Energy transfer with semiconductor quantum dot bioconjugates: a versatile platform for biosensing, energy harvesting, and other developing applications

N Hildebrandt, CM Spillmann, WR Algar, T Pons… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Luminescent semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are one of the more popular nanomaterials
currently utilized within biological applications. However, what is not widely appreciated is …

Carbon nanomaterials for biological imaging and nanomedicinal therapy

G Hong, S Diao, AL Antaris, H Dai - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Carbon nanomaterials are a class of low-dimensional materials that have aroused a great
deal of interest in the past 30 years since the spectacular debut of fullerene, the first member …

Epitaxial growth of hybrid nanostructures

C Tan, J Chen, XJ Wu, H Zhang - Nature Reviews Materials, 2018 - nature.com
Hybrid nanostructures are a class of materials that are typically composed of two or more
different components, in which each component has at least one dimension on the …

Nanomaterials for theranostics: recent advances and future challenges

EK Lim, T Kim, S Paik, S Haam, YM Huh… - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
In 2004, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released an important report entitled
“Innovation/Stagnation: Challenge and Opportunity on the Critical Path to New Medical …

State‐of‐the‐art progress in diverse heterostructured photocatalysts toward promoting photocatalytic performance

H Li, Y Zhou, W Tu, J Ye, Z Zou - Advanced Functional …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Semiconductor photocatalysts have received much attention in recent years due to their
great potentials for the development of renewable energy technologies, as well as for …

Recent advances in quantum dot-based light-emitting devices: Challenges and possible solutions

Z Yang, M Gao, W Wu, X Yang, XW Sun, J Zhang… - Materials Today, 2019 - Elsevier
Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) have been generating substantial interest due to their unique
properties, which include high quantum efficiency, high color purity, low-cost solution …

Synthesis, assembly, and applications of hybrid nanostructures for biosensing

S Zhang, R Geryak, J Geldmeier, S Kim… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The robust, sensitive, and selective detection of targeted biomolecules in their native
environment by prospective nanostructures holds much promise for real-time, accurate, and …

Chemistry of InP nanocrystal syntheses

S Tamang, C Lincheneau, Y Hermans… - Chemistry of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Chemically synthesized InP nanocrystals (NCs) are drawing a large interest as a potentially
less toxic alternative to CdSe-based nanocrystals. With a bulk band gap of 1.35 eV and an …

Prospects of colloidal nanocrystals for electronic and optoelectronic applications

DV Talapin, JS Lee, MV Kovalenko… - Chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Nanocrystals (NCs) discussed in this Review are tiny crystals of metals, semiconductors,
and magnetic material consisting of hundreds to a few thousand atoms each. Their size …

Anisotropic heavy-metal-free semiconductor nanocrystals: Synthesis, properties, and applications

L Liu, B Bai, X Yang, Z Du, G Jia - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Heavy-metal (Cd, Hg, and Pb)-containing semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) have been
explored widely due to their unique optical and electrical properties. However, the toxicity …