Novel self-assembled architectures have received significant interest in nanoscience and
nanotechnology. A large variety of nanostructures involving optimized sizes, morphologies …

Gold nanoclusters, consisting of a few to several hundred Au atoms with a core size below 2
nm, have attracted worldwide attention in the biomedicine because of their supernormal …

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 …

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are becoming increasingly popular as drug carriers due to their
unique properties such as size tenability, multivalency, low toxicity and biocompatibility …

Carbon dots (CDs) as a class of heavy-metal-free fluorescent nanomaterials has drawn
increasing attention in recent years due to their high optical absorptivity, chemical stability …

Conversion chemistry is a rapidly maturing field, where chemical conversion of template
nanoparticles (NPs) into new compositions is often accompanied by morphological …

Fluorescent gold nanoclusters (AuNCs) are emerging as novel fluorescent materials and
have attracted more and more attention in the field of biolabeling, biosensing, bioimaging …

Highly luminescent thiolated gold nanoclusters have been synthesized by “spatially
confining” the Au (I)-thiolate complexes in a biocompatible and biodegradable cationic …

Controlling the bimetal nanoparticle with atomic monodispersity is still challenging. Herein, a
monodisperse bimetal nanoparticle is synthesized in 25% yield (on gold atom basis) by an …

The use of carbon-dot-based dual-emission fluorescent nanohybrids (DEFNs) as versatile
nanothermometry devices for spatially resolved temperature measurements in living cells is …