Today, nanomedicine seeks to develop new polymer composites to overcome current
problems in diagnosing and treating common diseases, especially cancer. To achieve this …

Icephobic surfaces have a critical footprint on human daily lives ranging from aviation
systems and infrastructures to energy systems, but creation of these surfaces for low …

Interfacing inorganic nanoparticles and biological systems with the aim of developing novel
imaging and sensing platforms has generated great interest and much activity. However, the …

In recent years, polymer nanoparticles (PNPs) have found their ways into numerous
applications extending from electronics to photonics, conducting materials to sensors and …

The toxicity of quantum dots (QDs) has been extensively studied over the past decade.
Some common factors that originate the QD toxicity include releasing of heavy metal ions …

Surface coating determined the sensitivity and stability of surface-enhanced Raman
scattering (SERS) tags in bioanalysis. The reported various coatings suffered from the …

The implementation of plasmonic nanoparticles in vivo remains hindered by important
limitations such as biocompatibility, solubility in biological fluids, and physiological stability …

The polymeric functionalization of quantum dots via ligand exchange is a robust method for
the preparation of stable fluorescent particles with high quantum yields. For most biological …

Most applications of nanoparticles require robust stabilization, for example, by surface-
bound ligands or the encapsulation within polymer shells. Furthermore, for biomedical …

Nowadays developing fluorescent probes that are cheaper, nontoxic, robust and easy to use
for determination of heavy metal ions with high selectivity and sensitivity is still an ongoing …