Research related to the development and application of luminescent nanoparticles (LNPs)
for chemical and biological analysis and imaging is flourishing. Novel materials and new …

Counterfeiting and inverse engineering of security and confidential documents, such as
banknotes, passports, national cards, certificates, and valuable products, has significantly …

Polymer–drug conjugates have long been a mainstay of the drug delivery field, with several
conjugates successfully translated into clinical practice. The conjugation of therapeutic …

A facile approach for preparation of photoluminescent (PL) carbon dots (CDs) is reported.
The three resulting CDs emit bright and stable red, green and blue (RGB) colors of …

This article reviews activities related to a new photoluminescence phenomenon involving
inexplicable blue fluorescence emissions first observed in simple aliphatic amines and poly …

Speed, resolution and sensitivity of today's fluorescence bioimaging can be drastically
improved by fluorescent nanoparticles (NPs) that are many‐fold brighter than organic dyes …

This review discusses recent advances and the reported strategies over the last ten years on
the use of carbon-based quantum dots (QDs), including carbon dots (CDs), graphene …

As a new class of organic optical nanomaterials, semiconducting polymer nanoparticles
(SPNs) have the advantages of excellent optical properties, high photostability, facile …

Absorption of light by a molecule (donor, D) generates an excited state, which may
subsequently transfer the excitation to another chromophore (acceptor, A) in the vicinity …

Developing probes for the detection of reactive oxygen species (ROS), a hallmark of many
pathophysiological process, is imperative to both understanding the precise roles of ROS in …