Precise nanomedicine has been extensively explored for efficient cancer imaging and
targeted cancer therapy, as evidenced by a few breakthroughs in their preclinical and …

Infrared technologies provide tremendous value to our modern-day society. The need for
easy-to-fabricate, solution-processable, tunable infrared active optoelectronic materials has …

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

Luminescence probe has been broadly used for bio-imaging applications. Among them,
near-infrared (NIR) quantum dots (QDs) are more attractive due to minimal tissue …

Tremendous research efforts have been devoted to fabricating high quality quantum dots
(QDs) for applications in biology and medicine. Much of this research was pursued with an …

The chemistry, material processing and fundamental understanding of colloidal
semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots) are advancing at an astounding rate, bringing …

A strategy is presented that involes coupling Na2SeO3 reduction with the binding of silver
ions and alanine in a quasi-biosystem to obtain ultrasmall, near-infrared Ag2Se quantum …

The ability to engineer the band gap energy of semiconductor nanocrystals has led to the
development of nanomaterials with many new exciting properties and applications. Band …

This article summarizes the main achievements and challenges in the field of the aqueous
synthesis of semiconductor quantum dots in colloidal solutions. Developments in the last two …

We review the progress in ion exchange in a variety of nanocrystal structures from the
earliest accounts dating back over two decades ago to the present day. In recent years the …