This review summarizes traditional and recent nonconventional, bioinspired, methods for the
aqueous synthesis of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). The basic chemistry …

Approximately 1.7 million new cases of cancer will be diagnosed this year in the United
States leading to 600 000 deaths. Patient survival rates are highly correlated with the stage …

Many challenges for advanced sensitive and noninvasive clinical diagnostic imaging remain
unmatched. In particular, the great potential of magnetic nano‐probes is intensively …

Light‐emitting semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) combined with magnetic resonance
imaging contrast agents within a single nanoparticle platform are considered to perform as …

Multimodal imaging is more suitable for disease diagnosis because of its ability to provide
more complementary and accurate information over single-mode imaging. Mn-doped …

Abstract Development of fluorophores with emission in the so‐called second near‐infrared
window (NIR‐II, 1000–1700 nm) represents an active area of the contemporary research …

Highlights•Pdots and QDs are bright emitters with low photobleaching rates.•Applications in
single particle tracking and cellular imaging.•QDs offer new opportunities for point-of-care …

Abstract Magnetically engineered Cd-free CuInS 2@ ZnS: Mn quantum dots (QDs) were
designed, synthesized, and evaluated as potential dual-modality probes for fluorescence …

This work reports the development of highly fluorescent materials for the selective and
efficient detection of picric acid explosive in the nanomolar range by fluorescence …

Advanced nanoplatforms equipped with different functional moieties for theranostics hold
appealing promise for resha** precision medicine. The reliable construction of an …