Crown ether-capped gold nanoclusters as a multimodal platform for bioimaging

P Obstarczyk, A Pniakowska, Nonappa… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The distinct polarity of biomolecule surfaces plays a pivotal role in their biochemistry and
functions as it is involved in numerous processes, such as folding, aggregation, or …

Gold nanoparticles endowed with low-temperature colloidal stability by cyclic polyethylene glycol in ethanol

MA Aboudzadeh, J Kruse, MS Iglesias, D Cangialosi… - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The colloidal stability of metal nanoparticles is tremendously dependent on the thermal
behavior of polymer brushes. Neat polyethylene glycol (PEG) presents an unconventional …

Kinetic and thermodynamic hysteresis in clustering of gold nanoparticles: Implications for nanotransducers and information storage in dynamic systems

J Kruse, S Merkens, A Chuvilin… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Hysteresis is an essential attribute of many solid-state devices and biological processes, yet
it is often overlooked in colloidal and soft-matter dynamic systems. Herein, we show that …

Ion shuttling between emulsion droplets by crown ether modified gold nanoparticles

C Kunstmann-Olsen, D Belić, DF Bradley… - Nanoscale …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Selective unidirectional transport of barium ions between droplets in a water-in-chloroform
emulsion is demonstrated. Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) modified with a thiolated crown ether …

Effect of Alkali Metal Cations on the Unilamellar Vesicle of a Squalene Bearing 18-Crown-6

T Ngoc Linh, T Arimura, KI Tominaga, H Isoda… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Squalene bearing 18-crown-6 was synthesized and formed unilamellar vesicles with a
membrane thickness of about 6 nm and a diameter of about 0.32 μm. In the wake of the …

[PDF][PDF] Amyloids bio-imaging: two-photon excited autofluorescence and multimodal gold nanoclusters

Despite the remarkable progress in modern medicine, numerous pathological conditions
associated with aging (eg Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's diseases), due to their complex …

Origin and control of kinetic and thermodynamic hysteresis in clustering of gold nanoparticles

J Kruse, S Merkens, A Chuvilin, M Grzelczak - 2020 - chemrxiv.org
Hysteresis is an essential attribute of many solid-state devices and biological processes, yet
it is often overlooked in colloidal and soft-matter dynamic systems. Herein we show that gold …