Research related to the development and application of luminescent nanoparticles (LNPs)
for chemical and biological analysis and imaging is flourishing. Novel materials and new …

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

Signal generation techniques for visual detection of analytes have received a great deal of
attention in various sensing fields. These approaches are considered to be advantageous …

Abstract Ultrasmall (< 2 nm) ligand-protected metal nanoclusters (NCs) have been an
emerging class of functional materials with rich coordination chemistry, finding increasing …

As a kind of promising nanomaterials, metal nanoclusters (MNCs) generally composed of
several to hundreds of metal atoms have received increasing interest owing to their unique …

Nanoclusters are nanostructures consisting of few to tens of atoms which have attracted
great interest from the scientific community due to their applications in a myriad of fields …

The use of protein templates for the controlled synthesis of inorganic nanostructures has
gained considerable attention in multidisciplinary fields, including electronics, optics …

In the past two decades, the use of biomolecules, either from biological or biomimetic
systems (or so-called biological or biomimetic synthesis), has emerged as a promising …

Gold nanoparticles with only a few atoms, known as gold nanoclusters (AuNCs), have
dimensions below 2 nm and feature singular properties such as size dependent …

Noble metal (eg, Au, Ag, Pt, Pd, and their alloys) nanoclusters (NCs) have emerged as a
new type of functional nanomaterial in nanoscience and nanotechnology. Owing to their …