Gold nanomaterials at work in biomedicine

X Yang, M Yang, B Pang, M Vara, Y Xia - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Gold is a precious metal with a characteristic bright and beautiful hue known as the golden
yellow color.(1) As of 2012, a total of 174,100 tons of Au has been mined in human history …

Gold nanoclusters for theranostic applications

Y Zheng, J Wu, H Jiang, X Wang - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Gold nanoclusters, consisting of a few to several hundred Au atoms with a core size below 2
nm, have attracted worldwide attention in the biomedicine because of their supernormal …

Construction of biomass carbon dots based fluorescence sensors and their applications in chemical and biological analysis

H Liu, J Ding, K Zhang, L Ding - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Photoluminescence carbon dots (CDs) have chemical stability, water dispersibility and
biocompatibility. Although various methods have been used to synthesize CDs, green …

A dual-mode nanosensor based on carbon quantum dots and gold nanoparticles for discriminative detection of glutathione in human plasma

Y Shi, Y Pan, H Zhang, Z Zhang, MJ Li, C Yi… - Biosensors and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Glutathione (GSH) plays key roles in biological systems and serves many cellular functions.
Since biothiols all incorporate thiol, carboxylic and amino groups, discriminative detection of …

Gold nanocluster-based ratiometric probe with surface structure regulation-triggered sensing of hydrogen sulfide in living organisms

H Xiang, S He, G Zhao, M Zhang, J Lin… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The development of reliable probes for in vivo detection of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) with high
sensitivity and selectivity is of great significance due to its key roles in many pathological …

Simultaneous elimination of carryover contamination and detection of DNA with uracil-DNA-glycosylase-supplemented loop-mediated isothermal amplification (UDG …

K Hsieh, PL Mage, AT Csordas, M Eisenstein… - Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Simultaneous elimination of carryover contamination and detection of DNA with uracil-DNA-glycosylase-supplemented
loop-mediated isothermal amplificati ... - Chemical Communications (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/C4CC00540F …

Novel heterostructure of a MXene@ NiFe-LDH nanohybrid with superior peroxidase-like activity for sensitive colorimetric detection of glutathione

H Li, Y Wen, X Zhu, J Wang, L Zhang… - … Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Developing a simple and efficient method to detect biomarkers is pivotal for early diagnosis
of diseases. In this work, a novel 2D/2D heterogeneous structure, consisting of MXene …

Colorimetric detection of mercury (II) based on gold nanoparticles, fluorescent gold nanoclusters and other gold-based nanomaterials

W Chansuvarn, T Tuntulani, A Imyim - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
This review focuses on colorimetric and visual assays for determination of mercury (II)(Hg
2+) ions based on gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), fluorescent gold nanoclusters (AuNCs), gold …

Switch-on Fluorescence Sensing of Glutathione in Food Samples Based on a Graphitic Carbon Nitride Quantum Dot (g-CNQD)–Hg2+ Chemosensor

Y Xu, X Niu, H Zhang, L Xu, S Zhao… - Journal of agricultural …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Fluorescence sensing of specific biological molecules by artificial chemosensors is a
versatile technique. In the present work, a switch-on fluorescence sensor for rapid, sensitive …

Fluorescent gold nanoclusters: synthesis and recent biological application

X Qu, Y Li, L Li, Y Wang, J Liang… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Fluorescent gold nanoclusters (AuNCs) have been extensively studied due to their unique
construction and distinctive properties, which place them between single metal atoms and …