Tens of millions of contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams are
performed annually around the world. The contrast agents, which improve diagnostic …

Sensing of metal ions and anions is of great importance because of their widespread
distribution in environmental systems and biological processes. Colorimetric and fluorescent …

In an era of personalized medicine, the clinical community has become increasingly focused
on understanding diseases at the cellular and molecular levels. Magnetic resonance …

Self-assembled nanostructures of amphiphilic and double hydrophilic block copolymers
have been increasingly utilized as potent polymeric nanocarriers of therapeutic drugs …

In recent years, scientific advancements have constantly increased at a significant rate in the
field of biomedical science. Keeping this in view, the application of porphyrins and …

Metal ions and anions play important roles in many industrial and biochemical processes,
and thus it is highly desired to detect them in the relevant systems. Small organic molecule …

Recently, the use of phosphorescent heavy-metal complexes as chemosensors has
attracted increasing interest due to their advantageous photophysical properties. This critical …

Molecular imaging often relies on the use of targeted and activatable reporters to quantitate
and visualize targets, biological processes, and cells in vivo. The use of optical probes with …

Our desire to understand how the individual molecules that make up cells organize, interact,
and communicate to form living systems has led to the burgeoning field of chemical biology …

The conundrum of modality selection in clinical diagnostic imaging is that modalities with the
highest sensitivity have relatively poor resolution, while those with high resolution have …