Diamond has outstanding bulk properties such as super hardness, chemical inertness,
biocompatibility, luminescence, to name just a few. In the nanoworld, in order to exploit …

Advances in nanotechnology have great potential to address many unmet clinical and
biomedical needs. Nanodiamonds, as a class of carbon nanoparticles with unique …

Nanodiamonds exhibit exceptional colloidal properties in aqueous media that lead to a wide
range of applications in nanomedicine and other fields. Nevertheless, the role of surface …

Solvated electrons are highly reductive chemical species whose chemical properties remain
largely unknown. Diamond materials are proposed as a promising emitter of solvated …

Nanoparticles in solution interact with their surroundings via hydration shells. Although the
structure of these shells is used to explain nanoscopic properties, experimental structural …

Water interaction with surface modified nanodiamonds (NDs) is critical for many possible
applications of NDs eg in biomedicine. Here we report on investigation of water interaction …

Detonation nanodiamonds (DNDs) with a typical size of 5 nm have attracted broad interest
in science and technology. Further size reduction of DNDs would bring these nanoparticles …

Spalt-like transcription factor 4 (SALL4) is an oncofetal protein that has been identified to
drive cancer progression in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and hematological …

Water at the solid–liquid interface exhibits an anomalous ionic conductivity and dielectric
constant compared to bulk water. Both phenomena still lack a detailed understanding. Here …

Nanodiamonds are increasingly used in many areas of science and technology, yet, their
colloidal properties remain poorly understood. Here we use direct imaging as well as light …