Luminescent metal nanoclusters: Biosensing strategies and bioimaging applications

Y Xiao, Z Wu, Q Yao, J Xie - Aggregate, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Metal nanoclusters (MNCs) are ultrasmall metal‐organic aggregates, composed of a metal
core less than 2 nm and a protecting shell of metal‐organic ligand motifs. The controlled …

Tumor microenvironment-triggered intratumoral in-situ biosynthesis of inorganic nanomaterials for precise tumor diagnostics

X Zhang, Q Zhao, J Yang, T Wang, F Chen… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
The severe side effects and low bioavailability of conventional chemotherapeutic drugs are
the major problems that current clinical cancer treatments suffer from. In recent years, tumor …

Recent advances in biomedical applications of fluorescent gold nanoclusters

Y Zheng, L Lai, W Liu, H Jiang, X Wang - Advances in Colloid and Interface …, 2017 - Elsevier
Fluorescent gold nanoclusters (AuNCs) are emerging as novel fluorescent materials and
have attracted more and more attention in the field of biolabeling, biosensing, bioimaging …

Harnessing Hafnium‐Based Nanomaterials for Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

S Ding, L Chen, J Liao, Q Huo, Q Wang, G Tian, W Yin - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With the rapid development of nanotechnology and nanomedicine, there are great interests
in employing nanomaterials to improve the efficiency of disease diagnosis and treatment …

Progress on photocatalytic semiconductor hybrids for bacterial inactivation

J Zeng, Z Li, H Jiang, X Wang - Materials horizons, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Due to its use of green and renewable energy and negligible bacterial resistance,
photocatalytic bacterial inactivation is to be considered a promising sterilization process …

Intratumoral generation of photothermal gold nanoparticles through a vectorized biomineralization of ionic gold

AS Schwartz-Duval, CJ Konopka, P Moitra… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Various cancer cells have been demonstrated to have the capacity to form plasmonic gold
nanoparticles when chloroauric acid is introduced to their cellular microenvironment. But …

Magnetite-Gold nanohybrids as ideal all-in-one platforms for theranostics

MV Efremova, VA Naumenko, M Spasova… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract High-quality, 25 nm octahedral-shaped Fe3O4 magnetite nanocrystals are
epitaxially grown on 9 nm Au seed nanoparticles using a modified wet-chemical synthesis …

Glycyrrhetinic acid functionalized graphene oxide for mitochondria targeting and cancer treatment in vivo

C Zhang, Z Liu, Y Zheng, Y Geng, C Han, Y Shi, H Sun… - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Mitochondria‐mediated apoptosis (MMA) is a preferential option for cancer therapy due to
the presence of cell‐suicide factors in mitochondria, however, low permeability of …

Ultrafast subcellular biolabeling and bioresponsive real-time monitoring for targeting cancer theranostics

K Huang, Y Wang, Z Qin, H Liu, H Zhang, J Wang… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cell heterogeneity poses a formidable challenge for tumor theranostics, requiring high-
resolution strategies for intercellular bioanalysis between single cells. Nanoelectrode-based …

Phosphorescent Ir (III) complexes as cellular staining agents for biomedical molecular imaging

S Shaikh, Y Wang, F ur Rehman, H Jiang… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2020 - Elsevier
Phosphorescent Ir (III) complexes have attracted abundant attention in biomedical research
due to their wide ranging properties and organelle specific intracellular imaging. Various …