The dual effects of reactive oxygen species (ROS) on living organisms have become a hot
research topic in the biomedical field. Excessive ROS triggers oxidative imbalances in the …

Nanoclays, 2D layered mineral silicates, have been used for centuries and have retained a
prominent role in advancing materials science and technology. This class of materials has …

Introduction Clay minerals are a class of silicates with chemical inertness, colloid, and
thixotropy, which have excellent physicochemical properties, good biocompatibility, low …

Clay minerals have been applied in biomedicine for thousands of years. Laponite is a
nanostructured synthetic clay with the capacity to retain and progressively release drugs. In …

Tannic acid (TA) has become increasingly important as a biomaterial because of its ability to
capture free radicals and form complexes with metal ions. Nevertheless, a systematic …

In this report, a new ligand TFBIP (TFBIP= 2-(4′-trifluoromethyl)-[1, 1′-biphenyl]-4-yl)-1H-
imidazo [4, 5-f][1, 10] phenanthroline) and its three iridium (III) complexes [Ir (ppy) 2 …

Human urine is a point source of environmental antibiotic-related microcontaminants. Thus,
developing dedicated treatment technologies for the effective degradation of urine …

Efficient shielding of phosphorescent transition metal complexes against diffusion-controlled
collisional quenching by triplet molecular dioxygen as well as reduction of microenvironment …

In the search for appropriate host matrices for highly luminescent molecular guest species,
an organo-silica monolithic xerogel prepared by the hydrolysis and co-condensation …

Two isoleptic complexes involving Pd (II) and Pt (II) centres with a tetradentate luminophoric
ligand were adsorbed onto Laponite (LAP), yielding H2O-dispersible nanohybrids with …