The conundrum of modality selection in clinical diagnostic imaging is that modalities with the
highest sensitivity have relatively poor resolution, while those with high resolution have …

Light‐emitting semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) combined with magnetic resonance
imaging contrast agents within a single nanoparticle platform are considered to perform as …

Fluorescent-magnetic-biotargeting multifunctional nanobioprobes (FMBMNs) have attracted
great attention in recent years due to their increasing, important applications in biomedical …

Progress in colloidal nanochemistry has been tremendous in the last decades. Nowadays a
large variety of materials, sizes and shapes are accessible via colloid chemical methods. In …

A new multifunctional nanovehicle for tumor therapy and cell imaging was fabricated by
coating NIR light-responsive polymers (HAMAFA-b-DDACMM) onto the surface of …

A new biocompatible block copolymer (BCP) composed of poly (ethylene oxide)(PEO) and
poly (L-glutamic acid) bearing a number of 6-bromo-7-hydroxycoumarin-4-ylmethyl groups …

Recently, Nanoarchitectonics has been introduced as a new concept that refers to a
technology system for arranging nanoscale structural units in a required architecture …

Water-in-oil (W/O) microemulsion is a well-suitable confined reacting medium for the
synthesis of structured functional nanoparticles of controlled size and shape. During the last …

The use of nanomaterials, specifically fluorescent semiconductor quantum dots (QDs), for
biological imaging and sensing has become very topical. Here we present a historical …

Investigation of many cellular processes using fluorescent quantum dots (QDs) is hindered
by the nontrivial requirements for QD surface functionalization and targeting. To address …