Photoluminescent nanoparticles for chemical and biological analysis and imaging

WR Algar, M Massey, K Rees, R Higgins… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Research related to the development and application of luminescent nanoparticles (LNPs)
for chemical and biological analysis and imaging is flourishing. Novel materials and new …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced metal oxides nanostructures to recognize and eradicate water pollutants

U Chakraborty, G Kaur, HG Rubahn, A Kaushik… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
The excessive inlet of contaminants into water is affecting its quality adversely which is not
recommended for quality health. Therefore, investigating economical, scalable, efficient, and …

Energy transfer with semiconductor quantum dot bioconjugates: a versatile platform for biosensing, energy harvesting, and other develo** 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 …

Quantum dots: bright and versatile in vitro and in vivo fluorescence imaging biosensors

KD Wegner, N Hildebrandt - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have become important fluorescent probes for in vitro
and in vivo bioimaging research. Their nanoparticle surfaces for versatile bioconjugation …

Nanomaterials for biosensing applications: a review

M Holzinger, A Le Goff, S Cosnier - Frontiers in chemistry, 2014 - frontiersin.org
A biosensor device is defined by its biological, or bioinspired receptor unit with unique
specificities toward corresponding analytes. These analytes are often of biological origin like …

Quantum dots for Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET)

MC Dos Santos, WR Algar, IL Medintz… - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2020 - Elsevier
The analysis of biomolecular interactions using quantum dots (QDs) as both FRET donors
and acceptors has become an established technique in the life sciences. This development …

Application of semiconductor quantum dots in bioimaging and biosensing

IV Martynenko, AP Litvin, F Purcell-Milton… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

Relative and absolute determination of fluorescence quantum yields of transparent samples

C Würth, M Grabolle, J Pauli, M Spieles… - Nature protocols, 2013 - nature.com
Luminescence techniques are among the most widely used detection methods in the life
and material sciences. At the core of these methods is an ever-increasing variety of …

Functionalizing nanoparticles with biological molecules: develo** chemistries that facilitate nanotechnology

KE Sapsford, WR Algar, L Berti, KB Gemmill… - Chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Bionanotechnology has now become firmly established in its own right as one of the
principle and focused subdisciplines within nanotechnology.(1-10) Bionanotechnology can …

Biological applications of supramolecular assemblies designed for excitation energy transfer

HQ Peng, LY Niu, YZ Chen, LZ Wu, CH Tung… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Absorption of light by a molecule (donor, D) generates an excited state, which may
subsequently transfer the excitation to another chromophore (acceptor, A) in the vicinity …