Nanocarbons with different dimensions (eg, 0D fullerenes and carbon nanodots, 1D carbon
nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons, 2D graphene and graphene oxides, and 3D …

Microscopy has gone hand in hand with the study of living systems since van Leeuwenhoek
observed living microorganisms and cells in 1674 using his light microscope. A spectrum of …

Nanodiamonds (NDs) have excellent mechanical and optical properties, large surface area,
easy bioconjugation and high biocompatibility, which makes them especially appealing for …

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 …

Carbon based nanomaterials have emerged over the last few years as important agents for
biomedical fluorescence and Raman imaging applications. These spectroscopic techniques …

Diamond has outstanding bulk properties such as super hardness, chemical inertness,
biocompatibility, luminescence, to name just a few. In the nanoworld, in order to exploit …

Introduction: The field of nanoparticle-based therapeutic systems is rapidly expanding
encompassing a wide variety of practices ranging from detection to diagnosis to treatment …

Beyond the sparkle, other properties of diamond have gained increasing attention in the
past few decades among chemists and physicists. Color centers impurities formed by one …

Nanodiamonds containing fluorescent nitrogen-vacancy centers are increasingly attracting
interest for use as a probe in biological microscopy. This interest stems from (i) strong …

This paper presents a new correlative bioimaging technique using Y2O3: Tm, Yb and Y2O3:
Er, Yb nanophosphors (NPs) as imaging probes that emit luminescence excited by both …