The design of nanoparticles is critical for their efficient use in many applications ranging from
biomedicine to sensing and energy. While shape and size are responsible for the properties …

Super-resolution imaging techniques that overcome the diffraction limit of light have gained
wide popularity for visualizing cellular structures with nanometric resolution. Following the …

Suitable labels are at the core of luminescence and fluorescence imaging and sensing. One
of the most exciting, yet also controversial, advances in label technology is the emerging …

This important book focuses on the synthesis and fabrication of nanostructures and
nanomaterials, but also includes properties and applications of nanostructures and …

In the coming decade, the ability to sense and detect the state of biological systems and
living organisms optically, electrically and magnetically will be radically transformed by …

The predictable nature of DNA interactions enables the programmable assembly of highly
advanced 2D and 3D DNA structures of nanoscale dimensions. The access to ever larger …

Cytotoxicity of CdSe and CdSe/ZnS nanoparticles has been investigated for different surface
modifications such as coating with mercaptopropionic acid, silanization, and polymer …

A general strategy is described which allows for transferring hydrophobically capped
nanocrystals from organic to aqueous solution by wrap** an amphiphilic polymer around …

Fluorescent quantum dots (QDs), defined by a diameter size of< 10 nm, have been the core
concept of nanoscience and nanotechnology since their inception. QDs possess many …

In this review we present new concepts and recent progress in the application of
semiconductor quantum dots (QD) as labels in two important areas of biology, bioimaging …