Fluorescence bioimaging is a powerful, versatile, method for investigating, both in vivo and
in vitro, the complex structures and functions of living organisms in real time and space, also …

Silicon quantum dots (SiQDs) hold great promise for many future technologies. Silicon is
already at the core of photovoltaics and microelectronics, and SiQDs are capable of efficient …

A variety of silicon-based nanostructures with dimensions in the 1–5 nm range now emit
tunable photoluminescence (PL) spanning the visible range. Achievement of high …

Offering mild, non-invasive and deep cancer therapy modality, radio frequency (RF)
radiation-induced hyperthermia lacks for efficient biodegradable RF sensitizers to selectively …

Diatoms are unicellular photosynthetic algae enclosed in porous 3D nanopatterned silica
enclosures called “frustules.” The diatom frustules are made from biosilica self‐assembled …

The last twenty years have witnessed great advances in biology, medicine, and materials
science, leading to the development of various nanoparticle (NP)-mediated drug delivery …

Luminescent porous silicon nanoparticles with mean size of about 100 nm were covered by
biodegradable polymer (dextran) and were investigated as potential sensitizers for …

Introduction: Porous silicon (pSi) engineered by electrochemical etching has been used as a
drug delivery vehicle to address the intrinsic limitations of traditional therapeutics …

In-vitro Raman micro-spectroscopy was used for diagnostics of the processes of uptake and
biodegradation of porous silicon nanoparticles (SiNPs) in breast cancer cells (MCF-7 cell …

Silicon nanostructures exhibit prominent properties in solar energy conversion, which
particularly offer tunable light harvesting and facile surface modification in comparison with …