Organic ligands are essential in the growth of monodisperse colloidal inorganic
nanocrystals and can be leveraged to create a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Inorganic …

There is great need for stand-alone luminescence-based chemosensors that exemplify
selectivity, sensitivity, and applicability and that overcome the challenges that arise from …

What to measure? is a key question in nanoscience, and it is not straightforward to address
as different physicochemical properties define a nanoparticle sample. Most prominent …

Lead halide perovskite (LHP) nanocrystals (NCs) have recently garnered enhanced
development efforts from research disciplines owing to their superior optical and …

Self-assembly of various building blocks has been considered as a powerful approach to
generate novel materials with tailorable structures and optimal properties. Understanding …

The interactions between gold nanoparticles, their surface ligands and the solvent critically
influence the properties of these nanoparticles. Although spectroscopic and scattering …

Conspectus Gold nanorods (Au NRs) are an exceptionally promising tool in nanotechnology
due to three key factors:(i) their strong interaction with electromagnetic radiation, stemming …

Enzymes feature the concerted operation of multiple components around an active site,
leading to exquisite catalytic specificity. Realizing such configurations on synthetic catalyst …

Ligands are of tremendous importance for colloidal nanoparticles (NPs) in terms of surface
protection, size and shape control, tailoring properties, self-assembly, and applications …

Drug nanocarriers' surface chemistry is often presumed to be uniform. For instance, the
polymer surface coverage and distribution of ligands on nanoparticles are described with …