Carbon dots (CDs) are a new type of carbon nanomaterial that have unique physical and
chemical properties, good biocompatibility, low toxicity, and easy surface functionalization …

Due to their atomically precise structures and intriguing chemical/physical properties, metal
nanoclusters are an emerging class of modular nanomaterials. Photo-luminescence (PL) is …

Gold nanomaterials have emerged as versatile systems which hold a great promise for
several biomedical applications. Among them, gold nanoclusters (AuNCs)—ultra-small …

Metal nanoclusters (NCs) are a type of ultrasmall nanomaterials with unique
physicochemical properties. Novel nanocomposites with exciting new and sometimes exotic …

Cysteine (Cys), one of three endogenous biothiols, is involved in a variety of biological
processes, such as protein and peptide biosynthesis, enzyme active sites and cofactors, and …

Emerging nano-donor and nano-receptor FRET pairs are more advantageous to broad
biosensing applications. However, those reported FRET system generally containing a …

The construction of ratiometric fluorescence assay has displayed fantastic advantages in
improving semi-quantitative visualization capability by presenting successive color changes …

Photoluminescent nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dots (N-CQDs) hold great promise for
numerous applications because of their attractive attributes. However, the development of N …

Gold nanoclusters (AuNCs) have been extensively applied as a fluorescent probe for
biomedical applications in imaging, detection, and therapy due to their unique chemical and …

In the present study, a kind of Eu (III) post-functionalized Zr (IV)-based metal-organic
framework (UiO-66 (COOH) 2, Zr-MOF: Eu 3+) was synthesized and utilized as an …