Super-resolution imaging techniques that overcome the diffraction limit of light have gained
wide popularity for visualizing cellular structures with nanometric resolution. Following the …

Semiconducting nanoparticles, more commonly known as quantum dots, possess unique
size and shape dependent optoelectronic properties. In recent years, these unique …

Fluorescent quantum dots (QDs), defined by a diameter size of< 10 nm, have been the core
concept of nanoscience and nanotechnology since their inception. QDs possess many …

Background Nanoparticle biosensors have the potential to enhance or supersede current
analytical techniques, and their introduction could have a great impact in research and …

In this review we present new concepts and recent progress in the application of
semiconductor quantum dots (QD) as labels in two important areas of biology, bioimaging …

Currently, infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria have reached critical levels.
Thus, various approaches are being explored for the development of new and effective …

In order to translate nanotechnology into medical practice, magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs)
have been presented as a class of non‐invasive nanomaterials for numerous biomedical …

The combination of the high surface areas, microporosity and tuneable compositions of
metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with the desirable photo-physical behaviour of …

Generally, carbon nanoparticles with a size of 10 nm (or less) are called carbon quantum
dots (CQDs, C-dots or CD), which have created huge excitement due to their advantages in …

Functionally integrating DNA and other nucleic acids with nanoparticles in all their different
physicochemical forms has produced a rich variety of composite nanomaterials which, in …