinking—random switching between states of high (ON) and low (OFF)
emissivities—is a universal property of molecular emitters found in dyes, polymers …

Suitable labels are at the core of luminescence and fluorescence imaging and sensing. One
of the most exciting, yet also controversial, advances in label technology is the emerging …

We have developed a single-molecule imaging technique that uses quantum-dot-labeled
peptide-major histocompatibility complex (pMHC) ligands to study CD4+ T cell functional …

Semiconductor quantum dots are quickly becoming a critical diagnostic tool for discerning
cellular function at the molecular level. Their high brightness, long-lasting, size-tunable, and …

We explore how the size and shape of the microscopic confinement potential affects the
nonradiative Auger decay rate of confined carriers. Calculations conducted in the two-band …

The photoluminescence from a variety of individual molecules and nanometre-sized
crystallites is defined by large intensity fluctuations, known as 'blinking', whereby their …