Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the United States, trailing only heart
disease in incidence. Despite significant worldwide investment in research, cancer remains …

Bionanotechnology has now become firmly established in its own right as one of the
principle and focused subdisciplines within nanotechnology.(1-10) Bionanotechnology can …

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have a number of physical properties that make them appealing
for medical applications. For example, the attenuation of X-rays by gold nanoparticles has …

In the last 30 years we have assisted to a massive advance of nanomaterials in material
science. Nanomaterials and structures, in addition to their small size, have properties that …

Nanosensors are sensing devices with at least one of their sensing dimensions being up
to100 nm. In the field of nanotechnology, nanosensors are instrumental for (a) detecting …

In vitro biosensors have been an integral component for early diagnosis of cancer in the
clinic. Among them, no-wash biosensors, which only depend on the simple mixing of the …

Interest in developing diverse nanoparticle (NP)-biological composite materials continues to
grow almost unabated. This is motivated primarily by the desire to simultaneously exploit the …

The endogenous transport mechanisms which occur in living organisms have evolved to
allow selective transport and processing operate on a scale of tens of nanometers. This …

Since the advent of click chemistry in 2001, the 1, 4-disubstituted triazole has become an
increasingly common motif in chemical sensors. Although these click-derived triazoles are …

Imaging of enzyme activity in living subjects promises many applications in both basic and
translational researches from helping elucidate the enzyme function and mechanism in …