Peptides are emerging as a new class of biomaterials due to their unique chemical,
physical, and biological properties. The development of peptide-based biomaterials is …

Increasing interest in detecting metal ions in many chemical and biomedical fields has
created demands for developing sensors and imaging agents for metal ions with high …

Copper is a key metal ion both in environment monitoring and in biology, and exposure to
high concentration of copper can cause adverse health effects. Although significant …

The design and synthesis of a novel rhodamine spirolactam derivative and its application in
fluorescent detections of Cu2+ in aqueous solution and living cells are reported. The signal …

Of various chemosensory protocols, the color change observed by the naked eye is
considered to be a conceivable and on-site way to indicate the presence of an analyte. We …

We have synthesized a new indole functionalized rhodamine derivative L 1 which
specifically binds to Cu2+ in the presence of large excess of other competing ions with …

Monolayers of several peptide lipids at air− water and air− solid interfaces were prepared
using Langmuir and Langmuir− Blodgett (LB) film techniques, and tested as fluorescent …

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) strategy has been widely applied in
designing ratiometric probes for bioimaging applications. Unfortunately, for FRET systems …

A new highly selective colorimetric chemosensor 1 (E)-9-(((5-mercapto-1, 3, 4-thiadiazol-2-
yl) imino) methyl)-2, 3, 6, 7-tetrahydro-1H, 5H-pyrido [3, 2, 1-ij] quinolin-8-ol was designed …

For the highly selective and sensitive sensing of Hg2+ in water, a new design concept was
realized where the selectivity of the probe's binding site is amplified by electronic properties …