Antibiotic resistance is considered as one of the greatest health threats worldwide, and we
are in a staring competition with microbes as antibiotic resistance mounts faster than our …

Metal ions are essential to many chemical, biological, and environmental processes. In the
past two decades, many DNA-based metal sensors have emerged. While the main …

Metal nanoclusters, composed of several to a few hundred metal atoms, have received
worldwide attention due to their extraordinary physical and chemical characteristics …

Fluorescent metal nanoclusters (NCs) as a new class of fluorophores have attracted more
and more attention due to their unique electronic structures and the subsequent unusual …

Recent advances in nanotechnology have given rise to a new class of fluorescent labels,
fluorescent metal nanoclusters, eg, Au and Ag. These nanoclusters are of significant interest …

DNA-stabilized silver nanoclusters (AgN-DNAs) are known to have one or two DNA
oligomer ligands per nanocluster. Here, we present the first evidence that AgN-DNA species …

Atomically precise metal nanoclusters (NCs) with molecule-like structures are emerging
nanomaterials with fascinating chemical and physical properties. Photoluminescence (PL) …

Nobel metal nanomaterials (NMNs) with interesting physical and chemical properties are
ideal building blocks for engineering and tailoring nanoscale structures for specific …

Silver nanoclusters are a class of fluorophores with attractive features, including brightness,
photostability and subnanometer size. In this review we overview the different scaffolds that …

Functional nucleic acid (FNA) nanotechnology is an interdisciplinary field between nucleic
acid biochemistry and nanotechnology that focuses on the study of interactions between …