Due to their atomically precise structures and intriguing chemical/physical properties, metal
nanoclusters are an emerging class of modular nanomaterials. Photo-luminescence (PL) is …

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 …

Fluorescence imaging in the second near‐infrared (NIR‐II) window facilitated by
aggregation‐induced emission luminogens (AIEgens) is an emerging research field. NIR‐II …

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-
associated (Cas) systems have revolutionized biological and biomedical sciences in many …

Singlet oxygen, O2 (a1Δg), the lowest excited electronic state of molecular oxygen, has
been known to the scientific community for∼ 80 years. It has a characteristic chemistry that …

The slow maturation time of fluorescent proteins (FPs) limits the temporal accuracy of
measurements of rapid processes such as gene expression dynamics and effectively …

A variety of genetically encoded reporters use changes in fluorescence (or Förster)
resonance energy transfer (FRET) to report on biochemical processes in living cells. The …

Shrinking conventional optical systems to chip-scale dimensions will benefit custom
applications in imaging, displaying, sensing, spectroscopy, and metrology. Towards this …

We recently developed adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsids to facilitate efficient and
noninvasive gene transfer to the central and peripheral nervous systems. However, a …

Many genetically encoded biosensors use Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) to
dynamically report biomolecular activities. While pairs of cyan and yellow fluorescent …