As one of the most widely investigated matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), MMP-9 is a
significant protease which plays vital roles in many biological processes. MMP-9 can cleave …

Biomimetic science has attracted great interest in the fields of chemistry, biology, materials
science, and energy. Biomimetic mineralization is the process of synthesizing inorganic …

Metal nanoclusters (MNCs) have ultrasmall size (≤ 3 nm), precise molecular structure,
strong luminescence, size-sensitive physicochemical properties, engineerable metallic …

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

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 …

The use of metal nanoclusters as sensing probes has recently attracted considerable
interest from researchers. In particular, metallic nanoclusters (eg, Au, Ag, Cu, Pt) have been …

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

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 …

Although fluorescence-based analytical methods have been used in intracellular analyses,
their sensitivity is low for the precise analysis of intracellular proteolytic enzymes to observe …

This review is dedicated to a comprehensive description of the latest achievements in the
chemical functionalization routes and applications of carbon nanomaterials (CNMs), such as …