Nanoparticles having magnetic and fluorescent properties could be considered as a gift to
materials scientists due to their unique magneto-optical qualities. Multiple component …

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

Fluorescent nanodots have become increasingly prevalent in a wide variety of applications
with special interest in analytical and biomedical fields. The present overview focuses on …

The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a highly regulated and efficient barrier that provides a
sanctuary to the brain. It is designed to regulate brain homeostasis and to permit selective …

Quantum dots (QDs) have received great interest for diverse applications due to their distinct
advantages, such as narrow and symmetric emission with tunable colors, broad and strong …

Semiconducting quantum dots, whose particle sizes are in the nanometer range, have very
unusual properties. The quantum dots have band gaps that depend in a complicated fashion …

Synthesis of multifunctional magnetic nanoparticles (MFMNPs) is one of the most active
research areas in advanced materials. MFMNPs that have magnetic properties and other …

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 …

Effective therapy lies in achieving a therapeutic amount of drug to the proper site in the body
and then maintaining the desired drug concentration for a sufficient time interval to be …

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are tiny light-emitting particles on the nanometer scale,
and are emerging as a new class of fluorescent labels for biology and medicine. In …